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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impatience in Cedric’s eyes.

of contemplation, Lucas gathered his courage and said,

air fell silent instantly.

time, even though they were separated by soundproof glass, it

of emotions but eventually

his mind was still buzzing, as if he couldn’t hear his

did you say?

Who wa

was still

must have misheard.

slowly, “Ms.

his mind

as if the entire world collapsed and rebuilt itself,

sa

in chaos. It was a tangled mess.

Natalie… Natalie!

was a name It was a name Cedric least wanted to recall in the last two years. Yet, her face

frozen in

heart thumped wildly and beyond his control.

alive echoed in his mind

spoke after a long

at Lucas, who was on the other side of the glass,

“Yes, sir.”

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Lucas added, clearly reminding Cedric that time was

his mind settled on the crucial point: Natalie was

Natalie, Natalie…!

him awake through countless nights

memory. It was a name that haunted him like a

him like a curse.

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

everything.

years ago became a deep abyss he couldn’t escape. But now, Lucas’s message

a scorching sun, instantly illuminating that

his demon and his redemption…!

“She’s alive?”

“Yes, sir.”

Cedric chuckled, a mocking and

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

been

had gone mad in his previous life, keeping her by his

the end.

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