Chapter 175

Leslie and Alicia told Jessica to explain everything that had happened and how it had unfolded. She went on to explain how her aunt had suddenly disappeared and how she had also been kidnapped out of the blue.

Alicia was so furious that she made Jessica swear to allow the woman to serve the maximum sentence. Both women were outraged by the situation. After a bit of comforting here and there, they both left.

Jessica wondered where Xavier was. They had arrived together, but he had left her to spend some private time with the girls. She went upstairs and entered the room.

She saw Xavier sleeping peacefully on the bed, his chest rising and falling so rhythmically that she felt like lying down on it. She walked to the bed, sat on it, and inched closer to him. She studied his features as they rested on his face.

When she first met him, s