Chapter 165

With both hands on the cold marble floor, she looked up at Jasper fearfully with tears in her eyes, not daring to say a word. She feared that she might enrage Jasper and end up worse off than Edith. Jasper lit a cigarette, took a drag, and blew out a ring of smoke. He said in a deep voice, ”You have the jade pendant, don’t you?” Samantha went numb with shock. By now, her tears and snot had combined. She stuttered, “I-I have it at home. I-I just happened to pick it up…” When she overheard Edith’s phone call, she had learned that Jasper had slept with Willow and left her a token. Jasper wanted Willow to seek him out again with that token. Samantha had found the pendant in the debris before Willow could and hid it away. For the past five years, she kept using the pendant as an excuse to get money from Edith. She had threatened to hand the pendant over to Jasper and reveal the truth if Edith didn’t pay up. Edith had always obliged out of fear of being exposed. The pendant