Chapter 0304

With a jolt, the scene kicks off.

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Kelvin felt a shiver run through his scalp. Like a puppet on strings, he turned stiffly to face Alexander,

who

wore a slight, knowing smile. Struggling, Kelvin managed to force a weak grin. “Sir, are you pulling my

leg?”

“Benefits? Threats Wanda’s more family to me than my own sister, and I…”

Mid–sentence, Kelvin snapped out of it, backpedaling fast. “Why the heck do I owe you an

explanation? Wanda’s business is her own!”

However, Alexander just chuckled.

Poor Kelvin, Wanda’s agent, was no Oscar winner. His fear was too raw, his act too rough around the

edges. Since Andrew, Hec, and Hunter had skedaddled, Alexander had dug up everything there was to

know about the Ledgers.

Marcus Ledger, the family’s third son, was a piece of work. He was cruel, the type who had never let

Wanda slip through his fingers.

“Alex, what in the world are you saying?”

Wanda, standing by Kelvin, had overheard their exchange and was shaking her head in dismay.

“You’ve got it all wrong about Kelvin. He’s not like that. We’re practically like family–”

soft chuckle, Alexander interjected, “Miss Briers, you’re probably

made a

Kelvin Scruggs to fetch you, sporting

looking like he’s been roughed

stepped closer and yanked back Kelvin’s

The sight was startling.

was a patchwork of pain, his skin etched with

up where his flesh

been a moment to

even

“Kelvin!”

streaming down her face as she

had to be him! Let’s go to the cops,

don’t care about my acting career anymore, I don’t care about anything–I’m ready to take him

crumpled, his hands covering his face as he crouched on the ground, a grown man reduced

childlike

sobs.

turned his back on Wanda, but there she was, worried sick about him, ready to go

behalf.

empathy was too much

a good judge of character, and you’re

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“Speak. How did Marcus get to you? It must

turned on Miss Briers. I bet

and fear for his parents, wept openly. “I just

He’s ruthless! He took my folks and used their lives

back…”

strangled by

“Alex.”

gotten out of

her

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