Chapter 645

Sylvia supposed that there was not much else she could do if Odell would not listen.

She shot a glare at him, then promptly turned to leave. Just as she reached the door and raised her hand to turn the door knob, his raspy voice suddenly traveled across the room to her. “When Spencer kidnapped the two of you, I wanted to choose to spare you the entire time.” Sylvia froze for a moment and hissed sharply. “Odell, do you think I’m blind and deaf?” Even now, she could remember how he had pointed at her first, then changed his choice to Tara after a mere two-second pause. She remembered how he had reaffirmed that his final choice was Tara!

“I tried to negotiate with him and offered him a lot of terms. I even told him that I’d sacrifice myself if he’d let you two walk free. He didn’t agree to my terms and instead, required me to choose between you two. He only wanted to use your lives to exact revenge on me.”

Sylvia pursed her lips and stayed quiet.

Odell’s voice turned into a low, magnetic tremor. “When he told me to choose to let one of you live, I was convinced that he was laying a trap on me. I believed that he was deliberately allowing me to choose the one I cared about most to walk free, just so he could kill that person right in front of me. I was fully expecting him to resort to such dirty tactics.”

about the most. He was afraid that if he had chosen her, Spencer would execute her right then and there. Was this why he ended up changing his choice to

be convinced of the logic behind this ridiculous tale?! She stopped trying to figure out the consistency of the story he spun and announced, “I don’t care about any of that anymore. You don’t have

was when the door opened

wad

and

Corporation’s eventual downfall going around, all of Odell’s relatives spun all kinds of excuses to avoid him. Even Tara who claimed to love him and could not survive without him only came to him to demand the rights to his property. Amid all this, it was only Sylvia who made the effort to come to see him not once, but twice. The first time was with the

admirable how she never asked for a single penny

had hurt

It seemed extremely unlikely that she did not care

a faint shadow of a

and remarked, “Even the missus has come to see you. Do you think you could

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