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

of the elevator.

“You’ve crossed the line!”

slap me, I

Christine’s situation, Margaret’s drama was the least of my

and strode away, my heart in turmoil over what

black Maybach trailing my car, adding to

up to

think I’d let Margaret slap me without consequence, and now he was coming to

I dialed his number, asking, “Why

woman’s scoff came through the

“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 nothing to do with

as though she’d slapped me

Right. She was correct.

just now; I had been deluding myself for the past

need to enter to

why

the police station in the dead of

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

a cop

Christine.

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