Chapter 26
Savannah had braced herself for a fight. She knew trying to overturn a closed case wouldn’t be easy.
But what she hadn’t expected… was that the man who hurt her sister had completely vanished.
Him–and his mother. Gone without a trace.
She even traveled all the way to their old town, staking out their neighborhood for five days straight just to get a lead.
Finally, someone mentioned seeing a black car pick them up in the middle of the night.
They didn’t catch the make or model–just that it had tinted windows, diplomatic plates, and moved like it owned the road.
Savannah’s heart stopped.
Only one man had that kind of reach. Only one man could make people disappear without leaving a ripple.
Julian Ford.
He didn’t just lie.
He didn’t just show up overseas pretending to be sorry, claiming he was deceived by Delilah and didn’t know what really happened to Emily.
He hid them.
He buried, the truth so deep she almost never found it.
Savannah let out a slow, shaking breath, then handed over the cash she’d promised the informant.
She didn’t tell Ben or anyone.
She flew back to the city and went straight to the Ford estate.
The butler greeted her at the door, far too warm for someone who hadn’t seen her in years. “Mrs. Ford! You’re here. Mr. Ford will be thrilled-”
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She cut him off coldly. “Don’t call me that. I’m not your ‘Mrs. Ford.‘ I stopped being that the day your Mr. Ford signed the divorce papers.”
The man’s smile faltered. He chuckled awkwardly before letting out a quiet sigh.
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“Everyone knows you’re no longer married, but to Mr. Ford… you’re still the only woman who ever mattered. He never stopped- “Spare me,” Savannah snapped, halting mid–step. “If he really wanted to make things right, he should’ve suffered like my sister did. Let him die the way she did–maybe then we can talk about redemption.”
The butler’s face drained of color.
And then she saw him.
Julian stood just beyond the entryway, thin cotton shirt clinging to him in the cold, gaunt and silent.
Savannah didn’t even flinch.
There wasn’t a trace of hesitation in her voice when her gaze locked on him, cold as frost.
“What? Something I said wasn’t true?”
Julian didn’t answer.
The shadow cut across half his face, hiding whatever emotion was there.
A gust of wind rushed past them, and in that moment, he looked…not like the titan of industry. But like a man already half gone. Chapter 26
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Everyone around them fell silent.
But Savannah walked straight to him, not a flicker of fear in her eyes.
“I’ll make this easy for you,” she said. “I didn’t come back to talk. I came to finish what Emily couldn’t. I’m reopening the case.”
“I don’t care what lies you fed me back then. I don’t care how sorry you pretend to be. I know you–Julian–and I know you’d never actually hurt Delilah. Not even now.”
“I don’t care where you’ve hidden her and that bastard. But hear this-”
“I don’t care if it kills me. I will get justice.”
The butler looked alarmed, about to step in.
But Julian lifted his head first, offering a ghost of a smile, his voice barely audible.
“If you want the truth… if you want them… I won’t stop you. But I want something in return.”
Savannah took two steps back on instinct, eyes narrowing.
The revulsion in her expression was clear.
“What the hell do you want, Julian?”
“You gonna try to blackmail me again?”
“Still playing your little power games? All these years and you haven’t changed at all.”
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