Chapter 557

She locked eyes with them, her gaze sharp as a knife, “Go ahead, let’s see who really gets the short end of the stick when this all comes out in the wash.” With that, she turned on her heel and left.

Ferris‘ voice drifted after her, “You see that, officers? Maja’s got some nerve, acting like she’s above the law.”

Even though Maja had presented evidence of Ferris’s extramarital affair, it only painted him in an immoral light, not a criminal one. The cops couldn’t do much about that even if they wanted to.

Maja slid into the passenger seat of the car, where Zoey was sitting.

Even outside the car, Zoey could still hear Ferris’s voice.

“Ms. Pennyfeather, what’s our next move? Ferris isn’t letting up on making this a big deal online.”

Maja leaned back in her seat, already drained and now having to deal with that.

“We’re stuck. Even if we find evidence of Ferris‘ domestic abuse, with May refusing to press charges, it’s basically just ‘marital issues‘.”

Zoey, though an outsider, was left speechless with anger! After a while, she asked, “So if Ferris actually killed May, not only would he not be convicted, but he’d also get a payout from us?”

Maja nodded, and heard her angrily say, “What a world we live in!”

one signing your hospital papers or downplaying their abuse of you. I tried to warn May, but she’d gotten so used to Ferris’s violence

is no good. With the money he’s getting from you, I bet he’s keeping other women. How

“Ten million.”

of money. Ferris had already milked the Pennyfeather family to pay his mortgage. With

bodyguards. The Miller family’s guards were reliable and professional, ready to jump in when the chips were down.

know The cops didn’t have the evidence to act, but Maja couldn’t sit on her hands any longer. Even considering May never spilled the beans about the Pennyfeathers to Ferris during all her years working for

two brothers who had planned to hit the internet cafe were taken by Miller’s were scared out of their wits.

guards to split the

never been through

cool better than the younger one. He was scared, but he didn’t show younger brother.

younger brother was shaking like a leaf, so scared

it

like

decided

Her disgust.

with a thick black cloth. He saw nothing

was a pro at

of thing.

don’t spill

his fear. He curled up into a ball, shaking uncontrollably,

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