He had definitely underestimated her.
When Parker spoke, Lydia couldn’t help lifting an eyebrow. “Me? Their goddaughter?”
Parker frowned. “Isn’t that what happened? You rescued Mr. Norwood by chance, and Cameron and Kylie were so grateful they made you their goddaughter?”
“Who told you that?” Lydia looked at him like he was making it up.
She’d asked her parents to keep her real identity on the down low, but this goddaughter rumor was news to her.
“It was Lucinda. Wait… did she lie to me?” Parker wasn’t an idiot. Lydia’s reaction told him everything he needed to know.
Lydia put it all together.
Lucinda? Really?
“So Lucinda told you I was just the Norwoods’ goddaughter, and that made you think I was nothing to worry about? That you could just get rid of me?”
Parker felt a cold sweat break out along his back. Wasn’t that the truth? Had Lucinda actually played them all?
If she hadn’t said Lydia was just some nobody from nowhere, with no real connection to the Norwoods, Parker never would’ve dared to cross her.
“So ignorant,” Lydia said, not bothering to waste another word on him. She turned and left the interrogation room without looking back.
Byron was dying to know what Lydia’s real relationship with the Norwood family was, but right now, something else was more important.
“Miss Norwood, wait a sec!”
He rushed after her.
Lydia stopped and looked over her shoulder. “Yes?”
Byron jogged up, feeling weirdly nervous. “You… you don’t remember me? You helped us with a case before. I’m Byron.”
God, this was his first time talking face to face with the legendary hacker L. His heart was pounding.


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