It was past eleven at night when Zara called me on Allyn’s phone, asking me to go to Garden Cottage to pick him up because he was drunk.
As I drove, several questions kept swirling in my mind. Why was Allyn drunk? What was Zara’s purpose in this? Why did she call me?
The reason it wasn’t Luzie was simple—Zara had been denying her relationship with Allyn to Luzie.
But she chose to contact me instead of Allyn’s assistant or housekeeper, someone who didn’t even know where Allyn should be taken.
At the same time, I was also the fastest way to reach Luzie.
So, she still wanted Luzie to know she was with Allyn, but she was too scared to completely tear things apart with her.
What a cunning woman.
The car sped along and soon arrived at the door of Garden Cottage. I rang the doorbell, and Z
