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"That’s absurd. How long will they keep me here?”

"At least you’re not in a cell, Alec.”

Alec was walking around, his nervousness exhaling through his pores. If Blake saw him like that, he’d say he was waving a flag.

"Sit here." Samuel pulls the empty chair next to him. "Stop getting agitated. It will look guilty.”

It must be because I am. Alec’s luck that thoughts are private.

He sits next to his lawyer, his legs still dangling in such restlessness. It must have been almost an hour ago that they were in there and no one had appeared yet.

"I’ll see if I can find anything and you stay here.”

Samuel barely gets up and Mason enters the room, with the face of very few friends.

"I thought I would have to interrogate myself." Alec mocks, receiving an ugly stare from his lawyer and father-in-law.

"I was with a more important person. Evangeline.”

Alec’s countenance remains the same. Evangeline had no idea what he was going to do in London, so the chances of her saying som