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.

upset by that.” Natalie said, the corners of her mouth

push it!” Gracia snapped back, and her

it. It was our mistake for not handing

interested in acknowledging Gracia’s pettiness

who got irked by Natalie’s indifference, insisted. “I’d like to see who dares

by, not daring to

of skill is that by picking on a shop assistant?” Natalie turned to Gracia. “If they don’t

what?” Gracia raised her eyebrows slightly,

how much clout you have,” Gracia thought

As Natalie spoke, she pulled out her phone and dialed 911. “Let’s deal with this at the police station. I’m not bothered. But for you, Gracia, with your big

murmur, some

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she quickly grabbed her hand. Turning to the assistant, she commanded sternly. “Are you

shop, content with her freshly packed pizza, ignoring Gracia, whose face had turned

cab, his

her phone buzzed with a message from King. (They’ve upped their offer to twenty times the original. Do you want to take

reply was brief. [No

phone, she overheard the gardeners talking about Matthew coughing up blood the night before. He had terminal lung cancer,

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