A cold glint flashed in Sue Lawrence's eyes, her composure terrifyingly calm. "She must have been rescued by the team first. Now she's deliberately leading them to our doorstep."
"You've got to be kidding me! Her? Kind?" Elliot Lawrence trembled with rage, his teeth chattering. "Just a few days ago, she was trying every trick in the book to extort half a million from our family. What makes you think she has good intentions now?"
"Of course she doesn't."
The absurdity made Sue Lawrence laugh, but the smile held no warmth. Her lips curled into an arc as sharp and cold as ice as she slowly rose to her feet.
'Now that she's forced our hand, there's no hiding.'
'Refusing to leave now would be a dead giveaway. That viper, Pamela Sutton, will just sink her fangs into our family and never let go. She's a menace we'll have to deal with one way or another.'
'In that case, we'll go to the bomb shelter.'
