Chapter 925

"I won't let the fire touch you," I promised, trying to ease the tension crackling between us like an unseen flame.

"It's not myself I'm worried about, it's you!" Harvey had his evidence for self- preservation, sure, but at this moment, his concern for Avery was genuine.

Human nature, always a complex beast.

"What's there to fear? Over the years, I've faced horrors, committed sins, and dwelled in the shadows," Avery said, his voice barely above a whisper. His pale, trembling eyelids lowered as he reached out with his slender, clean hands, grasping at the air as if chasing butterflies, yet catching nothing.

After a moment, his arms fell to his sides, fists clenched yet powerless. "Now, all I wish for is to see Evadne again in this lifetime."

*

The hitman was caught, and Mrs. Jones was safely transferred to a hospital under the KS Group's care.

source of the messages in just a few hours—a task completed more efficiently than by the police tech team. After all, he was

silent in the early hours. On the bedroom floor, a man's trousers, shirt, and belt

his sturdy chest. Their cheeks were flushed with post-coital bliss, and they slept soundly, exhausted from days of meticulous planning and

Thaddeus had insisted, and she had obliged, feeding his desires until she no longer had the energy to even shower,

on the nightstand began to ring, one

slumber with Evadne in his arms. He opened his eyes

his heart melting at the

forever

something urgent, yet not wanting to wake Evadne, Thaddeus reached over her to grab the phone, seeing it was Elvis calling. He tiptoed to the living

"Elvis, it's me."

you guys? Sorry," Elvis's voice was raspy, laden

fine, Evadne's still

his silk robe falling open to reveal his chiseled

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