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After Estelle left, Jonathan sat on the couch, lighting up a cigarette, and said to Sylvia, “You’ve done well. Go get some rest.”

Sylvia poured herself a glass of wine and strolled to the floor-to-ceiling window to gaze out at the night lights of Zion. In such a sprawling, sleepless city, where could Gab be?

Was he really in Zion?

She turned to Jonathan and said, “Mr. Jarvis, the Mystoria Federation under your control, as well as Gab’s Silver Valley, are both havens. Let’s make Citadel a haven, too.”

She had first met Gab in Citadel.

Back then, there was a place called Red Grotto, notorious for auctioning off young girls, and she was among those being sold.

Sold by her parents—more precisely, her adoptive parents—and taken from the border, after an arduous journey, she ended up in Citadel, the so-called hell on earth.

Gab was ten years older than her. At just eighteen, he was already a young man of steady and profound disposition.

When he passed by the cage she was locked in, she reached out and clung to the hem of his coat. He turned and said coldly, “Let go!”

She didn’t relent, gripping tightly, her eyes pleading with him in silence.

He shook off her hand harshly and walked away without looking back.

watched his retreating figure in

she was being auctioned off, he bought her for

murky auction house. He walked ahead, and she followed his every step timidly

and to the young girl

he told her, “From today on, you’re mine. But I should warn you, life with me

her head firmly.

that he wouldn’t hurt her—a naive thought

a

was never a haven, and its people

frowned slightly, about to speak, when suddenly Alvis’s man came in to report on the investigation

by the age of twenty-two, then spent

mercenaries and took part in a peacekeeping

over, he withdrew

he returned to the Brennan family as the heir apparent.Books Chapters Are Daily Updated Join & Stay Updated For All

direct descendant, he was highly valued by his family, and he was indeed exceptional in his

might be in a man’s nature, but when it came to his contributions to the

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