The Divorced Military Queen Awakens (by Sadie Baxter) novel Chapter 279

Chapter 279 Hidden Evidence

Chapter 279 Hidden Evidence

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Julius burst into the suite looking ghost–white. Quinn stared at him in astonishment. “Julius?” she asked. “What are you doing here?”

“Fabian told me you came here with bodyguards. I was worried, so I came to check,” he said, hurrying closer. A hard edge glittered in his eyes when they flicked toward Marley.

“I never thought Marley would be hiding a video taken after Rowan’s accident,” Quinn said.

Judging from Rowan’s condition in the video, along with the fact that the setting was in Doria, she concluded that he had somehow ended up there after the fire at the border–for reasons still unknown. In the footage, he appeared to be pleading with the person in the car for help.

“A video?” Julius echoed, stunned. Quinn handed him her phone. The file Marley had sent her began to play at once.

Color drained from Julius‘ face. His hand shook so badly the small device might as well have weighed a thousand kilograms. Marley had kept footage from five years ago, footage that could shatter Quinn’s world.

“Marley, I am asking one last time,” Quinn barked. “Who was in the back seat? You traveled with them, so you must know.”

On the video, Rowan shouted to the rear bench, waving like a drowning man. Two men climbed from the lead car, hauled him away, and tossed him onto the roadside as if he were cargo.

The memory of that moment clawed at Quinn’s chest. Rowan, her proud and indomitable brother whose skills had once seemed unbeatable, must have been pushed far beyond exhaustion to be subdued by only two strangers, then flung aside like broken freight.

The instant Julius crossed the threshold, Marley understood she was finished. The look he leveled at her was like staring at a dead person. Even if she kept silent, the mere act of exposing that clip to Quinn had. already condemned her.

“Fine,” Marley cried, gambling everything she had left. “Quinn, you want the name of the man in that seat? Protect my life and I will tell you.”

Before Quinn could answer, Julius cut in. “Quinnie, let me investigate. You do not need a word from this woman. I will find Rowan, I swear.”

The urgency in his voice matched the wild panic flickering across his handsome features, a desperation Quinn had never seen there before.

“Julius, what-” Quinn began.

Julius snapped, “Gag Marley and take her out.”

The bodyguards who had accompanied Quinn clamped a hand over Marley’s mouth and dragged her toward the corridor.

Marley thrashed with every ounce of strength. She knew that once they crossed that threshold she was finished. Her resistance, however, changed nothing.

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Chapter 279 Hidden Evidence

At the doorway Quinn’s voice rang out. “Wait!”

The two guards froze.

“Let Marley go for now.” Quinn said.

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