From Best Friend To Fiancé (Savannah and Roman) novel Chapter 456

Chapter 456

The smile disappeared from his face. Just like that. The mask cracked

right before my eyes, not dramatically, not violently but just enough

to reveal something colder beneath.

Then, just as quickly, it was gone.

“You say it like you don’t believe that she fired the gun that put your

brother in this condition,” he said carefully, watching me the way a

hawk studies its prey, waiting for the slightest wrong move.

“I’ve lived with Roman and Savannah for a short while,” I said evenly. “And one thing I’ve learned is that those two could never live without each other. That being said, they’d never hurt each other. They’re in

love. As much as that might be a strange term to you now, there are people who are genuinely besotted with each other. That is Roman and Savannah. She would never shoot Roman in the chest. Never.”

He smirked, leaning back in his chair. “Are you insinuating I somehow

fired the gun myself?”

I shook my head slowly. “No, sir. You rarely do the job yourself.”

His smile dropped.

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“You like having people do the job for you. That’s why you had one of

your minions fire the gun and pin it on Savannah. Her finger might

have been on the trigger, but she didn’t pull it. He did,” I said. “Under

your instructions.”

I wasn’t even sure how much of what I was saying I believed.

I was just playing a dangerous game now. Pushing, probing, daring

him to crack. I wanted something. Anything. A slip. A word. A twitch

that would confirm what I already feared.

But he remained calm.

“Just like how multiple shots were fired in broad daylight in a

residential area with multiple neighbours home, yet no one called the

police.” I met his eyes squarely. “All the while, you were conveniently

in New Hope. What were you doing there, Father? What are the

chances that you just happened to be driving by for a meeting when

Roman was shot and losing blood?”

Silence followed. Not the comfortable kind. The suffocating kind.

For a moment, I truly believed he wouldn’t respond. That he’d let the

silence do the talking. And that silence would have been my

confirmation, the proof that everything had my evil father’s

handwriting on it.

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But instead, he surprised me.

He fixed his eyes on me, his posture rigid, his voice steady. “Zachary,

you and your siblings are what matters to me. Nothing else. You can

believe it. Or you can decide not to. I don’t control your thoughts.”

I scoffed softly.

His strange honesty and sudden display of fatherly concern would have been laughable if it wasn’t so tragically late. But before I could

respond, he continued. He wasn’t finished.

“Everything I do is to make sure that nothing goes wrong in my absence. Nothing.” Then he slid an envelope across the desk toward

1. me.

The motion was simple. But the weight of it felt enormous.

I looked at it suspiciously. “What’s in it?”

“Have you forgotten the use of your hands?”

I suppressed the urge to roll my eyes as I reached for the envelope.

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