That way, he''d be so focused on testing me that he wouldn''t think about doing anything else.


    Hannah thought for a moment before saying, "The next time you two meet, the moment he starts testing you, just call him out. Ask him if he''s testing you, if he suspects you."


    "Then, start a fight with him. After you''re done,e back here and start a fight with me. Pull the security footage from the house and send it to Lionel. Tell him you''re done working with him. If he insists on continuing the partnership, demand he give you a dedicated contact and make him promise to never suspect you again. And if he does, he''ll have to pay you a heftypensation."


    Cherry''s eyes lit up at Hannah''s suggestion, and she gave her an enthusiastic thumbs-up.


    “That''s brilliant. It''s actually a really good n. I''ll do just that. The only thing is, I don''t have any reason to go see him right now."


    She continued, "If Lionel wants to test me, he''ll have toe to me. I''ll just wait for him to make the first move. I''m not the one in a hurry; he is."


    Samuel crossed his arms, leaned back slightly, and a faint, unreadable smile yed on his lips. "I have to admit, Lionel isn''t aplete idiot. He''s pieced together some key information. It''s just a shame for him that he never imagined we were already working together, and that everything we''ve done was a sham from the start."


    Honestly, Samuel was dying to go tell him that it was all fake, just as he had suspected.


    He had been yed from the very beginning. The look on his face when he finally learned the truth would be absolutely priceless, downrightical.


    But as much as he''d enjoy seeing that, the time wasn''t right. They couldn''t reveal the truth yet. They had to hold it in until the secret could no longer be kept.


    "Anyway, just blow things up. The bigger, the better. Let himpletely break down before we


    tell him the truth. By the way, howe we haven''t heard anything about that mistresstely


    "Did you forget? He said he already locked Sandra in their basement."


    Hannah''s eyes blinked twice as she processed this, pondering something in silence for a long moment.


    "Call the police. Tell them Lionel is illegally imprisoning someone. Then, get a few reporters and media


    outlets to camp out over there.


    Since he has so much free time


    let''s


    give him something to do. Let him trend online again, have his mother scream at him, and just drive him crazy."


    Hannah was getting addicted to toying with him. If there was even the slightest chance to make his life miserable, she wouldn''t miss it.


    She was determined to make him experience that suffocating feeling of one crisis piling on top of another before the first was even resolved.


    Taking his cue, Samuel immediately picked up his phone to call the police. He was a man of action; once he decided on something, he did it without wasting a single second.


    Meanwhile, Lionel was trying to figure out how to summon Cherry when he received a call from the police, demanding his cooperation in an investigation. They told him he was being used of false imprisonment and that he needed to get to the Rosenberg estate immediately.