Her smile stiffened, her eyes flickering evasively.
“That man… we haven’t been in contact since you got married. He liked you, not me. How could he ever lower himself to reach out through me?”
I chuckled softly.
“You really think I don’t know you’ve been secretly updating him about me all these years?”
“But you once said the Hughes family wasn’t clean either—that they had shady business overseas. You refused him no matter what. And now, if you show up at his door and he rejects you…”
I shook my head firmly.
“He won’t reject me. Help me contact him. This is my only chance.”
After saying that, I opened my phone. The screen was filled with vicious comments about me.
“I always knew she wasn’t a good person. Instead of improving her skills as a lawyer, she married into a wealthy family. That firm of hers probably existed just to hook a rich man!”
“A lawyer who breaks the law herself? She should be executed on the spot! So what if she’s ‘mentally ill’? Murder is still murder!”
“The victim was only twenty, still in college. Her life destroyed by Rachel Evans—if she survives this, I’ll go kill someone too!”