DEMI
I knock over my coffee when news footage of Liam being led away in handcuffs airs on TV the next morning.
"Oh dear, are you alright?" Mrs. Regan bolts to her feet, wiping off the brown smudge on her new table cloth. I am too distracted to even feel the scalding burn from the spilled coffee on my hand. My eyes remain glued to the TV.
"No. No." I continue to hum. Liam? How could this happen? I reach for my phone and dial his number but it's switched off.
"Demi, do you know him?"
I continue to ignore Mrs. Regan unintentionally while I try to make sense of the shocking news. How did this happen? I thought Ashton has everything handled with respect to the Spellman and Rollins deal? How was Liam exposed as Billion-Err? Does he have a lawyer to fight for his defense? How could his own family throw him under the bus like that?
Ashton's phone is turned off as well when I try it, and this worsens my anxiety.