Chapter 65

Mrs Hill answered the call from Stewart, expecting him to be shouting in joy but instead, she was met with a cold silence that pronounced failure of their mission even before Stewart said it.

"Mom, I don't know how he managed to escape," Stewart said at the other end of the line.

Mrs Hill let out an exasperated breath. "We'll discuss later." For now, only she and Stewart were on the mission to kill Ryan. Stephanie is too kind-hearted to want to do something like that so she has not better been carried along.

"Who was that?" Stephanie asked when her mother ended the call.

"Some somebody," Mrs Hill said in a tired voice. She was starting to get frustrated about the whole thing.

"Is Stewart now 'some somebody'?"

Mrs Hill shot Stephanie a hard look. "This is happening all because of you, girl."

"What?"

"Oh. You don't know? You've forgotten that if you had not married Ryan al