CHAPTER 121 — Noon Has TeethMelissa did not sleep.She lay awake with the photograph resting on the bedside table, face turned down as if it could watch her otherwise. Every few minutes, memory pressed forward her mother’s laugh, the softness in her voice, the way Alice had always stood just a little too close, smiling too much, speaking too sweetly.By dawn, Melissa had already decided.Noon would not be a negotiation. It would be a reckoning.Evelyn arrived just after eight, coat already on, hair immaculate, eyes sharp.“You’re not going alone,” she said, not asking.Melissa poured coffee. “I didn’t say I was.”Evelyn nodded once. “Good.”She slid a thin folder across the table. “We pulled everything we could overnight. Connor Holdings is bleeding quietly. Tyrone masked it well, but his offshore links are unraveling. He’s desperate.”Melissa opened the folder, scanning fast. “Desperate men take risks.”“And hurt people,” Evelyn added.Melissa looked up. “He already has.”She turned
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