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 Camden came t of Briar’s

went through all the files on Briar’s computer, but couldn’t find last

Beatrice hadn’t believed her brother’s suspicions, but lying in bed last

alone all evening, and with no servants upstairs, if

to do something sneaky, no one would

Briar appeared just after the video was shown,

suggested, “Maybe she didn’t save it on the computer but copied

Conto a USB drive?”

nodded. “Could be. We’ll have to find another chance to

room to discuss their plan, Edgar

to the office this morning, he locked himself inside

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Chapter 26

drawer at the bottom of his desk, he took out an old phone and dialed

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

with Ellen and then let the little girl take a nap. Meanwhile,

at the entrance of the

and signaled Brandon to pick up Wade. Take

the bag while leading Briar

single member

seemed that Ashton had cleared

already waiting in Griffin’s

from afar, he greeted her with a

the

hanging on the back seat: “These are some herbs I prepared for

chirping and birds singing could be

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

on his lips without him realizing

caught off guard by his smile,

quickly turned around to look at Griffin

“Briar, here

on

his

you look much better

to

your excellent medical

old bones would still be

preparing her herbal packages and wrote down instructions for use on labels

seconds.

looked no better than random scribbles, and the smile at

stood out just like her personality–somehow cute

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