Jodie winced as Yancey squeezed her wrist, her eyes reddening as she tried to hold back her tears.

She then forced a tight smile and went over the timeline again.

Yancey finally let go of her wrist, and a faint smile appeared on his lips. "It's fine. You can go now."

Jodie glanced down at her pale wrist, where a bruise was forming. The pain made her eyes water.

"Yancey, what's wrong with you tonight? You're acting all weird and cryptic. I'm not playing with you anymore."

With that, she stormed off downstairs.

As soon as Yancey entered his room, he immediately called one of the business partners who had been at the dinner with Ethan.

The person had just finished the event and was back home, groggy and barely awake when he picked up.

"Is this Mr. Yancey?"

"Yeah, it's me. I need to ask you something. Did Grace have dinner with you tonight? Was my uncle there too? Do you remember when it ended?"

The business partner thought for a moment. "Around seven, I think. It was pretty much done by then. But Grace was acting kind of strange.

"I remember she didn't really like your uncle before. So, I was surprised to see her in the same private room with him this time."

He yawned loudly. "But hey, that's your family's business, not mine."

Yancey hung up the phone, his grip on it tightening.

The dinner had ended at 7:00 pm, and yet Grace didn't leave the hotel until after nine at night.

had she been doing during those two

his business dinner by seven, so he should've gone straight to meet

said he was late, barely ate anything,

if Yancey wasn't sharp, he couldn't ignore the

with a mark on

putting all the pieces together,

Ethan were definitely involved

chest tightened like a wild

something to quell the rising

he hurried downstairs and grabbed his car keys. He was going straight to where Grace

the doorbell

frowned, pulling her

hell was that? Were they out of their

fact, she even put on her

It was as though

started as ringing the doorbell soon escalated to him banging on the

of

at the end the hallway creaked open. Selene stood there, wearing a silk pajama set, Her

at this hour? If you're

widened in surprise when he saw her. "Selene?" Selene yawned and absentmindedly twirled a strand of her hair around

you need, talk about it tomorrow.

the adopted daughter of the Jensen family, and she had shown extraordinary business acumen from a young age, making her a powerful woman

rest of

highly wary of

liked the idea

their

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