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.

downstairs, only to be confronted by an irate Margaret the

of the elevator.

“You’ve crossed the line!”

me, I caught her wrist

Christine’s situation, Margaret’s drama was

heart

there it was, that familiar black Maybach trailing my car, adding to

up to

let Margaret slap me without consequence, and now he was coming

I dialed his

came

“Jane, you flatter yourself.”

Chapter 58

He wanted to accompany me

paused, feeling as though she’d slapped

Right. She was correct.

now; I had been deluding myself for the

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

why

the police station in the

at the Ferguson Group earlier, still without a license plate, was now a wreck, almost reduced to scrap

a cop

Christine.

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