No Strings Attached

She pulled out her phone from her pocket and sent a message. [Met him, but he's wary of me. Can't get close.]

The man read the message, with a devilish smirk playing on his lips. "If it were that easy to fool him, he wouldn't be lan." The assistant nodded with a smile. "I reckon lan will dig into Zora's background next. He won't trust her that easily."

The man scoffed, "I'll make him believe."

lan stepped out of the café and immediately instructed Dawson, "Look up this girl named Zora."

"Did you notice anything unusual when you met her?" Dawson inquired.

lan's eyes narrowed slightly. "It's precisely because I didn't, which makes it strange. It's like she knew the answers to all the questions beforehand, and she felt unfamiliar, not like No. 11." Dawson started the car, glancing at lan in the rearview mirror. "If she's an impostor, then where is the real No. 11, and how could they know your secrets?"

The thought made lan worry. He hoped No. 11 wouldn't get involved in this.

by a nightmare in the early morning. She dreamed of her mother lying in a pool of blood, reaching out to her. Tears glistened in her

pained moans. Clara sat up abruptly in bed, gasping for air, a thin

hearing the noise, anxiously asking,

eyes. "I dreamed of Mom covered in

Once the case with Katherine is closed, the sentence will be carried out, and your mom will rest in peace."

her hair. "How could she? She chose him for you. She'd

didn't

l.ne

her. My brother said Mom was clutching that necklace when she died. I think she must have known Leonora was the culprit

this, Casey was at a loss for words. May clutching that necklace at her death was always

Clara's back,

to lan, you two love each other so much, and you even have a chilel together. Would you

Casey. "Dad, I can't bear to leave him. He's my entire youth, the man I've loved for seven years. I can't bear to