Chapter 303

Gabrielle didn't chat much with Evelyn before someone from the orchestra came to call her away. Evelyn knew she still had a few more tour performances lined up. As soon as she heard the voice on the phone, she just told Gabrielle to go handle her stuff first. After hanging up, Evelyn stood silently by the floor-to-ceiling window, arms crossed. In Yellington, Clara had handed her a massive casino, tucked safely under the backing of the Hayes family. Not many people out there knew it was Clara who ran it. Technically, the casino also had some ties to the Harman family—yeah, they had a stake in it too. Even though the Harmans fronted a clean family business now, their roots were in less-than-legal activities. It took generations of effort to clean up their name, and even now, they weren't completely out of the game. So in Yellington, the Harmans still held serious power. Evelyn had asked Gabrielle to keep watch for her. It was nothing too complicated—she'd been planning this from the star