Chapter 1421

Yates arched a skeptical brow, seemingly caught off guard by Bernard’s offer.

Was it sheer desperation to save Eleanor, or did he have an ulterior motive?

Yates didn’t trust Bernard all that much, yet he was dying to know who the founder of the Siren Organization really was. His eyes, seasoned by years of life’s trials, spun with the complexity of human nature.

“If you’re playing me, you’ll never see Eleanor again.” The cunning and shrewd always overthink, resorting to threats.

That was what made Yates detestable, and Bernard found it utterly contemptible.

“What right do you have to threaten me now?”

Bernard’s voice, deep and clear, flowed through the intercom into Yates’ ears.

“I’m only negotiating because of my wife.”

The unspoken message was clear: if Eleanor wasn’t in Yates’ clutches, would Bernard even bother with negotiations?

He would have stormed the biozone like he had other territories, capturing Yates without a second thought, not patiently hashing

out terms.

Now, a thoroughly defeated Yates truly had no ground to stand on. He couldn’t possibly harm Eleanor, could he?

After all, how could Yates harm Eleanor, the granddaughter he had finally-found?

But Yates suspected Bernard’s offer was a ruse.

pressed the intercom button again.

me who it is first, then I’ll release Eleanor.”

tinged the indifference

without releasing her? Do you think that’s

come and get

and composed, gave Bernard the location of the escape room.

you’ll

the last resort of a defeated man, and Yates

speechless at this development, almost simultaneously shaking their heads at Bernard, signaling him

his gaze drifting past the 48 corpses lying in glass coffins, towards

it again, you’re in

cold as winter frost, shone with an unearthly glow, hinting at an obscure

better hand over my wife personally, or you’ll

full well that Bernard had the upper hand,

his own right, was loath to be dictated to by a younger man like

to love Eleanor, yet you’re unwilling to come for her yourself.

suggest that if Bernard didn’t personally retrieve

claiming to be her grandfather/why won’t you

had turned into a contest of who could

win

the surveillance footage of Eleanor

been ready to outlast Yates changed his mind

as a leaf despite her pregnancy, her complexion

and blind to the world around her, she

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