Chapter 33

Seeing no chance of assistance, she had to haul her drenched body and begin the trek back along the highway. The evening breeze rustling through the trees sent violent shivers through her wet clothes, but the chill ran deeper from within her stomach. On a night like this, on this deserted road, she had been the target of a calculated murder attempt so brutal that she had nearly missed seeing another sunrise. Her chest became unbearably tight, and her mind went blank with dizziness. It wasn't hard for her to figure out who was responsible. Ever since she leaked that video at Anne's engagement, the Holts had been unusually quiet, not pounding on her door as they usually did. But she had never imagined that their silence masked a scheme to kill her. Throughout the years, even though she had never quite fit in with the Holt family, she hadn't assumed they had the worst intentions. At most, she anticipated loud arguments or career scheming from them. But she never could have imagined