Chapter 218

Edward Hawthorne stayed silent. Alice Sterling felt her throat tighten. Her mind flipped back through every memory, and her gaze dropped in disbelief to the white jade bracelet on her wrist. Before she left, she had deliberately left everything else at Edward’s place — except this bracelet, which had been hard to remove, so she just kept wearing it. Her face drained of color. Staring at the bracelet, she shook her head, almost in a daze, and started yanking at it with everything she had. But the thing fit perfectly—it wouldn’t budge. Tears started running down her cheeks like a snapped string of pearls. The hurt and the frustration she'd been bottling up exploded at once. “Do you even know what respect is?!” “You gave me this bracelet, and you actually hid a tracker in it?!” Her lips trembled. Everything she had worked so hard to keep buried since last night came crashing down. She turned slightly, not wanting him to see her cry, but the more she tried to hold back, the harder it hit h