Chapter 2052
After Cecilia left the detention wing, Norman fell into step just behind her, his briefcase clutched like a shield.
"Could you draft a settlement agreement? I want the court to consider a light sentence for Scorpius."
"Of course," Norman replied with a single, solemn nod.
They slid into the back seat of the sedan, doors thudding shut against the gray afternoon.
Cecilia leaned back, eyelids sliding down as fatigue pooled behind her eyes and darkness swirled, merciful and silent.
Time blurred until her phone shrilled. She jerked awake, glanced at the screen, and saw it was the director of the psychiatric hospital calling.
"Hello? What is it?"
"Ms. Smith, the patient named Stella Ross insists on seeing you. How would you like us to proceed?"
Cecilia's lips curved, the smile cold enough to frost glass.
"Still pretending she's unstable, is she?"
"She seems far more lucid now-probably dropped the act," the director answered.
"Understood."
She had assumed Stella could keep the charade alive indefinitely. Apparently, the walls of a psychiatric ward were rougher than the fantasy she'd woven for herself.
"Driver, to the
look Stella in the eye
little to her now-hardly more than a shadow
forgotten
met her reckoning. Perhaps Stella's turn
psychiatric hospital, the air smelled of
every inch
yet?" Stella asked, voice shaking so hard each syllable barely
a measured smile. "Ms.
ward like
reverence in that single title, and jealousy flared so hot it scorched her
thin bitter
thriving now, isn't
muttered. s
pupils were dull, unfocused, as though someone had blown out the candle behind them. You thought playing insane would buy you time, a quiet hideaway. Instead, every hour in this place has been a slow, exquisite torture.
spoke
nodded briskly. "Exactly. She never once seemed like
up the corridor. "Director-Ms. Smith has
"Understood."
coat, the director strode off to
all, was a friend of Zachary-the director's immediate
over her was the safest insurance
the sleek sedan that had just rolled to a
out, business heels clicking on the
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