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.

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

push it!” Gracia snapped back, and her brows knitted

the 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 for

pettiness

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

by, not daring

kind of skill is that by picking on a shop assistant?” Natalie turned to Gracia. “If they don’t want to repack it, that’s fine. You can pick up

her eyebrows slightly,

want to see how much

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. But for you, Gracia,

began to murmur,

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finger hovering over the call button, she quickly grabbed her hand. Turning to

packed pizza, ignoring Gracia, whose face had turned a shade of thunder.

into the cab, his emotions

King. (They’ve upped their offer to twenty times the original. Do you want to take

was

coughing up blood the night before. He had terminal lung cancer, and it was beyond help. Every day alive was a

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