eavy with tired surrender. "Fine.

tretched both hands toward him, plainly as

..

ber arranged by Daniel, and when she reached the door to the

son she was about

l, the door swung open, and he court

ly reminding herself to be fear

loser to where D

s and fixed his gaze

via, terrified the little girl might

rtably on the sofa, cheerfully enjoying

lly falling apart outside, yet Olivia was insi

Madison quickly stepped for

son, she nearly called out "Aunt Madison", but M

s pretending to be her mother, she caught the hint at

tely pulled her

them quietly. "Y

stare, Madison felt her pulse

es. I already know what happened. Any dam

if he were attempting to

who spoke to me on t

p her identity from unraveling. "Sir, I was the one who ans

kept watching her, the unspoken pre

mly, "you can call that number

und Madison's neck and ask

inish handling this with him first, an

challenge Madison's claim, especially si

your daughter scrawled those words on my car, accusing me of being a heart

r several times before, though that had been six or sev

k your car for someone

meone else's?" Daniel

my mother passed away, he was busy celebrating his mistress's birthday instead. After I found out, I left him and took our c

nt bore an unsettling resemblance to an incident from years ago, the time Emilia's

red through his mind that Madison might know so

d never kept a mistress. Nor did he possess the fainte

uldn't possibly be taunting him and that h

usible enough that Daniel found n

Olivia, an odd and persistent sense of fam

o press the matter further, Archie walked in holding a file that contained someone

melia's

ve things I need to take care of. I'll pay for the

g the file from Archie, he said in a firm to

," Archie

d the file with hi

of panic, because more than twenty minutes had already

sy man to handle and feared Madiso

of you tell what's going

omputers, and Leo in particular had a kna

re were no cameras inside the hotel rooms, they

ap into the surveillance

nd said, "Aunt Madison went into

ease grew e

rried out of a suite with

them," As

ht of Olivia, a powerful sen

n, and Madison quickly slip

s she instantly gathered

tely tucked herself aga

long breath. "That

lia asked with worry

l explain everything on

" Emilia

in the back seat an

iel gazed at the file