Chapter 196

Xander Lewis kept his cool and broke it all down, “So, looks like the kid’s out of immediate danger. As long as Marilyn Gray’s satisfied, she’ll let him go. The tricky part is Jason Smith. He’s not going to just let this slide. He’ll definitely use this chance to pin it on Henry Smith, claim he kidnapped his nephew to pressure him into giving up the inheritance. And now that Lena Carter’s been caught, she’s clearly the key to this whole thing.” In other words, if Lena’s willing to cooperate and testify that Jason tried to kill her to shut her up, then she’s on our side. But if she figures out Henry handed her over to the cops just to make her take the fall for Marilyn, she might turn around and join forces with Jason—and that’d be a whole new mess… While Xander and I were going over our options, someone knocked on my office door again. “Miss Johnson, we have new developments in Evan Smith’s kidnapping case. We need you to come with us to the station. This is your arrest warrant.” The t