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The next day, Zoe and Malcolm were already on their way to India in his newly acquired private jet, which now bore his name instead of the family’s name. She hadn’t slept the entire night since she heard the news about Audrey, and they were on their way to see her. Through the trip, she remained nervous, her heart skipping incessantly, with the thought that she was going to see her friend whom she thought was long dead, and had mourned endlessly. ‘She was truly still alive,’ Zoe continued to question and pinch herself to believe it was true, because it felt like a dream she could wake up from at any moment. She could remember that the hospital had been instructed to bury her since she was dead by Irina Meyer after her death was announced, and that no one in the family had been interested in claiming her dead body, making Zoe privy to where she was even buried. ‘So Malcolm had been the one who took her body?’ Those thoughts continued to move through her mind, as her head rested on

Zoe leaned against her office desk, breathing slowly through her discomfort as she frowned endlessly. Three months of forced bed rest had left her restless and itching to get back into her rhythm. She rubbed her temples, as frustration sat tight in her chest. And for the past week, she could finally step foot in her own company building again, even if she had to sneak in every day like a runaway heiress. And of course, her new secretary, the third in two months, who was so clumsy, was still scrambling like a startled chick. “Miss Zoe! I cannot find the.. the pearl-trim blazer. Oh wait, oh my God, I think I saw it in the boardroom…” Zoe exhaled through her nose, her eyes narrowing, and her teeth clenching furiously, “Why,” she said slowly, trying to breathe and contain her anger, “Would my blazer be in the boardroom?” “I…” Mia paused to think, “I.. someone brought clothes there for a meeting prep… No, I think it is not there,” she laughed awkwardly, and Zoe could not believe that sh