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“Understood.” Natalie nodded before she got back to the call. “Didn't you say that Harrison contacted Susan? What
did he tell her?”
“I've no idea as he won't let me listen in. But Harrison called me over afterward and asked to have the police
brought to his ward at two in the afternoon tomorrow,” Jared replied.
Natalie pursed her lips. “Bring the police to his ward? What's he up to?”
Shane also had his eyes on the phone.
“I'm not sure about that, but he seemed quite serious about it. Determined too. So I guess he must be plotting
something. Should I play along, Nat?” Jared asked.
Natalie turned to Shane. “What do you think, Darling?”
“Do it.” Shane assented. “Whatever he has in mind, he can't touch us with the police around.”
“True, that.” Natalie saw the rationale of it and spoke back into the phone. “Go ahead, and tell Harrison that we'll be
there.”
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇt“Okay. I'm going to hang up now.” Jared grunted.
Once the call concluded, Shane went on to open the car door. “Let's head back first. The kids must be missing us by
now.”
Natalie smiled and got in.
Back at the Thompson villa, Shane spent some time with the children before he headed over to the study.
Mrs. Wilson had a glass of milk brought to Natalie. “Is Mr. Shane alright, madam? He doesn't seem quite himself.”
As much as Shane tried to mask it, his gloominess remained discernible.
Natalie exhaled after she received the glass from her, and told her all about their visit to Rhys and Marjorie earlier
in the day.
Mrs. Wilson held a hand over her mouth and let out a gasp. “Good grief. So it was Jacqueline. Isn't she just ten years
old eighteen years ago? How could she have been so wicked?”
“Yeah. Whoever said that children were like little angels forgot that they could be devils too.” Natalie lamented.
Actually, when Connor was two and established to possess high intelligence, the doctor reminded her repeatedly to
raise him well. Children as gifted as he was far and few in between. If not guided properly, it would be possible for
him to tread down the wrong path.
Once a person of high intellectual capacity fell by the wayside, the consequences would be unimaginable.
That was why she was relieved that Jacqueline only had her dark predisposition and not the brilliance that Connor
possessed, for it would have been disastrous for them otherwise.
“I'm tired, Mommy,” the yawning Sharon said as she tugged at Natalie's arm.
Natalie caressed her cheeks. “All right. Let me take you upstairs.”
With that, she led her two children toward the steps, and by the time she had coaxed them both to bed, it was
already quite late.
She checked in at the bedroom first and discovered that Shane had yet to turn in, hence she closed the door and
made her way over to the study.
Natalie rapped on the door when she arrived outside.
“Is it you, Mrs. Wilson? Come on in.” Came Shane's weary voice from the inside.
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏm“It's me,” said Natalie as she pushed her way through.
Shane was seated at his desk and looked up when he heard her voice. “Still up?”
“How would I be able to rest when you are not back in.” Natalie closed the door behind her before she approached.
“Have you gotten past it?”
Shane reached out and held her hand before he guided her over onto his lap. “I'm past it. I was thinking about how
Jacqueline managed to lure my parents onto that road and then manipulate Sam into finishing her dirty deed for
her.”
“If you can't figure it out now, then stop trying to. Wouldn't we be able to uncover everything when we catch
Jacqueline herself?” Natalie replied while she stroked his face.
Shane tamed her wayward hand. “What about yourself? Have you?”
Natalie was mildly stunned as she knew he was asking about that surveillance footage she saw earlier; the one
which showed her how her own mother died and caused her to collapse emotionally before.
That was why he was still concerned.
Natalie wrapped her arms around his neck. “I'll be able to, so long as I have you with me.”
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