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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.

confronted by an irate Margaret

of the elevator.

“You’ve crossed the line!”

slap me, I caught her

mind was preoccupied with Christine’s situation, Margaret’s drama was the least

heart

black Maybach trailing my

Bryant up

he really think I’d let Margaret slap me without

light, I dialed his number, asking,

came

“Jane, you flatter yourself.”

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tone sugary sweet. “Bry is just worried about me. He wanted to accompany me to the police station. This has

she’d slapped me

Right. She was correct.

wasn’t just now; I had been deluding myself for the

police station, I didn’t even need to enter to know

why

to the police station in

without a license plate, was now a

a cop led

Christine.

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