With Lauren’s death, all the “counterattack weapons” Roxana had carefully prepared became useless.
Harriet, who had helped collect the evidence, felt a little empty inside—but since Trisha and Roxana had decided to quietly close the case, she had nothing more to say.
While Harriet sorted and organized the piles of documents on Roxana’s desk, she asked regretfully:
“Are we cutting off the living expenses we were giving to the Marshalls?”
Roxana glanced at her and nodded calmly.
“Those payments were given only because Lauren Marshall was part of the Pellon family’s collateral branch.”
“What about the townhouse? I heard Pellon prepared that for them too.”
“That one has already been transferred to their name. We can’t take it back.”
“Ugh.”
Harriet felt furious that Baron Marshall and Jayden would get away with everything just because Lauren had killed herself.
Lauren had led the crimes, yes—but there was no way her…
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