What was strange was that Marcus seemed to have vanished into thin air. Robert came to Jangasas to secretly deliver the news to him. “Sir, our people have basically flipped Centrolis over, but Marcus can’t be found anywhere.”

Zephyr’s expression was icy cold. How could a living person be gone out of the blue!? Now that he was nowhere to be found, Zephyr had already thought of the worst.

“Continue searching in Centrolis!” He gnashed his teeth. “I suspect that Uncle Matthew’s already found him first. They’ll definitely find someone to ambush me if they want to do something!”

“Sir…” Robert widened his eyes, looking nervous.

“Don’t worry about me,” Zephyr instructed, “Cordelia, though… Get a few reliable men to watch her going to and leaving work. Her safety is your top priority!”

“Got it!”

Zephyr felt chills down his spine all of a sudden after saying that.

Whether it was Matthew, Yale, or other Hamertons considering conspiring, he had never been scared, even if there was a direct confrontation. This time, however, he was scared.

He and Cordelia were out in the open while they were lurking in the shadows. If they could not lay a finger on him, they would certainly target Cordelia.

lips together. His sculpted face was

from

exchanged a look before he pressed his cap lower and ran out. As Cordelia went past

“You’re done with work?”

retracted her gaze and hooked her arms with

it felt empty. It was currently leisure hours after people went off work,

barely lessened. The cakes and desserts in the glass case by the bar had not been

and a wash of disappointment

“Honey, what’s wrong?”

a smile. “Business hasn’t been good

about whether the business was good since the beginning. The purpose of opening this shop was just

how

and Fredric to get more customers over these days. While he thought about it, he heard Cordelia huff. “Someone must be

“What?” Zephyr paused.

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