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–”

“Miss Briers, you’re probably clueless that while

the Ledger’s chopper made a little visit to snatch you

hours later, here comes Mister Kelvin Scruggs to fetch you, sporting a fresh bruise

looking like he’s been roughed up,

and yanked

The sight was startling.

was a patchwork of pain, his skin etched with the

brutal beating. Sores had opened up where his

been a moment to

even

“Kelvin!”

face as she

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

my acting career anymore, I don’t care

he crouched on

childlike

sobs.

on Wanda, but there she was,

behalf.

pain of empathy was

on being a good judge of character,

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did Marcus

have turned on Miss Briers. I bet it’s…your

his parents, wept openly. “I just

took my folks and used their

back…”

voice was strangled by sobs, unable

“Alex.”

also gotten out of the Porsche, standing

her

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