When The Contract Ends

his voice steady. "My obligation is

r lips tightening, but Frank Wa

lease don't listen to him!" Frank gu

am a venom

s of Mr. Vance. He doesn't mean a word of it

Victoria's ar

ool slightly, replaced by a l

at Liam, th

le playing on her lips. "Is that it, Liam? Are

Frank's explanation offered a conve

ws his place. As long as you remembe

out a folder. "Ah, the renewal for the anc

ument with a flour

as selling him out again, ensuring Liam re

f my personal contract," Liam sta

ill do as you're told, boy!"

ack in place. "He's just being difficult, Mrs. Sterl

Liam a cool, a

e said. "Stop this disrupti

t out of

s Victoria was gone. She m

her small face hard. "I hate yo

ght at the beginning, before Julian, before the ful

y hostile. She' d even let him read

a in her grief, had filled her head with id

on Daddy died," Chloe said, her

s of Daddy and Mommy and

had died in a plane crash, a pilo

, poisoning a child'

ue, Chloe," Li

to the two new security guards Vi

d, her voice mimicking Victoria's imperious

rom the original house,

itated, lookin

ng wouldn't.

isobeyed me?" Chloe threatened, sta

then sighed. They clearly didn't

s too weak from his injur

stairs, into the chilling, mu

ound of a key turning in the lock

the dark. His broken hand th

nion, settled over him li