Chapter 221: Saira’s Silence
"What do you mean Saira is not Saira and Adam wasn’t dead?"
Spencer dragged a hand through his already disheveled hair, tension coiling in his chest as he processed the shocking update from his contact inside the police department. According to the plan—their plan, the one Saira herself had orchestrated with meticulous detail—her death was to be faked, Adam’s death was to be real, and Melanie was supposed to take the fall for all of it.
It had been precise. Clean. And he had been the one to provide the evidence to frame Melanie... For which, he had use Ben... ben had been the one to sneak into the office and conduct that search. He had been the one to arrange the fake auction with the fake supplier...
But now the police were saying that Saira wasn’t even really Saira, and Spencer was left trying to piece together how they could have found this information. He never could have imagined that while Saira had come to him, desperate to save herself from his grandfather, proposing her grand scheme to frame Melanie, she had been spinning an even deeper web—one that involved not just faking her own death but kidnapping Adam as well.
Of course she had hidden it well. She must have known that if she let on her plan to save Adam, he would never have agreed. All his life, he’d wanted only one thing. And that was to be rid of Adam. But now all his plans had gone to waste!
How was he supposed to explain things to grandfather? Saira was useless now, Adam was missing and their sole informer by Melanie’s side- Ben, was also gone to waste.
Thinking of Ben made him even more angry! To have planned Adam’s fake death with Ben, of all people. Ben!
Ben—the man he had handpicked to make sure Adam died quietly in the hospital. When both Adam and Ben disappeared, Spencer had assumed Ben had simply lost his nerve, gone soft at the last minute and opted to smuggle Adam out instead. It had seemed plausible at the time, even frustratingly predictable.
But no. This wasn’t Ben going rogue. This had been Saira’s plan all along. And now, she was going to be interrogated by the police and end up implicating him as well. That manipulative, lying b*tch. Was there any woman who was trustworthy? Melanie and Saira were cut from the same cloth! Only his Hallie had been perfect until now. Loving and Loyal.