A Vow of Deception, A Vow of Revenge novel Chapter 228

She pulled a few tissues from the box on the coffee table, wiping away her tears as she tried to compose herself.

Winona waited patiently, not pressing her and giving her time.

It was a long while before Yvonne finally managed to calm down.

She spoke, her voice unsteady. “My husband, Brandon… three years ago, he got addicted to gambling. In less than a year, he’d lost everything—burned through all our savings and racked up a mountain of debt. Back then, I was in despair. I honestly thought about ending it all. The creditors never stopped coming to our door… they nearly took Lucy away from me.”

“Get to the point,” Elvis cut in coldly, his tone clipped.

He clearly didn’t care about their sob story.

Yvonne flinched, but pressed on. “Then one day, Brandon came running up to me and shoved a bank book into my hands. He told me someone had hired him to do a job. This was the down payment, he said. If he pulled it off, there’d be even more—enough to pay off all our debts, enough for us to move somewhere and start over.”

There was a million dollars in that account.

She was stunned. She kept demanding to know what he was planning, but Brandon wouldn’t tell her. He just kept saying he knew he’d made mistakes, that he wanted to make it right for me and for Lucy, that he’d make sure we could have a good life.

Yvonne knew, deep down, that for that kind of money, whatever Brandon was about to do couldn’t possibly be legal.

She wanted to stop him. But then she thought about how they couldn’t even afford food anymore, how the creditors were hounding them day and night, and how dangerous those people could be. Even if they tried to run, they’d be found eventually.

In a moment of weakness, she didn’t say anything else.

A few days later, Brandon came to her again, shaking uncontrollably. “I just hit someone with my car,” he blurted out. “The police will be here soon. Don’t worry—it’ll look like an accident to everyone else. I’ll do a few years in prison and get out. Tomorrow, someone will deposit money into your account, in a few separate transfers. Altogether, it should be two million. Pay off all my debts, get rid of the creditors, and then take Lucy and disappear somewhere. Wait for me—I’ll find you when I’m released.”

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