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.

deliberation, Yates finally pressed the intercom button

first,

smirk tinged the indifference in

Do you think

and

composed, gave Bernard the

biozone corridor, behind the square white wall, you’ll

a defeated man, and Yates exemplified this to the

this development, almost simultaneously shaking their heads

48 corpses

say it again, you’re in no position

winter frost, shone with an unearthly glow,

you’ll get no information, and your people will die.”

upper

was

unwilling to come for her yourself. How

Bernard didn’t personally retrieve Eleanor, his love was

grandfather/why

into a contest of who could be more

would always win such a

further, simply broadcasted the surveillance footage of Eleanor to

outlast Yates changed his mind the instant he saw Eleanor. His pupils contracted sharply.

sat alone on the bed, fragile as a leaf despite her pregnancy,

and blind to the world around her, she

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