Lucinda told him everything that happened the day before when Natalie was taking Joe home.

Shane’s eyes widened in surprise. “You’re saying that your daughter’s not the culprit?”

“It’s not her.” Lucinda nodded, her eyes swollen red.

Shane narrowed his eyes at Natalie. “Why didn’t you tell me something as important as this?”

Natalie laughed haughtily at his accusation. “Do you think I didn’t want to? You didn’t even give me the chance to see you.”

Just thinking about Jacqueline at the door last night annoyed her to the core.

Shane frowned as he examined the anger and mockery on her face.

When he was about to respond, a prison guard walked up to them. “You can see Number 257 now.”

That was Alice’s number.

They did not use names in prison. Each inmate was assigned a number.

Lucinda glanced at Natalie. “Mrs. Thompson, we can see Alice now.”

“Let’s go.” Natalie nodded and followed the woman.

Shane

she asked him, “You

her,

silly of me! He’s obviously not pleased with me right now, so why did I even try being

detective agency was done with their investigation, she

So be it!

respond either and put on a

husband and wife, but at that moment they looked to be much more distant than a

want to admit that his attitude toward Natalie was not right, and continued

not so much that he loathed her because of Yulia. It made more sense to

he noticed that Natalie was letting him get a taste of his own medicine,

lot more

arrived at the prison’s visiting

Natalie saw Alice again.

paler and thinner than the first time Natalie met her, and was clearly malnourished. Her long hair had been cut off, leaving her nearly bald. To describe her as having one foot in the grave might not sound like an

down when she saw her daughter in such a

but, while her lips moved, she

Natalie picked up the phone and greeted the

stood behind her, his narrowed eyes gazing at the

really not the

of empty eyes, Alice

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