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.

skills to trace the owner of the phone number and the source of the messages in just a few hours—a task completed more efficiently than

hours. On the bedroom floor, a man's trousers, shirt, and belt were entangled with a woman's dress and

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

no longer

the phone on the nightstand began to ring, one ring after another,

with Evadne in his arms. He opened his eyes slowly, while the little woman beside him merely hmmed and turned over,

thought, his heart melting at the

forever

her to grab the phone, seeing it was Elvis calling.

"Elvis, it's me."

I wake you guys? Sorry," Elvis's voice was

Evadne's still

the couch, his silk robe falling open to

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