Chapter 685

As soon as I realized how perfectly timed my arrival was, a wave of unease washed over me. I hadn't been around for days, and the moment I showed up, I ran into Jasper, and trouble kicked off. It felt like someone had set this up on purpose. In the parking lot, I confronted the overweight guy whose head I'd just smashed. "Spill it. Who sent you to stir things up today?" Half his face was covered in blood. I might have been scared by something like that before, but now it didn't bother me at all. "I don't get what you're saying," he said, his eyes wide with fear as he looked at me. I wouldn't usually support violence, but it definitely got results. He had turned cooperative after I cracked him with an ashtray. I smiled and looked around. He must have sensed what I was thinking because he immediately recoiled. "Ms. Crown, please, don't make this harder on me." "Just tell me, and I won't have any reason to," I replied, holding his gaze. "I can't. If I do, it's over for me," he said