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!”

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

head. “Nope, I went through all the

bed last night, she started to think his doubts made

been alone all evening, and with no

to do something sneaky, no

after the video was shown, which seemed a bit

didn’t save it on the

Conto a USB drive?”

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

room to discuss their plan,

got to the office this morning, he

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Chapter 26

he took out an old phone and

up and slightly

and then let the little girl take a nap. Meanwhile, she grabbed two big bags of herbs and rode her motorcycle to

waiting at the entrance of the house. Seeing Briar’s

signaled Brandon

held the bag while leading

wasn’t a single member of the

Ashton had cleared everyone out

in

her

the

back seat: “These are some herbs I prepared for

courtyard; only insects chirping and birds singing could be

Briar, who had her hands in

on his lips without him realizing it. “Briar is

off guard by his smile,

she quickly turned around to look at

here you

on

his

sir, you look

to

your excellent medical

old bones would still be lying around for who

Griffin, Briar started preparing her herbal packages and wrote down

seconds.

and was met with her handwriting that looked no better than random scribbles, and the

stood out just like her personality–somehow

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