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Chapter 131

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Chapter 131

Emily Caldwell's hands shook as she lifted the crystal tumbler to her lips. The whiskey burned her throat, but not as much as the words she had just heard on the phone. Charles Jones was cooperating with federal prosecutors. Charles Jones was going to testify against her.

The news had come from her lawyer an hour ago. Now she sat in the mansion's library, surrounded by empty bottles and the ruins of everything she had built over thirty years.

"That backstabbing rat," Emily spat, throwing the glass against the wall. Crystal shards scattered across the Persian rug like broken dreams. "After everything I did for him."

She reached for another bottle of whiskey, her movements clumsy and desperate. The alcohol dulled the sharp edges of her rage, but it couldn't stop the fear that gnawed at her chest. Jones knew everything. Every phone call, every plan, every crime they had committed together.

The library door burst open. Richard Caldwell stood in the doorway, his face twisted wi
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