Chapter 256 The Stubborn Girl

Time flew by like a swift shuttle.

A massive fire had altered the lives of all those involved.

Two years later, the world’s top tier commercial speech event in Simeria dazzled everyone…

Lucas hurriedly entered Verde City Prison to see Cedric. Two years had transformed the man into

someone cold and steady.

“What’s the matter?” Cedric asked with an icy tone upon seeing Lucas.

It had been two years.

Since the day Rebecca left, Cedric hadn’t met anyone else apart from those from the company.

In the meantime, Rebecca had tried numerous times to reach out, but Cedric rejected every attempt. He

even turned away calls from Simeria.

Lucas had visited countless times during this period, but his serious expression now was a first.

Cedric thought something might be wrong with the company.

“It’s not about the company,” Lucas sa d as she shook his head.

Cedric frowned, “Then what?”

Lucas looked at him with complex emotions in his eyes. Obviously, the unexpected news had left everyone at a loss for words.

When Rebecca had first learned of it, she didn’t know how to break it to Cedric. It was beyond surprising.

and it was downright… hateful!

In the past two years, Christina had been sentenced to prison for life, and Cedric had paid a heavy price.

Yet, the person who was supposed to be dead…..!

It was a deception.

A blatant deception!

“Just leave it if you’re not going to talk, Cedric said, about to hang up.

“Wait,” Lucas stopped him in time.

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obvious impatience in

moment of contemplation, Lucas gathered his courage

fell

separated by soundproof

went through a storm of emotions but eventually calmed

spoke, his mind was still buzzing,

did you say?

Who wa

still

have misheard.

at Cedric and said slowly, “Ms. Walker, sir,

moment, his mind seemed to explode!

felt as if the entire world collapsed and rebuilt itself, repeating the

sa

chaos. It was

Natalie… Natalie!

was a name Cedric least wanted to recall in the last two years.

frozen in the sea

thumped wildly and

words about her being alive echoed in his mind

alive?” Cedric finally spoke after a

who was on the other side of the glass, to confirm that he hadn’t heard wrongly.

“Yes, sir.”

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she seems to be with Mr. Frazier!” Lucas added, clearly reminding Cedric that time

the chaos in his mind settled on the crucial point:

Natalie, Natalie…!

name that kept him awake through countless nights behind iron bars.

painful yet unforgettable memory. It was

like a

the name he couldn’t let go of–the name that tortured him into wanting to

everything.

deep abyss he couldn’t escape.

sun, instantly illuminating that dark pit.

was his demon

“She’s alive?”

“Yes, sir.”

Cedric chuckled, a mocking and mad glint in his

residue of time in his eyes gradually lightened, revealing uncontainable joy and a hint

been a full two years.

years ago, he went mad in Simeria, like how he had gone mad in

until the

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