Chapter 560

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Where did she go?

The question resounded in Kendrick's mind, paying less attention to the man sitting across from him.

She'd appeared at the event and fled. He'd gone back home and found it empty. Did she leave for good? Was she never going to come back?

Or would she come back? She always came back, right?

Hailey would always return to him, banging at the door and screaming that he let her back into his life. She wouldn't leave him because of this.

She was hurt by this decision, he felt it deep inside. Yet, this was the only way. He trusted Sharelene with her words. This was the only way she could be with him.

She would be out of the public's eyes. No one would know about her, and she'd be safe from all the dangers.

The dangers he'd always strived to protect her from.

It shocked him when she brought those words up. Yes, he'd said those words. She was unconscious at that time after the surgery. How was she able to remember?

"Mr. Reid." The lawyer cleared his throat, snapping him