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?”

Nathan 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

died. Since then, he’d spiraled into a darkness

the line. “Fine. I agree. But you must swear–you

stops acting like a lunatic, I have no

she said the words, her fingers tapped the edge of the table, cold light still

behind her composed tone.

she ended the call, he asked in a low voice, “You really plan to

a mirthless smile, her eyes sliding over the Frost Pack’s

only agreed not to kill

Thorne family and used her and Landon 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

was dropped off at the

even if he let me go, he’d still find a way

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The

she stumbled, her voice calm but filled with unshakable resolve. “Get

That night. Landon called.

with fatigue from the council meeting, but the moment he saw her

phone up to show Lina on the couch, sipping porridge. “I struck a deal with Jeremy. He let her go, I promised to get Nathan

meaning. “Nathaniel already sent

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