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Chapter 170
Melody Lee felt her legs wiggle underneath her as she stepped through the grand doors of the family mansion just after eight in the evening, as the weight of another long day at Cloven Tower still clung heavily to her shoulders. Something in her was trembling. It was a kind of fear that she had never experienced. She kicked off her heels to the edge of the foyer and then pulled out her phone before she even reached the stairs. Her fingers trembled slightly as she dialed Michael’s number. It seemed as though she was typing some kind of spell for some dark magic.He answered on the third ring, his voice sounding incredibly lazy and smug. “Hello?What do you want?”“I need to see you,” Melody said, keeping her tone of voice low, with an urgent ring to it. She glanced over her shoulder to make sure the hallway was empty. “Right now.”Michael chuckled from the other end. She could hear soft jazz and the clink of ice pouring into a glass of drink in the background. “Why? I’m lounging in a
Chapter 169
The conference room of Cloven Tower was beginning to feel smaller than it would normally seem, as the pressure in the room made it like invisible walls and lines had appeared right from nowhere—all of which no one could scale, or cross.Nathan who might have been feeling this change in the atmosphere of the place far more than anybody else who was in the room with him in that hour, made his seat at the head of the glass table, with his fingers steepled just before his face, while David Brune worked silently on his laptop. The man did not bother to look at the faces of anybody there.Victor Lee meanwhile paced back and forth, the chime of his tummy hard to ignore from underneath his clothes, as he moved, his face flushed with a barely contained panic.Brune finally looked up, and by the look on his face it was obvious to Nathan that he was about to reveal some soup gripping news. “I just managed to trace the number," he said. "It’s registered to a burner account under the alias ‘Da Don
Chapter 168
Michael continued to stand frozen as the two masked men carrying the black body bag past him, disappeared right behind a door. To where? He did not know. But he was sure that the person in the body bag could very well be him. He could very well be killed like that one day by the men he had saddled himself with, even though the heavy plastic sagging in the middle contained nobody else but Celine Peter.Michael’s voice came out hoarse as he turned to Caeser who was just leaning against the wall. “Have you uncovered anything more about the spies?” he asked, hoping to hear something.Caesar's arms were folded across his chest, the prosthetic one clinking softly as he tapped one arm with it. “Nothing," he said brusquely. " We couldn’t get a single useful word out of that woman. The damn woman held out until her very end.” He shrugged. “And incase you are wondering, we did not kill her...on purpose . She died from the injuries that she sustained from the torture. The whole thing was… thorou
Chapter 167
The whole penthouse smelled like rose as it was filtered in the yellow afternoon light. Champagne flutes were scattered across the marble coffee table, all of which Amelia tried to not shake around as she moved in a practiced motion, sliding onto the sofa right beside Rene. The other six women were half-listening to music and scrolling through their phones as Amelia initiated a conversation with Rene. “Your hair is incredible,” she said, voice feigning to be warm and sincere as she reached out to lightly touch a glossy strand of Rene's hair. “It's so healthy, and also incredibly long. How do you keep it like this?”Rene smiled, flattered. She flipped her hair over one shoulder. “Thank you" she said. "Yours too is gorgeous too, you know. That natural shine? Most girls would kill for it.” She tilted her head, studying Amelia for a quick second. “Why didn’t you ever become a model like Bella and Ava? You have the look. The Seven would’ve been the Eight if you’d wanted it.”Amelia mana
Chapter 166
Nathan stepped into the top-floor conference room of Cloven Tower with the usual calm stride that he typically moved with, but the tension in the air hit him immediately, causing him to be more wary.Victor Lee was already seated at the long glass table in the middle of the room, his face all flushed and serious, while his fists remained clenched on the polished surface. David Brune stood by the window, reviewing a tablet with his brows all furrowed like he was staring at something quote insidious.Nathan's eyes were on Victor Lee. The merger might have been signed, but the old man still carried himself like he owned the building. He did not want to complain, but it dud give him some understanding of the psychological workings beneath the people he was working with. The Lees.Victor didn’t waste time on any pleasantries. “I just received word this morning,” he said with no hook ups. “Money—millions of it—from an offshore account I had no knowledge of was siphoned off into some shady
Chapter 165
Michael’s hand trembled around the grip of the pistol that had been given to him. The metal felt heavier with every second that passed, as the weight pressed down on his soul like a vice. The bound woman in the chair stared up at him, with eyes widened and the glistening of tears on her cheeks reflecting the light of the room around them. But still she said nothing to him, not anything they expected her to say.Michael wondered what was going on in her mind now, if she ever knew she would be in such a position in her life, if she ever knew that the decision she had made would have landed her in exactly this situation, would she have gone through with it?In many ways, she was the same as he was. Both of them were victims on their own decisions. But who really wasn't? Everybody was. Neither he and her were special in any case.He swallowed hard, and forced the question out again, voice cracking despite his effort to sound in control. “What’s your name?” He hoped, and prayed inside of
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