Under the dim light, Amelia suddenly smiled.
“I heard you work at the township committee?”
“Yes.” Joe was still sizing her up, completely dismissing the question as unimportant.
But Amelia’s next words shook the entire room.
“What if I told you that I was trafficked here? How would the Monterey Committee handle that?”
"You little brat, what nonsense are you talking about?!"
Boom!
Grace exploded in an instant, lunging forward to grab Amelia!
But Jessica stepped in front of her, clearly annoyed.
“The the Cromwell family didn’t even convince her properly, and now they’re trying to send her to my nephew?”
“She wasn’t like this earlier!” Grace was furious.
So she had been pretending this whole way?!
This little brat was too good at acting!
She was terrified that the Morton family w
