Nyelle
My heart refused to calm down even after I stepped back into the mansion.
The moment the front door closed behind me, I released a shaky breath and ran both hands through my hair. My mind was a complete mess. Leon's words kept replaying over and over again, refusing to leave me alone.
How did he know about the burner phone?
That was the only question circling endlessly inside my head.
I paced across the living room, barely noticing the decorators moving around with boxes, ribbons, and flower arrangements. Their voices blended into meaningless background noise while I walked back and forth, my teeth sinking into my thumbnail as anxiety slowly crawled through my chest.
Everything about that conversation felt wrong. Leon had looked too confident. As though he already knew half t
