The Queen They Let Go (Alice and Eric) novel Chapter 443

Some of St. Anne Hospital's techniques were now more advanced than anything overseas.

Eric was supposed to be here to save Xavier's life.

Yet looking at it now, that clearly wasn't the case at all.

"He's probably here for something else, maybe even something that has to do with you."

Alice propped her chin in her hand and watched him, thinking of how Xavier had come over to chat with them at the funeral.

Eric rubbed his brow. "You give me too much credit."

Alice burst out laughing. "But Mr. Eric, you really are very charming."

Eric didn't know what to say.

He felt like he was being flirted with.

But he had no proof.

"Mr. Eric!"

Daniel stood at the doorway, staring at his phone with a gasp.

Eric stared at him.

Sometimes, he honestly wanted to send Daniel out to the desert to plant trees.

"This is bad, this is bad!

"Wait. No. This is actually pretty good."

Eric was caught off guard.

Alice was curious what he meant.

Daniel hurried over with his phone held up. "It's Linda—karma finally caught up with her. She's about to jump off a building."

Alice was still silent.

She had almost forgotten that Linda even existed.

Seeing them both stay silent, Daniel thought the gossip had stunned them speechless.

So, he immediately pulled up the posts from online and started explaining.

"Word is she got, you know, messed with by someone—her clothes were ripped, and people are saying someone has dirt on her, so she's been scrambling to save herself these last two days.

"Now, she's threatening to jump. Maybe it means all her attempts to fix things failed."

Alice frowned. "I have no idea what you're talking about."

Daniel stared at her.

"Mrs. Nolan, I mean Linda's scandals have exploded all over the internet—stuff like plotting against her brothers, stepping on them to grab resources, even hurting her best friend, and so on."

Any one of those accusations by itself was enough to be fatal.

Alice wasn't surprised at all.

Play with fire, and you get burned. Linda was just finally paying the price.

And then, her phone rang—it was Rowan calling.

"Patron, are you satisfied with what you're seeing?"

Alice's expression tightened for a moment. "The whole Linda situation—was that you?"

Rowan was very quick to ... deny it.

"Patron, I won't pretend to be a saint, but when it comes to Linda, I don't need to run in circles like this.

"That USB drive she gave me before was fake from the start—it was all part of Maria's little setup.

But if all of this was Nathan's doing, then that was truly...

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