Semua Bab My Fiancé's Uncle is Obsessed With Me!: Bab 101 - Bab 105

Adrian The message came through before I finished my tea.I didn’t need to check the sender to know who it was. There were only a handful of people who would respond that quickly after leaving a negotiation table, and Frederick Hawthorne was one of them. A man like him didn’t delay decisions once he had made them—he acted.He's efficient, and that's why I work with him.I picked up my phone and opened the message."Done. She'll leave the country within forty-eight hours."Make it twenty four, and I can promise a 15% increase"His reply came almost immediately, "Deal"I smiled, setting the phone aside, reaching for my cup again. The tea had gone slightly warm, but I didn’t mind. Forty-eight was good.Twenty-four was better.The longer Vivian stayed in the country, the more room there was for disruption. With her cornered, she had the tendency to become reckless, that much was obvious from her stupid scheme at the party, I didn't want her causi g more problems.I stood, straightening

Emily Within a month of gaining my own people into key positions, I had enough evidence on my table to bury my father ten times over. Not just the embezzlement scheme I'd originally been chasing, but something far worse. Something that made my hands shake when I spread the papers out at 2 AM, alone in the study, with Adrian fast asleep in bed.My mother hadn't jumped. She'd been pushed. I already had doubts. But holding the medical report. I could feel tears stinging my eyes. I read it again, even though I'd already memorized every word. Adrian had pulled strings with his contacts at the police department to get it for me. Four months pregnant. She was four months pregnant when she died, carrying a child my father probably found a nuisance. Her fingerprints were found on the balcony railing, yes, but the bruising pattern on her arms told a different story. Someone had grabbed her. Hard. And the button clutched in her hand—a brass button from a suit jacket—matched the one missing from