Chapter 3: The Secret in the Badge
"She’s an officer!" Diana hissed, her composure fraying. "She’s a criminal! She tried to kidnap him!"
Sarah slowly pushed herself up, ignoring the pain in her side. She didn't look at Diana. She looked at Marcus. "I didn't kidnap him, Marcus," she said, her voice steady, hard, and devoid of the softness he remembered. "I spent five years investigating the 'accident' that supposedly took my life. I had to go undercover. I had to become someone who could protect him from the people you call your friends."
The room gasped. The glamorous socialite wasn't just a family friend; she was the one who had orchestrated the "accident" to secure Marcus’s inheritance, leaving the boy under her control while the "mother" was supposedly dead.
