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–”

Briers, you’re

in therapy, the Ledger’s chopper made a little visit to

here comes Mister Kelvin Scruggs to fetch you, sporting

looking like he’s been roughed

and yanked back

The sight was startling.

patchwork of pain, his skin etched with the angry marks

brutal beating. Sores had opened up where his flesh had given way,

been a moment to

on even a

“Kelvin!”

broke, tears streaming down her face as she took

“Marcus did this, didn’t he? It had to be him! Let’s

don’t care about my acting career anymore, I

his face as he crouched on the ground, a

childlike

sobs.

but there she was, worried sick about

behalf.

was too much

Scruggs, I pride myself on being a good judge of character,

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Kelvin with a steady gaze. “Speak. How did Marcus get to you? It must be life

have turned on Miss Briers.

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

took my folks and used their lives to

back…”

was strangled by sobs, unable

“Alex.”

gotten out of the Porsche, standing by Alexander’s side, her

her

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