Chapter 605 The Price of Obsession

“Nathan, if you touch a single hair on her head, I’ll tear your entire Frost Pack apart.

“Oh, don’t be so fierce,” he replied lightly, as if amused. “I just wanted to see you. After all… I’ve prepared a rather special gift.”

The call ended with a soft click.

Tessa’s fist clenched at her side, knuckles white. Samuel watched her with concern. “What now? Should we call Landon?”

“Not yet.” Tessa shook her head. Landon was in the middle of the Elders‘ Council–he couldn’t afford distraction. “I’m calling someone else.”

She dialed a secured line. The voice on the other end was aged and cautious.

“Tessa?”

“Nathan took my friend,” she said bluntly. “I know you want him to get help. We can make a deal.”

There was a pause on the other end. Jeremy was clearly weighing his options.

“What kind of deal?”

sees the psychiatrist you’ve chosen.” Tessa’s voice was calm but firm. “You know as well as I do–if this keeps going, he’ll destroy the Song

Since then, he’d spiraled into a darkness that no

the line. “Fine. I agree. But

he stops acting like a

the words, her fingers tapped the edge of the table, cold

understood the truth behind her composed tone. It was a temporary lie- a

in a low voice, “You really plan to spare

Pack’s power

to kill Nathan to secure

as pawns, and one who once sent assassins to take her life. From the start, she had never intended to let either of them walk

dropped off at the doorstep of the medical organization’s

jaw tightened. “Nathan said even if he let me go, he’d still find a way

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calm but filled with unshakable resolve. “Get some rest. What comes

That night. Landon called.

council meeting, but the moment he

sipping porridge. “I struck a

catching her meaning. “Nathaniel already sent you the Frost Pack infrastructure

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