Chapter 1007

Winnie nodded, indicating she understood.

After leaving the police station, she immediately called Lucas.

As if he had been expecting it, he answered almost instantly.

Though he wasn’t physically present, his subordinates had been reporting the situation to him in real time.

Khloe had personally asked him for help-there was no way he would allow anything to go wrong for Winnie.

But what Winnie wanted to ask about wasn’t anything else-it was Veronica.

In the original plan, Veronica hadn’t even been part of it. So when Mrs. Olson accused her earlier, she had been genuinely surprised. But this couldn’t possibly be a coincidence.

Lucas gave a faint smile, neither confirming nor denying. “They’re all enemies anyway. Taking care of them together just saves effort. Besides, she brought it on herself.”

When Mrs. Olson arranged for those men to humiliate Winnie, Veronica had been right there. The mother and daughter were equally malicious.

What they didn’t know was that the ones contacting those men were actually Lucas’s people.

evil. Without hesitation, he had

Veronica’s.

anything went wrong. If Veronica hadn’t

well. He could have stepped in to help her. But he chose not to

to Veronica? The police

wouldn’t know. They probably caught wind of

it

“Then… Veronica…”

thought of what those men intended to do still made her shudder. As a woman, she couldn’t

They wouldn’t want unnecessary trouble.

seemed to sense

overthink it. She walked into it herself-whatever happens, she has no one else to blame.

respond, he had already hung

the way back, she

of everything. Her communication with Lucas

confirming that Winnie was safe, Khloe let out a long breath of reliet. If it hadn’t been absolutely necessary, she would never have wanted Winnie to put herself in

so, she felt

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