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“What happened afterward?” Natalie had her eyes closed and played the part of an attentive audience.
“She often told me how well my parents treated her and how much she missed them. I slowly came to accept her
as I thought she was really fond of them, and even felt grateful to her for being there to keep them company in my
absence.”
“Which was why you saved her when she met with an accident and never gave up on her in the ten years that she
was in a vegetative state? Was that why you continued to be nice to her even after she came to?” Natalie said.
Shane nodded. “That's right. It was entirely on my parents' accord that I treated her well. Never could I have
expected for her to be one of those responsible for causing their death. My generosity toward her turned out to be
a joke. I even feel that I've somehow let my parents down.”
Natalie felt her man's self-reproach and guilt. That did not make her feel good either.
She placed a hand on his chest. “It's not your fault as you couldn't have known any better, so I believe that Dad and
Mom won't blame you for it. At worst, we can go visit them to apologize after we've caught Jacqueline. I'm sure
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtthey'll surely forgive you.”
Shane ran his fingers through her soft curls. “Here's hoping.”
They had not managed to locate Jacqueline and still had no idea where she could be after all this time.
If left to her own devices, she could not possibly have managed to continue to elude them. Hence, he was
convinced that someone must be assisting her from the sidelines.
He had no inkling as to who that might be. It could not be the Gunns as they were already on their last legs and
were, as such, unlikely to have any resources to spare toward any distant relations.
Whoever has been helping Jacqueline has to be someone else. The question was who? Was it Sean, or...
It occurred to him that Sean and Jacqueline got in touch once when his relations were frosty with Natalie.
He, therefore, suspected that there must be more to their meeting than Sean simply asking after Natalie. There
had to be another angle to it.
As for what that was, he had a good hunch about it. The answer to that rested with that video inside of his mailbox.
That recording was filmed by Jacqueline, so she must be in possession of the original. Jacqueline had every
intention of coming between Natalie and himself, as did Sean.
Therefore, there was a distinct possibility that those two might still be working together; Jacqueline handed the
video over to Sean who, in turn, had it rerouted to him.
Going by this line of logic, everything else seemed to fall into place.
Wherever Jacqueline may be holed up, it was highly probable that it was Sean who made the arrangements. If Sean
was involved, then perhaps Jacqueline might not even be inside J City anymore.
The more Shane thought about it, the more severe his expression grew.
Natalie was about to check in with him when her cell phone rang, so that conversation took a backseat. When she
pulled out her phone, she found that it was a call from Jared.
“Jared?” said Natalie when she picked up.
She heard Jared's kindliness come through from the other end. “Harrison has just got in touch with Susan, Nat.”
“What?” Natalie narrowed her eyes. “Stay on the line.”
She lowered her phone and looked toward Shane. “Is Warren still in Mr. Campbell's custody, Darling?”
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmShane nodded. “Yes.”
After Warren received Susan's call, he tried to run because he knew that the cat was out of the bag. That was how
Silas' men nabbed him.
They were still holding him and yet to turn him over to the police, as they were still planning to do that in concert
with Susan's capture.
“What about Susan?” she asked again.
In her eagerness to relay that rotten bit of business between Harrison and Susan, she almost forgot to inquire
about Susan's whereabouts.
“Still in J City. Susan and Harrison have arranged to meet up at the airport, but she doesn't know that Warren has
been caught. She was in the opinion that he might have been delayed and has thus been waiting for him at a
hotel,” replied Shane.
The reason why he did not have Silas send anyone after Susan was because of Donald.
If Susan was captured, who would be there to take care of the boy if he had suddenly taken ill?
He was not going to have anyone take care of Donald because he was not his own kid.
Besides, Susan did not have the influence of Jacqueline or Sean. She was not capable of slipping away under his
nose, so he thought he might as well allow her to take care of the boy as he could always try to get her at a later
time.
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