Chapter 237

Shawn said quietly, "It was my fault. Hayley gave up everything for me." Roxanne froze, stunned by the words she had just heard. "So… you and Hayley were forced apart?" The Riley family was the wealthiest in all of Riverton, and there was no one with the power or reason to come between them. Suddenly, there was a loud bang on Shawn's end of the line. It sounded like something had exploded nearby. Roxanne's heart clenched. "Shawn? Shawn!" What answered her was the cold, robotic tone of a disconnected line. The flat, repetitive beeping echoed like a final goodbye. Her face turned ghostly pale in a second. Shawn was in an active war zone, and that noise had been loud, unmistakably like an explosion. The sheer volume meant it had gone off dangerously close. A chilling thought settled in her mind—something terrible might have happened to him. Her voice trembled as she shouted into the phone again, "Shawn! Shawn, please—" But there was no answer, only that same empty signal. Hopele