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With that in mind, she strode swiftly toward the crowd, half afraid Wade would suddenly appear and haul her away When she reached the edge of the crohere a dozen or so people hung backto observe fros-on in front of her

But she took in the people closest to her fro for her best option to approach Only two see to catch one of thee and then dismiss her, she skirted around behind the others and approached the older of the two men who hadn’t appeared to have noticed her presence yet

"What on earth is going on?" Eliza asked in a breathy, excited sounding voice

She had positioned herself slightly to the left but behind thepress conference happening to

Eliza braced, curling her hands still stuffed in her pockets into tight fists as she waited for the inevitable

He stared at her a long htfully "You’re her, aren’t you? That girl who turned that sadistic bastard in to the police and then testified against him at his trial"

To Eliza’s coust or conde pleasant surprise that she found herself dropping the act of the lovesick fool who’d come back for her man when he was released

"Yes," she whispered

"It was a brave thing you did, young lady You were only a child Not uts to do what you did"

There was honest to God sincerity and admiration in his tone and his eyes were kind but she also saw pity

"Why is there going to be a press conference?" she asked, pressing her e and the fact he hadn’t already turned away in disgust She needed all the intel she could gather because this had not been expected and it could put a serious kink in the eance plan she’d spent days and weeks putting together