Chapter 164

• Evelyn Warren had no response.
• Not because she was overwhelmed by emotion but because there was no comeback. No actual receipts. Not a cent. Not a single transaction, donation, or gesture that could be verified as “compensation.” She hadn’t given me anything after the broken engagement. Not a thread, not a check nothing.
• Still slumped against her luxury sedan parked just outside Sinclair Tower, she clung to the only tactic she had left: performance.