Chapter 572

At that same moment, Elena hurried through the hallway, the sound of her high heels clicking sharply against the cold floor.

She wasn’t paying much attention to her surroundings as her thoughts were far too tangled to focus on anything else. Liam’s offer, the words he had thrown at her, kept circling in her mind. She had turned him down, rejected the money, the chance to get back everything she and her brother Nathan had lost, but now, she was starting to second-guess herself.

A part of her wondered if she should have accepted it. After all, she could use the money. A fresh start, a way to revive everything she had lost. The temptation was real. Her family’s company was bankrupt, their family home was also long gone. Liam’s offer could bring it all back, everything she had once dreamed of reclaiming.

But more than that, Elena had a darker thought lurking in the back of her mind, one that made the decision easier. With the plan she and Mr. Simpson were carefully orchestrating, Liam w