A Film Queen

Chapter 107 Shadow Palace.

A drunken Milly was clingier than George had imagined.

She was like a child without a sense of security, only able to fall asleep when she held onto his sleeve while he stood by the bed.

Even in her sleep, she curled up in protective posture, and her brows were slightly furrowed. Her delicate face was filled with vulnerability and distance, like mermaid foam that would shatter with a touch.

George experienced a sharp pain in his heart, similar to a tight squeeze.

What had she been through?

If not for this drunken state, he might never have seen through the sunny, carefree façade she usually wore. It was now clear that she wasn’t the real her.

Regardless of which side was real, she was the woman he had chosen as the future mistress of the Tates and his future wife.

Knock, knock, knock, came a light tapping on the door.

George straightened up, regaining his usual calm and noble demeanour.

He opened the door to find a man with a deep scar on his face standing there. The man nodded slightly upon seeing him and reported, “Master, I’ve found out everything.”

George’s eyes turned cold, signalling for him to be quiet.

He looked back at the sleeping girl in the room to make sure he hadn’t disturbed her. Then, he quietly closed the door behind him.

“Speak. What’s going on?”

Scarface reported respectfully, “Master, just as you suspected, they’re planning a secret auction. They’re auctioning off an experimental subject from Maldonia. This is the only subject left in the world since the closure of that perverse lab.

Hearing this, George’s eyes flashed with a fierce, icy light.

He knew something was off when an obscure small family business’s event attracted so many high–profile guests. There had to be something more.

But he hadn’t expected they’d be bold enough to auction off an experimental subject.

Scarface hesitated. He looked at George and began, “Master…”

George wore a blank face and urged, “Speak your mind.”

learned that the Ghost Sect will also attend the auction. They are determined to acquire the experimental subject. If we

eyes darkened.

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The Ghost Sect?

always cross

out, “Whatever it takes, get the experimental subject.

of them that come

in acknowledgment

stood by the window on the 21st

he was a child. His

of his childhood memories were filled with

was captivating. When he was a child, he believed there were eleven great unsolved mysteries in the world, the eleventh being: how did his gentle, beautiful grandmother

his studies, with the ultimate dream of creating an

Rosa died in Maldonia

grandmother, raised in a household of privilege, become involved

but the Ghost Sect was elusive and filled with highly skilled members, making it nearly

they think he’d give up just because

most of his fortune to establish the Shadow Palace in Nlirone. George vowed to make the Ghost Sect pay in

the truth was unattainable, then it didn’t matter. The elimination

Would it?

it wasn’t her own,

what a

time that she

Have some

magnetic voice broke

been about to drift back to sleep, snapped

Who’s speaking!

at that? Why is

my

house?

that thought, Milly shot up from the bed and looked towards the source of

sitting on the couch in a suit. He crossed his legs and held a document in one hand. The ordinary gray pen in his grip appeared considerably more elegant due to his

“You

break into my place? I’ll call

relieved to see she was still wearing what she

are still the same.