From Sneers to Cheers: Anthea’s Ascent

Chapter 511

Anthea frowned slightly. "So, did Lorraine ever find Ivy's Place in the end?"

"No," Sherman replied, shaking his head. "Lorraine waited here for over thirty years, but her child vanished as if they'd never existed."

The two of them were deep in conversation, and the driver, sensing their focus, slowed the car to give them more time.

...

Rebecca was falling apart.

It had been fourteen hours since she'd left Tech Summit Global, and the system still wasn't responding.

Had it really disappeared?

What was she supposed to do now?

She sat slumped on the couch, fingers tangled in her hair, her features twisted in distress, looking every bit like someone on the edge of a breakdown.

It took a long time before she finally calmed herself enough to breathe. She

opened her laptop, determined to at least log in to TechNet.

The system's last task for her had been to conquer the tech world. Maybe, if she logged on, the system would come back on its own.

She navigated to the login page, typed in her password, and hit enter.

And then her face went completely white.

A notice flashed across the screen: her account had been permanently banned.

What was happening?

Was the system malfunctioning?

was no reason for her account to be banned-she hadn't

this had to be

computer and tried

result

was truly, irreversibly

message to Mason's assistant-the only acquaintance she had left

a single task at Tech Summit Global, and over ten thousand

so your account has been

was it. As of today, Phoenix_Re no longer existed in the tech

this be

erase

another message to the assistant, but this time, she saw she'd

to kick

Rebecca screamed, hurling her

Crack-

into a spiderweb

her knees,

had never felt

for had been stolen

had been nothing but a pitiful loser beneath her

had it all come

Rebecca

system returned, she'd find a way to destroy Anthea once and for

long she called,

...

car stopped at

and headed inside

the floor numbers flicker by, Sherman turned to

need to visit the Kendrick

the

"Around eight-thirty. I'll head downstairs for breakfast at

probably didn't even realize it herself, but she wasn't resisting Sherman at all anymore. She didn't mind his company, or even that unexpected embrace-and that