Chapter 109 The Spider's Web

• Elena set the receiver back in its cradle, her pulse still racing, a wide smile tugging at her lips. The landline had worked like a charm. Zara had picked up, her voice soft and trusting, like no time had passed between them at all.
• Relief and triumph curled together inside Elena’s chest like smoke. For weeks she had been nothing more than a discarded shadow, shoved aside by Jayden, spat on by his cruelty. The moment he discovered she had whispered against him during the trial, she had been banished her whole life had turned upside down and her comforts ripped away.
• But now? Now Zara’s accident had shifted the board in Elena’s favor.