Chapter 424:

Kristian turned to Freya and gave her a quiet nod, signaling that it was safe to enter.

Freya stepped into the room, and the moment Alan saw her, he charged at her and pulled her into a tight hug. “Mina! Thank God you’re okay! I was terrified he’d killed you!”

Both Freya and Kristian stood in silence, caught off guard by the bizarre display.

“I’ve already made peace with him,” Freya said, humoring Alan’s drunken delusions, her voice calm and flat. “Now sit down. I’ll whip up something to flush the poison out of your system.”

“Okay,” Alan mumbled. He shuffled to the couch, slumped over, and promptly passed out.

Freya frowned.

Just as she was about to prepare some honey water, her eyes landed on a shattered phone lying on the floor.

Her mind went into a spin. “Is that your phone?” she asked.

Kristian said with a shrug, his voice

made a silent vow to get her cousin off alcohol for good. He was nothing

might need a favor from you later,” Kristian said,

everything,

my phone—ones I didn’t back up. Now that it’s broken, I’ll need your help

least I

Freya took a cup from the kitchen, filled it halfway with hot water, and added a generous

she surveyed the full

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room, the master bedroom, even the guest room—each looked like a war zone. Only the kitchen and the study, which was locked, had

got Alan to drink the honey water. Kristian

a strange, nostalgic feeling in Freya, like she’d been transported back to the early days of their marriage. Back then, things

set the cup aside and let Alan sleep

any longer. Her cousin had made the

hand was warm, his touch light—but it sent

about to pull away when Kristian spoke. “Hold off on that for a

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