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 was

her head, she asked him, “You want

ignored her, his face

with me right now, so

agency was done with their investigation, she doubted that his attitude

So be it!

Natalie decided not to respond either and put on

they looked to be much more distant than

his attitude toward

because of Yulia. It made more sense to say that he simply did not know how

he noticed that Natalie was letting him get a taste of his own medicine, he did not like it one

a lot more sour because of

they arrived at

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

when she saw her daughter in such

console her mother but, while her

and greeted the woman

eyes gazing at

she really

a pair of empty eyes, Alice picked up

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