Chapter 79

If Ivory thought she had received the biggest surprise of the week when Lucien suddenly pulled that stunt of his on her, then this…this, was an even bigger surprise. A summons, a court summons, for murder, nonetheless. The very second she received the notification, Ivory had quickly read through it, and then read through it again, but still, the words didn’t change. It was written there in big bold letters, a Summoning for the murder of Peter Mendez. Peter Mendez? Ivory pondered the familiar name with a frown. Was that the quack doctor her father tried giving her to as a sacrificial lamb? He was dead and the court thinks she did it? “What the hell?” Ivory muttered, her thoughts in shambles, her mind working overtime to try and piece everything together. However, the more she tried, the more confused she became, until finally, she decided that the only way she could dim fit at the moment, was to allow her lawyer handle this. She called him immediately and explained the situation. “I und