Chapter 15

It just happened that they’d been waiting for ages at The Aerie, hoping to catch a glimpse of the clusive FireWing, but to no avail. They planned to swing by the Wright family for lunch, so Brian had instructed him to pick up a couple of boxes of pastries from here.

“Mr. Howard, would you like…”

Brian’s gaze settled on Natalie, and he fell silent in the car.

Natalie’s paper bag had been knocked from her hands, and as she looked up, her eyes flicked toward Gracia, who had pretended to be engrossed in her phone, feigning ignorance.

“Pick it up.” Natalie said in a low voice, devoid of emotion.

Instead, Gracia stepped on the pizza, kicking it aside.

“I said pick it up, not step on it.” Natalie continued, her voice still low.

“Are you talking to me?” Gracia acted surprised, pointing at herself and asking softly.

“I’m talking to a dog.” Natalie replied coldly.

“You…” Gracia was stunned, and then anger flared within her.

said, the

it!” Gracia snapped back, and her

altercation, the shop assistant quickly tried to mediate. “Don’t worry about it. It was our mistake for not handing it to the customer properly. Let me repack it

wasn’t interested in acknowledging Gracia’s pettiness and nodded

indifference, insisted. “I’d like to

stood by, not daring to

shop assistant?” Natalie turned to Gracia. “If they don’t want

raised her eyebrows

much clout you have,” Gracia thought

won’t enjoy your lunch today.” As Natalie spoke, she pulled out her phone and dialed 911. “Let’s deal with this at the police station. I’m not bothered.

began to murmur,

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when she saw Natalie’s finger hovering over the call button, she quickly grabbed her hand. Turning to the assistant, she commanded sternly. “Are you blind? Repack a new one,

shop, content with her freshly packed pizza, ignoring Gracia, whose face had turned a shade of thunder. She

cab, his emotions

the Wright family’s front door, her phone buzzed with a message from King. (They’ve upped their offer to twenty times the original. Do you

reply was

about Matthew coughing up blood the night before. He had terminal lung cancer, and it was

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