hapter 68 A Mysterious Invitation
Nadine voice was soft, but there was a strange chill beneath it.
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Zane took it as nothing more than a polite farewell. After hanging up, he dismissed the lingering sense of unease that had started to stir.
Nadine, on the other hand, could no longer maintain her smiling façade. The moment she put down the phone, her expression twisted with rage, and she swept the stack of documents off her desk with a loud crash.
Finn had gone to see Tess–and worse, he’d penalized Nadine’s bonus and handed it to Tess as a trust fund.
Her whole body trembled with fury, her eyes burning red with rage.
How?! Tess isn’t that brilliant, dazzling attorney anymore. She’s a washed–up ex–con with a criminal record!
But then, a wave of panic rose in Nadine’s chest.
Wait! Tess and Finn haven’t officially divorce…
Her palms broke out in a cold sweat.
When she looked up again, a dangerous glint had replaced the fury in her eyes.
Tess had no idea she was being watched. After collecting the 30,000 dollars from the trust fund, she returned to her hotel.
But as she neared her hotel room, something odd caught her
eye.
A stranger stood just down the hall. The moment he saw her, he rushed over and slipped a note into her hand before vanishing without a word.
Confused. When she looked up again, the stranger touch.
already gone. Only the note in her hand remained warm from his
Her alert flared. A warning alarm sounded in her mind. But when her eyes skimmed over the contents of the note, her pupils
shrank.
She sucked in a few sharp breaths, trying to suppress her shock, and quickly stuffed the note into her palm before heading
inside.
It said, “Tomorrow. Highland Hotel. The case file you want will be there.”
The case file…
Tess’s breathing quickened.
She wasn’t a lawyer anymore, but there was only one case file she desperately wanted to see the one connected to the nightmare that sent her to prison a year ago.
That disaster had hit her out of nowhere. Even now, she didn’t know the full truth–but she was sure of one thing: it hadn’t been a coincidence.
Her hand tightened into a fist, her heart racing,
Who had sent this note? And what were they after? The messenger had only been the delivery guy. The real sender remained
in the shadows.
A thousand tangled thoughts surged in her mind, forming a knot of doubt and questions.
She couldn’t tell if this was a trap or the lifeline she’d been waiting for.
But what she did know was this–she was tired of living under the weight of a crime she never committed.
She wasn’t just herself. She was Layla’s mom
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Chapter 68 A Mysterious Invitation
That changed everything; she cared about her reputation.
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