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

don’t push it!” Gracia snapped back,

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

in acknowledging Gracia’s pettiness and nodded to

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

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.

her eyebrows slightly,

see how much clout you have,” Gracia

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, with

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

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

cab, his emotions swirling. Natalie

Natalie 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

reply was brief.

pocketed her phone, she overheard the gardeners talking about Matthew coughing up blood the night before. He had terminal lung cancer, and it was beyond help. Every day alive

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