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This was a conversation that needed to happen.
It was half-past eight when Hugh finally placed his fork down, signaling the end of the meal.
Freya had eaten, but she hadn't done much else. With the cook off for the day, it seemed only right that she help
clean up.
But before she could move, Hugh rose, taking the dishes from the table. “You and Sheila go watch TV. I'll take
care of this,” Hugh insisted.
Freya didn’t argue. He was determined, and she let him have his way. On the sofa, Ethel nibbled on fruit, her
eyes narrowing with curiosity as she glanced at Freya. “Mina, what's the secret between you and Dad that | don’t
know? Don’t just brushoff with ‘you're still young’; I'm almost twenty, you know.”
“Ill tell you later,” Freya responded, a faint smile curving her lips. The two of them sat together on the sofa—one
engrossed in the TV, the other quietly contemplating the conversation yet to come.
Fifteen minutes later, Hugh returned, having finished cleaning up. He settled onto a single sofa and turned to
Freya, his voice gentle. “What did you want to talk about?”
“I'm going to send Edwin Newman to prison,” Freya said bluntly, her words coming out like a calm declaration.
“If everything goes as planned, he'll be sentenced to ten to twenty years.”
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Hugh and Ethel exchanged looks of surprise, then both blurted out in unison, “That's it?”
Freya frowned. Wasn't this something Hugh cared about?
“Handle him however you need to,” Hugh reassured her, his voice steady. “Don’t let it weigh on you.”
Freya felt a weight lift from her chest. “Alright.”
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“Anything else?”
“No.”
“Oh, okay,” Hugh replied simply.
The conversation meandered on, brief and intermittent.
Ethel sighed, observing the exchange.
Her father, a master of smooth talk in the business world, seemed at a loss for words with her sister.
“Dad, didn’t you say you'd deal with Kristian at Lionel’s birthday party in Jeucwell on the 15th?” Ethel probed,
trying to find another topic.
“Have you figured out how to handle it?”
Hugh hesitated, his gaze flicking toward Freya.
Ethel caught the shift. “Why are you looking at Mina when | asked the question?”
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“Impossible!” Hugh retorted, instinctively defensive.
Ethel’s grin was mischievous.
Freya glanced over, and Hugh felt a brief pang of panic.
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