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“Oh, ht have a heart attack”

Briana’s phone rang from under a throw blanket on the couch She found it, looked at the caller ID, said, “Mo apartment”

Briana clicked off the call and said to Yuki, “I’ll be right back”

She went down the hallway and into another room out of Yuki’s view, but Yuki heard the door slam closed

Right after that Yuki heard Briana screa

There was the sound of running water

Aroo, like she had put her head under the faucet

She dropped back into the basket chair and said, “Okay, Yuki Tell ly, and any other daot”

CHAPTER 95

YUKI PRESSED ON, past her own tremendous disco

She folded her hands in her lap and told Briana about confronting Marc with Paul Yates’s suicide note, and the subsequent confession froo

“He coainst you and he ainst him now,” Yuki told her “Extortion, perjury, cris we can throw at hined confession”

Briana shot out of her chair, lit up all over again She stood over Yuki and shouted, “Throw everything at him Do not spare him Do you knohat that maniac has done to me? He’s wrecked my career, my reputation Even my friends have lost faith inpictures of un’

“My privacy is gone My dignity—destroyed My poor mother, a proud woman, is now an object of pity”

Briana clambered back into the basket chair She scowled, curled up, and hugged her knees, her face radiating hurt and anger She turned her head and pinned Yuki with a hard glare