Page 210 of Burning Daylight

I think I see a tooth fly from Frederick’s mouth, but I can’t be sure.

Lance immediately kicks him in the gut. Over and over, like he’s lost all reason.

“Are you out of your goddamn mind? I will stay in those underground cages for the rest of my life before I’deverlet you touch her.” Lance aims the gun.

Underground cages?

“Lance,” Benny says, appearing from the trees.

Lance’s teeth grit. “Youshut the fuck up, Benny.”

Frederick laughs from the ground and then groans, curling in on himself. “He’ll kill you if you stay down there.”

Lance shrugs. “Then I guess I’ll see you in hell.”

He shoots.

Again.

And again.

And again.

The birds fly from the trees like they can sense the death in the air.

Benjamin rips the gun from Lance’s hand, wiping it down with his shirt and then pressing his own fingers to it tightly.

“Why the fuck did you do that?” Lance asks.

“It couldn’t be you,” he says, turning toward him. He looks like he might puke or pass out. “You know it couldn’t be you. She needs you.”

Lance nods, and then his eyes flicker over to us and widen when he realizes that Juliette is lying in my lap, breathing but still knocked out.

He walks over and looks at me with a grim expression. “Is she?—”

“She’s alive,” I cut him off. “But we need to get her to the hospital.”

He nods again and then meets my gaze. “Take her. And Roman,thankyou. For loving her enough to save her.”

County’s Top Lawyer Exposed as Criminal Mastermind in High-Stakes Power Plot!

Hold on to your pearls, Rosebrook Falls, becauseeverythingjust exploded.

In a scandal that’s rocked Rosebrook Falls to its core, high-power attorney Frederick Lawrence has been revealed as the man behind a years-long scheme involving murder, manipulation, and a twisted attempt to seize control of the Montgomery estate.

The real shock? He wasn’t working alone.

Earlier today, Paxton Calloway held a press conference confirming all of the rumors were true.

Heather Argent (yes,thatHeather Argent: Roman Montgomery’s once-thought-dead mother) was keeping Roman under her thumb, while Lawrence pulled strings from behind the scenes.

His motive?

Revenge.

Turns out, Lawrence had a lot of secrets and they went beyond his clients. He was the secret half brother of Eleanor Voltaire, Marcus Montgomery’s late wife, who tragically died five years ago.

The conspiracy came crashing down when Roman Montgomery stepped in to save Juliette Calloway from a planned abduction, unraveling the entire plot in a single night.