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.

a dog would get upset by that.” Natalie said, the corners of

back, and her brows knitted

shop assistant quickly tried to mediate. “Don’t worry about it. It was our mistake

Gracia’s pettiness and nodded to the

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

stood by, not daring

assistant?” Natalie turned to Gracia. “If they don’t want to repack it, that’s fine. You can pick up the pizza.

Gracia raised her

to see how much clout you

dialed 911. “Let’s deal with this at the police station. I’m

murmur,

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she quickly grabbed her hand. Turning to the assistant,

later, Natalie left the shop, content with her freshly packed pizza, ignoring Gracia, whose face had

her get into the cab, his emotions swirling. Natalie seemed different than

approached 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

was

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

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