"Get your ass back here!"

She yelled, then immediately feared attracting the attention of reporters and quickly slammed the door shut.

Recalling her assistant's words, she dug through the chaos to find her phone.

The top trending news had changed - Bella denies Summer's lineage.

Summer felt her strength leave her. At that moment, unable to focus on anything else, she instinctively dialed Mark's number...

The call went unanswered until the cold, mechanical voice of the voicemail greeted her.

Summer, relentless, dialed again and again.

But each time, no answer, just the automatic hang-up.

"Argh!!!" Summer screamed in frustration and despair, and in a fit of rage, she threw her phone against the wall, shattering its screen.

This time, it wasn't that Mark didn't want to answer; he simply couldn't.

Even though the phone was right in front of him.

Gregory lounged on the central couch as if he owned the place, legs casually propped up, showing none of the respect due to a host's home.

sit on

his coffee, holding the

determined to win

to throw the hot liquid in Mark's face. Instead, their cups

approached, whispering to

nook or cranny, and even employed devices for a

the time they came to Mark's place, they had already searched everywhere he had been, his

fury flashed

He set his

it to

aside

Subted aside, not wantin

be splattered with blood.

in the presence of someone

it in

flinch,

gaze. "If

But you'll never find

acupuncture might seem to have delayed the poison, but it hasn't suppressed it. It's almost f integrated into her bloodstream by now. It'll act within two days, and it'll be excruciating. Gregory, don't be so confident, as if everything is under your

bat tightened, the veins

he cracked a

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