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Edgar didn’t utter a word and looked at her with a livid face.

“Edgar, hear me out…” Nancy fumbled for an explanation, “You’re reading too much into it. It was just

idle chit–chat.”

Cold sweat was breaking out across her forehead, uncertain of how much of her conversation with Sarah he had actually overheard, so she decided to play dumb.

“What are you going to do?”

Edgar brushed aside her attempt at explanation, a ruthless glint in his eyes.

That icy stare, that frosty tone, could it be that he had heard it all?!

Nancy’s hand instinctively clenched the corner of the quilt.

“It’s nothing, I was just chewing the fat with a friend. Don’t you trust me?”

Edgar paid no heed to her doe–eyed pleas, his piercing gaze seeming to see right through her: “You should know, even if you keep mum, I can send someone to dig up the truth. But by then, you’ll be out of luck.”

He kept toying with his wristwatch, his face a mask, hiding any emotions that might give him away. This poker face of his put Nancy even more on edge.

She bit her lip, realizing she couldn’t weasel her way out of his line of questioning. Tears welled up in her eyes as she started to choke back sobs.

“Edgar! I can’t stomach this anymore! Sylvia divorced you, and yet you still have her in your good Sylvias! I’ve hardly ever set foot in that bay–side villa, let alone lived there! Yet you transferred the deed

to her.

“During the Mellis Group banquet last time, she shamed me. She even had the audacity to lay a hand on

me this time, I was just a hair’s breadth away from losing my chastity!

“Edgar! I despise her, I truly do! I just wanted to knock her down a peg or two. What’s so wrong about

that?”

She threw herself into Edgar’s arms, trying to play the damsel in distress, but he simply furrowed his brow and steadied her.

“I’m going to ask you one last time, where is Sylvia?”

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tone

saying I can’t hold a candle to that woman who doesn’t even have anything to do with you anymore?”

you being so cold–hearted? I’m the one

fleeting trace of weariness shone through his

be different. You’ve disappointed me too much.”

leaving Nancy weeping

corridor was eerily quiet, with

out his cell phone and dialed a number.

send me in the next ten

of downtown, taking a shortcut towards

backstreet devoid of surveillance cameras and traffic lights,

ears gave

ride. She still had something important to do and couldn’t afford to soak in

engine roaring

the screen and smoothly tapped her bluetooth earpiece to pick up.

and meet at the

at the GPS and

it with the photo sent by Dark Bell, confirming it was the same vehicle used by the kidnappers to

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a clump of bushes and

cabin was nestled deep within the forest. From

to a

her stride and barged into

who’s in a hurry,” came a voice.

in a thick

feet,

a flash of icy determination crossed her

her go first, and

up a chair, and took a seat, her gaze nonchalantly fixed on

kidnapper was irritated by her behavior. He roughly hoisted the unconscious Abigail,

to her neck.

me when you’re here to save her? Believe it or not, I’ll kill

“You won’t dare.”

his gaze head–on, her fearlessness inexplicably unnerving him.

all fragile and delicate but carried an unwavering calm as

her.

face was a picture of bewilderment.

just outside the cabin, surveying the scene within through a pair

kidnapper unknowingly had a bug on his cap, prepared in advance by Sarah, which allowed her to hear every word

could she rescue her out

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