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.

noticed that Shane

head, she asked him, “You

her,

pleased with me right now, so why did I even try being

investigation, she doubted that his attitude toward her

So be it!

Natalie decided not to respond either and put

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

admit that his attitude toward Natalie

because of Yulia. It made more sense to say that he simply did

when he noticed that Natalie was letting him get a taste

a lot more sour because of

arrived at the

Natalie saw Alice again.

met her, and was clearly malnourished. Her long hair had been cut off, leaving

her

so much to console her mother but, while her

the phone and greeted the woman inside, “Hi, do

her, his narrowed eyes

really not the

pair of empty eyes, Alice picked up the phone too. “Yes,

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