Madly Yours (Nora Reed) novel Chapter 183

The phone rang several times before an impatient woman answered. "Well?"

"I'm sorry, Juliette... I missed."

"Dorian Chase, did a year in prison rot your brain? You can't even handle one woman? Just run her over the exact same way you did a year ago! Do I really have to spell it out for you?"

The line went silent for a few seconds.

"I apologize, Juliette. I'll find another opportunity."

Juliette Sterling scoffed coldly. "If you fail again, don't bother coming back to me!"

"Juliette..."

"Shut up, you don't even deserve to speak my name!"

Juliette's voice dripped with disgust. "If it wasn't for your father, my parents wouldn't be dead, and I wouldn't have grown up an orphan! Your family owes me this! I own your life. If I tell you to live, you live. If I tell you to die, you die!"

"Yes... Juliette."

"Enough. If there's nothing else, I'm hanging up..."

"Wait, there's one more thing," Dorian quickly interrupted. "When I was in prison, I met an older guy named Vance. He was serving fifteen years for statutory rape..."

Juliette frowned. "And what does that have to do with me?"

"He used to stare at a photo in his cell while... doing things. I caught a glimpse of it once, and the little girl in the picture looked exactly like Nora. I managed to get him talking, and he claimed it was his daughter, Eleanor Vance. Said she'd be twenty-three now. The age perfectly matches Nora's..."

Eleanor Vance.

Juliette's grip on her phone tightened.

There was no way the universe could orchestrate a coincidence like this, right?

"Can you find him?"

"I'd need to head back to Northampton..."

"Go right now. The second you find him, you let me know."

"Understood."

Ending the call, Juliette leaned back against the sofa and closed her eyes. Her mind flashed to the utter disgust in Edmond Sterling's eyes.

He was never like this before.

Even though Edmond had punished her and shipped her abroad overnight after she ordered Dorian to hit Nora with a car, he still visited her every single month.

Back then, with Nora out of the picture, Edmond didn't set strict boundaries with her. They did everything together short of sleeping with each other, and she would sweet-talk him into compliance every time.

He never rejected her advances.

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