"keeping me around won't benefit you."
"Charlotte won't tolerate you having a mistress."
Emma raised her voice deliberately, her gaze flicking toward the cable car stalled midway down the hill.
Earlier that night, before sneaking into the study, she had passed by Charlotte's bedroom.
The sounds of passion she overheard between Charlotte and Tyler were impossible to miss.
With George dead, Charlotte wouldn't sit idly by—especially knowing her father was dead.
Tyler might not be in a hurry to kill her, but Charlotte certainly would be.
"Emma, if you come back, I promise I'll keep my word!"
Tyler's tone softened, thinking it was Charlotte who held her back. "Emma, no one can come between us now. Come back to me, darling."
He coaxed her as the way he used to seduce her in the past.
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