The threat in the air was palpable.

Hollis could tell immediately-this was not a man he could afford to cross.

After a long while, Timothy stepped out of the visiting room, his chest tight, as if an invisible hand was squeezing the breath from his lungs.

That stormy night in the capital... she must have been terrified.

She'd called him for help, and he hadn't made it to her side.

Only now did he realize: she'd watched her mother jump to her death, then spent the entire night locked in the house by her father as thunder crashed outside. The shock and fear had robbed her of speech.

Everyone dismissed her as mute, but not a single person ever stopped to ask why she couldn't speak.

As for how she ended up with the Greene family...

That was another heartbreak entirely.

At least she'd found her grandmother.

"Mr. Lawson, about your father-in-law-"

"Enough. He's no father-in-law of mine!"

Jessica's adoptive mother had been driven to her death by that man.

With a trembling voice, Timothy bit out, "He's only got two or three months left on his sentence. Pay whatever it takes to get him released early and send him out of the country. The farther, the better."

He was just about to leave when Vince's car pulled up.

Jessica and Vince stepped out together.

Vince felt a pang of guilt toward Jessica. She'd come to him for help to find her birth father, and he'd already started the search.

Fortunately, with a name, photo, and details, it hadn't been hard. He'd found the man was locked up here and brought Jessica along.

The moment Vince saw Timothy, his expression tightened.

it could only

Vince demanded, "What are

coming. Had he overheard her conversation with Vince, then

refused

came to

nerve calling him

arguing with Vince. Instead, he fixed his gaze on Jessica, his

that night, during

over Jessica. She cut

by the fluency

her hopes on him, dialing his number in

But he hadn't come.

the airport, buying a brooch

can talk. You really can talk now,"

stood frozen, surprised that her throat

of

up at Timothy in his

to

coldly. "Oh, you went to

She scoffed.

went. I saw

Not only

the

stock

swan brooches. Then you

all

"Timothy, you really do have a knack

exactly the right moment."

what

not what

that Jessica could speak, she caught every word, no longer unable to respond as she once had no

gaze hardened,

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