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Chapter 873 Where is She?
"What's that on your wrist?"
Deirdre’s heart skipped a beat. She retracted her hand immediately as if she had touched something hot, her heart
racing. "What's what?"
Her reaction was unexpected; Brendan was stunned. "Uh, why is it so dirty?
It looks like dust." "Oh!" Deirdre exhaled a breath of relief. He did not see her injury after all. After all the trouble the
scandal had brought to him via the Brighthall Group, the last thing she wanted was for Brendan to be distracted by
her affair. "Er, the wall was a little dusty when I accidentally rubbed my skin against it."
Brendan produced a piece of wet tissue. "I'll help with that."
He gingerly held her wrist with his one hand, but before the wet tissue even made contact, Deirdre suddenly
withdrew hers in a state of nervous panic.
"What's the matter?"
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtDeirdre went quiet, but Brendan thought he understood why she balked.” Sorry. I genuinely only wanted to clean
your hand for you. If you’re not comfortable with it, you’re welcome to help yourself."
He was upset-Deirdre could hear it in his voice. That hurt feeling did not make her loosen her lips, though. She
quietly took the tissue and cleaned her wrist under the table. At times, she accidentally rubbed against her injury,
and a little of that pain would break out of her face and make her lip twitch.
She finished her meal as quickly as she could and rose. "I'm finished. I should go back."
Brendan wished God could give him more time, but he had to admit it was getting late. Besides, he could not risk
being too forward in rekindling their relationship by this point. The only way they could get somewhere was through
slow, steady, baby steps.
"Alright. You get an early rest, okay? If there's anything you'll like me to help with, please don’t hesitate. I will help
you. I promise."
A glint flitted through Deirdre's eyes as she nodded a little anxiously. The warden led her back to the room where
the other ten inmates waited in the corner, their eyes boring into her.
When the warden left after a few words, they relaxed. One of them approached her and pulled Deirdre by her hair.
"Did you snitch?”
Calmly, she shook her head.
The leader was rather pleased. She clapped Deirdre's cheeks. "Good girl. You should be proud of yourself for not
being a snitchin' b*tch, darling, ' cause you just dodged a bullet there. Anyway, you’re sleeping in the corner but
leave your blanket. I'm going to spread it wide on the floor for myself."
Brendan cleared the food from the table and got back to his car. He was about to start the engine, and yet his mind
kept conjuring scenes of Deirdre's overreaction. Something just did not feel right.
She even stayed with him for far longer than she usually did.
He got out of his car and returned to the station.
"McKinnon? Oh, she’s not staying in that individual cell anymore."
Brendan frowned. "Why not?" 'Why else?" the warden replied haplessly. "The scandal she's involved in has grown so
big that the top brass is making sure nobody's giving her any preferential treatment."
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmBrendan's heart sank. "Then where is she now?" "She’s locked up with other female suspects.” "Show me, now!”
It was a chilling night. The cement floor seemed to emanate cold from every inch before prickling Deirdre’s skin as
she sat by herself in the corner. She could not stop shaking.
She could not lean against the wall, or the cold would nip at her. The only thing she could do was curl into a ball, her
arms protecting her belly.
'I have been through worse,' she told herself.
Her days in prison had been far more tormenting than anything this detainment center could throw at her. She was
sure she could survive this if she just steeled herself-but there was no way she would rehash the past.
This time, she would protect her baby.
Sleep overcame her. Slowly, she closed her eyes.
When Brendan ordered the warden to bring him to Deirdre's new cell, he did not expect he would see something
like that.
He did not expect to see the other suspects huddling with one another, snug in their blankets, while Deirdre was
relegated to the corner with her arms around her legs. Her uniform was so thin that she was visibly shivering from
the cold.
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