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Chapter 31: A Gossip Woman's Opinion
---Andrew was still beaming, completely unaware of the structural problems underneath the moment. Lily had settled into his side with the satisfied energy of someone who had gotten what she came for.Margaret watched them from across the room and quietly began calculating how long she could keep the lid on before everything collapsed.Not her problem for tonight. Tonight she would enjoy the peace.---Back at Panlong Villa, Trevor was on the sofa with a glass of lemon honey water Diana had pressed into his hands the moment they walked through the door."You must have been so scared in that interrogation room," Diana said, settling across from him with her own glass and the expression of someone who had definitely been the scared one."I think you mean yourself," Trevor said.Diana looked at the floor briefly. "I was a little scared.""You were locked in a detention room by Deputy Garrett and Frederick combined. Being scared was the appropriate response.""I wasn't that scared." She l
Chapter 30: Everyone's Running a Con
--- Scarlett turned on Garrett with the full weight of her frustration finding a new target. "And you." She pointed at him without looking at Frederick or Margaret. "I've told you before about dealings with people like this. Cut contact. Completely. Are we clear?" Garrett nodded repeatedly with the energy of a man who understood his position perfectly. Scarlett grabbed Elizabeth by the arm and pulled her toward the office before anyone else could complicate the situation further. --- Inside, she closed the door and dropped the professional mask entirely. "Did you find anything? About whoever broke Scorpio's arm?" Elizabeth settled into the chair across from her. "Nothing. Whoever it was left no trace worth following." Scarlett chewed on that for a moment. "Has to be someone operating outside the normal circles. Nobody we've catalogued." "Probably." Elizabeth didn't seem particularly troubled by the mystery. Scarlett let it go for now and shifted forward in her seat with an
Chapter 29: Old Scores
---The detention room door swung open hard enough to announce itself.The officer inside, Deputy Garrett, turned with a ready scowl that dissolved the moment he saw who had walked in.Elizabeth crossed the room without acknowledging him and stopped in front of Diana."Have they touched you?"Diana grabbed her arm immediately. "Sister Elizabeth, please get my brother out. They're planning to bury both of us in here permanently, Frederick and Anne are behind it—""Slow down." Elizabeth looked at Garrett directly. "Deputy captain. Using your position to process arrests without proper investigation. That's a serious charge."Garrett's hands came up. "Sister Elizabeth, this is a complete misunderstanding. She attacked first and caused injury to—""She is my friend." Elizabeth's voice didn't rise. It didn't need to. "So I know exactly what happened. Don't explain things to me that I already know are false."Garrett went quiet immediately.Frederick, standing slightly behind him, had gone v
Chapter 28: Like Brother, Like Sister
---Outside the security building, Diana stood at the gate alone.She had tried to go in after Trevor was taken and been turned away the moment she mentioned his name. Now she was standing on the pavement doing the one thing she was worst at.Waiting while lost deep in thought.Suddenly two familiar voices broke through her thoughts from behind.Finding the voices familiar, she turned towards them and in an instant her heart skipped a beat. Anne was pushing Frederick toward the entrance in a wheelchair, both of them moving with the focused purpose of people who believed they were about to win something.Diana went still.Frederick noticed her at almost the same moment. His eyes moved over her with visible surprise first — her legs, working and steady beneath her — and then with something considerably less appropriate replacing the surprise almost immediately.Whatever was happening in his head, his body disagreed with the timing. He went pale, grabbed the wheelchair arms with both ha
Chapter 27: Two Brushes
---Scarlett glanced at Margaret without particular interest."Don't worry. Just cooperate with the investigation."She signaled her team. Two officers stepped forward and the group moved out together."Brother!"Diana reached for Trevor's arm as they led him toward the door.Trevor looked back at her with a calm smile. "Stay home and wait. I'll be fine."Diana watched the vehicle pull away and immediately pulled out her phone."Sister Elizabeth! They just took my brother!""What happened?" Elizabeth's voice sharpened instantly. It was the first time Diana had called her directly in three years of having the number.Diana ran through everything quickly, her voice tight with urgency. "Please help him. You know he didn't do anything wrong."A pause."I can't promise anything until I understand the full situation." The line went dead before Diana could respond.She stared at her phone for a moment, then started walking toward the security office herself. Sitting at home and waiting was n
Chapter 26: The Audacity of Some People
---Diana fastened the silver bangle back around her wrist and nodded firmly."Never again. I promise.""Good. Let's go."Trevor was already moving toward the door when it opened from the outside.He stopped.Standing at the entrance were two people he had not expected to see. Anne and her mother Margaret.Anne looked considerably worse than she had at her own wedding yesterday. The kind of worse that came from a night spent without sleep, turning something over and over without resolution. Her lips were pale and her eyes carried the careful arrangement of someone who had prepared what they were going to say.Margaret stood slightly behind her, expression tight."Lin— Trevor." Anne corrected herself quickly. "Can we speak inside? There's something I need to discuss.""Whatever you have to say, say it here. I'm taking Diana out."Anne's eyes moved to Diana and went wide."Your legs. They're healed?"She knew about the injury. Knew the full extent of it. Comminuted fractures in both leg
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