Betrayed, Then Back For Blood

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!”

it, Camden? Find anything?” As soon as Camden came t of Briar’s room, Beatrice pulled him

went through all the files on Briar’s computer, but

but lying in bed last night, she started to think

all evening, and with no servants upstairs,

do something sneaky,

video was shown, which seemed a bit too

“Maybe she didn’t save it

Conto a USB drive?”

We’ll have to find another chance to check her

to discuss their plan, Edgar wasn’t idle

the office this morning, he locked himself

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desk, he took out an old phone and dialed the only

was very respectful, standing up and slightly bowing even though he knew Mr. Garza couldn’t see

girl take a nap. Meanwhile, she grabbed two

entrance of the house. Seeing Briar’s

and signaled Brandon

held the bag while

wasn’t a single member of the

had

already waiting in Griffin’s

he greeted her

the

back seat: “These are some herbs I prepared

courtyard; only insects chirping and birds singing could be

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

lips without him

was caught off guard by

quickly turned around to look at Griffin

“Briar, here you

on

his

you look much

to

your excellent medical

would still be lying around for who knows

with Griffin, Briar started preparing her herbal packages and wrote down instructions for use on labels quickly–finishing each

seconds.

Ashton walked over and was met with her handwriting that looked no better than

like her personality–somehow cute despite being messy,‘ he thought to