CHAPTER 158

LAURA DIEGO

That fucking bitch! The nerve on that woman! Trying to one-up me in my own house!

Well, it wasn't my house just yet, but it would be the second Fredrick married me!

“I need to do something about you Darlene,” I growled, digging my fingers into the polished wood of the vanity mirror where the porcelain-faced woman with severely drawn eyebrows was staring stonily back at me.

I turned my head this way and that, marveling at the way the bright fluorescent caught the tight porcelain skin of my face, my small pearl earrings slapping against my cheeks softly.

I’d made only two stops on my way to the McKenzie manor.

One at the back street ville of the high-end estate, to meet with Dr. Erlis. A shady, shorthanded elite plastic surgeon who dealt in blood, currency, and secrecy, the perfect cover when you were looking to maintain that fountain of your youth away from the elite women’s prying eyes and rubber flappers that were sure to talk.

I pressed cold fingers to the supple skin o