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Mary immediately frowned and looked at her.

Keira pursed her lips, trying to make her gaze seem

softer.

Mary examined her face back and forth, then suddenly stood up, walked over to her, and touched her

forehead.

Keira was dumbfounded.

“You don’t have a fever, so why are you talking nonsense? You refused to tell me who they were back

then, saying it would compromise my safety. Why are you asking me now?”

For the first time, Keira sensed Keera’s caution.

At least regarding this matter, she was very careful.

Keira just said “Right”, her expression unchanged. “I was worried you might have discovered some clue, but it seems you still know nothing. That’s good.”

Sure enough, Mary was led astray. “Keera, you really are too cautious. Didn’t you say? Since you couldn’t even complete their first task, they wouldn’t come

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looking for you again.”

That remark made Keira momentarily stunned. “The

first task?”

“Yes, you said the first task involved someone very important to you, so you refused…”

Someone very important…

Keira frowned. “The very important person to me…

who is it?”

Mary immediately rolled her eyes. “Who else could it be? Howard! You two were already together then.”

She then spoke with a strong hint of jealousy. “Anyway,

it’s not me.”

After saying that, she couldn’t help but complain. “I considered you my best friend; we’ve been to the same school since kindergarten and have stayed friends all these years, but to you, I’m less significant than Amy, let alone your mother-in-law and Howard. For them, you actually abandoned me… Forget it, let’s not talk about it. It makes me feel so sad!”

She was genuinely aggrieved!

Mary pouted.

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Keira wasn’t good at comforting others, so she remained silent. Just then, the sound of the door opening was heard, and Howard’s mother walked in.

Humming a tune from a dance, she didn’t look toward the living room as she entered but headed straight for the kitchen. “Keera, what’s for dinner? I’m hungry after

exercising!”

the kitchen, only to find it completely empty, without a trace

shouting, “Keera, what have you been doing at home all afternoon? What time is it now, and you still haven’ started cooking?

“Oh, isn’t this Mary? Haven’t seen you here in over half a year, huh? What, you’ve come to your

with a facade of a smile.

half a year, somehow you look even

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Step of

faltered,

so rude!”

her hands. “Just telling the

“You!”

in anger and pointed at Keira, saying furiously, “Keera, you’re just going to stand there watching your friend insult me? Let me tell you, her being rude to me is

you’re not to see her again. If you

up when she

at

ago, it was

words made Keera block

outright.

into

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that if her family’s company partnered on a project with

back.

furious at the

was treating her best friend and their

anxious for Keera’s sake, frustrated that she had somehow set her sights on such a

was also

that Keera would be swayed once again by Howard’s mother’s

get arrogant. “Why the silence? Cat g

a deep breath.

matter how anxious Mary was, she knew this

wanting to make things difficult for her,

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now. Contact

she got up

the door. “Okay, let

out.”

made Mary pause slightly, and a sense of emptiness suddenly filled her

made up her mind yet.

the door, then turned back to Keira. “Keera, everything can be fought for again, but freedom is your own.

calm.

not be anxious?

pressuring Keera too

Keira turned back around.

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mother sneered. “What are you

How can

gaze grew colder.

faint smile.

dinner now.”

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