Chapter 78 Tracy’s Retort
“I never once tried to take the Jackmans‘ money. Where my moneyes from has nothing to do with you.”
“The nerve of you!” Liam’s voice rose with heat. “First, you fake a kidnapping. Then, you take some pitiful job so people will feel sorry for you. When that fails, you run after men. How did we ever raise someone like you? Someone with no shame at all!
“And to think Erin believed she was wrong about you She’s been eaten up with guilt, losing sleep over it She kept telling me not to take my anger out on that shop owner’s family, the ones stupid enough to help you with your little act. Otherwise, I would have-”
“How do you even know I worked there?”
Tracy had been ready to leave without another word, but her feet stopped cold. She lifted her head and fixed him with an icy stare.
Liam mistook her stillness for embarrassment at being caught, and his mouth curled in triumph. “Your pathetic little tricks could never fool me. You wanted us to think you were struggling in some dead–end job so we’d pity you. I’ll show you what disgrace really looks like.”
Her gaze stayed sharp as ss, though fire now burned beneath it. “So it was you who went after the shop owner, and you even threatened his family? You’re the reason none of my jobssted longer than three days?”
She spoke each word with measured force, holding her temper by a thread.
Liam, blind to her fury, thought her questions meant she was finally afraid.
Maybe she had evene to him to beg.
He lifted his chin high. “So what if I did do that? He lifted his chin high. “So what if I did do that? You think you can get away with such cheap-
Her hand met his cheek with a crack that split the air, stopping him mid–sentence.
Her anger surged like it had been building in her chest for days.
“If you have a problem with me, then face me yourself. Abusing your family’s influence to attack civilians is nothing but cowardice and humiliation!
“You didn’t just ruin someone’s livelihood. You threatened their family, including children and the elderly. You call you and your family civilized and noble, yet animalse from a nobler stock than you do. I was going to call you a beast<b>, </b>but now I see that’d just be an insult to them.”
Liam stared at her with wide eyes, too shocked to speak for a long moment.
“Did you just hit me?” His voice carried disbelief.
Never had sheid a hand on him before. And now she had struck him for the sake of strangers, <b>even </b>calling him a piece <b>of </b>scum that was lower than a beast.
Her re stayed unflinching. “I used to think you were just <b>someone </b>who worked <b>well </b>with <b>reckless </b>
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abandon. I thought at least there’s something good in your core, font no. I was dead wrong
It wasn’t only Liam. She had been wrong about the entire Jackman family, believing their promised the they treated her no differently than their own.
Her tone turned cold and scornful. “I can’t believe I was your family for a big part of my life Feels like the thought alone is tainting my whole self now. No amount of shower’s going to wash that kind of stely away.”
She turned and walked away as though the very air around him was poison.
Liam remained rooted in ce, whether from her words or the sting still burning on his cheek He watched her retreat, baffled.
He told himself it had been for her.That he did it for her own good.
If not for her, he never would have used the Jackmans‘ influence <i>to </i>crush an ordinary family. And yet she repaid him with cruelty. The audacity of it!
Even after her outburst, Tracy’s anger refused to fade.
She knew Liam. He wasn’t clever enough toe up with something so underhanded.
His words made it clear. This had Erin’s handprints all over it, her tearful face dripping with hints and suggestions.
Tracy didn’t pause. She headed straight for Erin’s room.
She reached the door and was about to push it open when a sharp, furious voice rang out from inside. “Five million? Are you out of your mind? I don’t have that kind of money to give you!”
Tracy’s hand froze on the doorknob. Her anger cooled into something sharper, edged with curiosity.
Someone was asking Erin for money.
She leaned in until her ear touched the door. Erin must have realized her outburst had been too loud, because the rest of her words came in a low murmur.
Tracy stayed there, listening, but aside from the faint rumble of voices, she couldn’t make out anything clear.
She hesitated, weighing whether to slip the door open, when it was suddenly pulled from the other side.
Erin stood there, her face still twisted in anger. The sight of Tracy stopped her cold, and her expression shifted from shock to <i>clear </i>panic. “You… What are you doing here?”
Her voice trembled, and her eyes rted around as if to check for anyone else.
Tracy watched her carefully.
It was the first time she had ever seen Erin look like this. Who could be after her for that kind of money<b>? </b>
Erin shrank back under her gaze. “Did you need something from me?”
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Tracy studied her for a beat, then asked, “Were you the one who told m to threaten the shop owner’s family so they’d fire me?”
The relief on Erin’s face was instant.
She gave her usual soft smile and denied it without a second thought. “That wasn’t me. I even rold Liars not to drag innocent people into this. He-”
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