Chapter 58

Now, with him making this simple request, I had no reason to refuse.

Bryant and I were already living separately anyway. A divorce paper was just a formality to make the separation clearer, nothing urgent.

Besides, Timothy’s eightieth birthday was just a month away. It would be here before we

knew it.

Gary walked me out of the study.

“Mr. Ferguson is just looking out for you and the young master, hoping you’d take some more time to think things over,” he said gently.

I was about to respond when my phone buzzed with a call.

An unknown landline number.

“Hello, is this a family member of Christine Jackson?”

“Yes, speaking.”

“We’re calling from the RiverCity Police Department. Could you come down here as soon as possible?”

Panic set in before I could even ask for details, and the line went dead.

by an irate Margaret the

of the elevator.

“You’ve crossed the line!”

attempted to slap me, I

situation, Margaret’s drama was the least

off her grip and strode away, my heart in turmoil over what could have happened

was, that familiar black Maybach trailing my

was Bryant up to this

really think I’d let Margaret slap me without consequence,

dialed his number, asking, “Why

woman’s scoff came through the

“Jane, you flatter yourself.”

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sugary sweet. “Bry is just worried about me. He wanted to

she’d slapped

Right. She was correct.

had been deluding myself for

at the police station, I didn’t even need to enter to know what Christine

why

the police station in the dead of

earlier, still without a license plate, was now

a cop

Christine.

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