Betrayed, Then Back For Blood

Chapter 27

Chapter 26

Chapter 26

“Good morning. Briar!”

Standing still, Briar looked at the little girl whose complexion had visibly improved. Her tone softened, “Morning, why the sudden interest in morning

runs?”

Ellen had been running for a few days now. Due to her weak constitution, she would get out of breath easily after running. “My brother said I’m too weak, so he told me to run for an hour every morning to build up my health.”

Briar nodded. “Yeah, your brother’s right. Proper exercise

Ellen’s eyes lit up at her words. “Mm–hmm!”

helpsody and can even help you grow taller.”

Having suffered from malnutrition since childhood, Ellen was much shorter than her peers. So when Briar mentioned running could help her grow taller, she became even more determined to stick to her morning runs.

“Huh? Briar, why are you buying so many herbs? Are you feeling unwell?” As Briar unloaded stuff from her motorcycle, the considerate little girl hurried over to help.

Seeing all sorts of herbs in the bags, she thought Briar was sick and

with concern.

Briar carried the bags into the house without looking back. “Not for

me, just helping a friend buy them.”

“That’s good to hear. Being sick is so uncomfortable.” Ellen followed Briar into the house, placing the bags on the coffee table as instructed.

With a little helper, Briar decided to sort out all the herbs

at

once.

They worked until around 10 a.m., finally sorting and packing all the herbs, with the coffee table now piled high.

Briar stretched and asked Ellen, “What’s your nanny making for lunch today?”

This meant she was planning to have lunch with Ellen.

Ellen immediately beamed, enthusiastically recommending, “Our nanny’s making pizza and hot chicken wings today. Briar, my nanny’s dishes are super delicious! You have to try it.”

“Alright, let’s go!”

As soon as Camden came t of Briar’s room, Beatrice pulled

shook his head. “Nope, I went through all the files on Briar’s computer, but

lying in bed last night, she started to

been alone all evening, and with no servants

something sneaky,

just after the video was shown, which seemed a

she didn’t save it

Conto a USB drive?”

nodded. “Could be. We’ll have to find

in their room to discuss their plan, Edgar

as he got to the office this morning, he locked himself inside and even turned off

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Chapter 26

took out an old phone and dialed the only number

and slightly

had lunch with Ellen and then let the little girl take a nap. Meanwhile, she grabbed two big bags of herbs and rode her

the entrance of

signaled Brandon to pick

the bag while

there wasn’t a single member

seemed that Ashton had

was already waiting in Griffin’s room,

from afar, he greeted her with a wide smile,

the

herbs hanging on the back seat: “These are some

courtyard; only insects chirping and birds singing could

walked in, Ashton immediately looked over at Briar, who had her

on his lips without him realizing it. “Briar is here,”

was caught off guard by his smile, greeting,

turned around

chuckled. “Briar, here you are;

on

his

you

to

your excellent medical

else my old bones would still

her herbal packages and wrote down instructions for use on labels

seconds.

met with her handwriting that looked no better

out just like her personality–somehow

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