Lahat ng Kabanata ng The Runaway Heiress:Seven Days of Sin: Kabanata 541 - Kabanata 550

Adelaide The crackling fire soothed me as I drifted in and out of sleep. I was growing stronger with each day, but I'd still spent nearly two weeks in bed, mostly drugged to the point of unconsciousness. As the hours and days passed, I recalled bits and pieces of the detoxification. More than once

Oren reached for the remote and turned off the television. When he turned back, the glow of the fire as his backdrop, I stared deeply into his eyes. The blue glistened with the reflection of the fire as the gray beyond the windows grew darker. "In all the years, did I ever tell you about my mother?

I lifted my head. "Why would he show his hand?" "What do you mean?" "He could have had Chelsea on the stand and taken that line of questioning. If he had, he could have, at the very least, established a shred of doubt in the prosecution's case, made the jury question her alibi, especially with the

"Delusional. I have medical records. I have proof. The doctors will all testify to your incompetence." "That's wonderful. I have doctors, too. I have proof, too. They ran tests. I won't say more because I won't waste my breath. Just know that I've seen the entire will, including the part you didn't

"So it's all mine. End of story?" "That would be too simple. Look at the next section." This wasn't the first time or even the tenth time that Nox and I had mulled over this document. I knew I wasn't an attorney yet, but some of the wording seemed inconsistent to me, at best. Once the age or degr