Chapter 876:

Once that was done, she called Lawrence.

He didn’t pick up. So she tried Jacob. She’d always known Jacob and Lawrence had something going on. When it came to Lawrence, Jacob usually knew everything. But she never dug into the details.

Jacob had just gotten out of the shower, a towel wrapped around his waist, steam still clinging to the air. He picked up Freya’s call while drying his hair.

“Hi, what’s up?” he said casually.

“Do you know what Lawrence has been up to lately?” Freya didn’t bother with small talk, not with him. “Kristian’s mental faculties seemed to have returned to normal. I need to speak to Lawrence about it.”

Jacob glanced toward the door, paused for a second, and asked, “Is it urgent?”

“Yes,” Freya replied, thinking back to what Kristian had said before he walked out. Something about the way he’d acted felt off.

“Hang on.” Jacob’s tone was light and pleasant.

a quiet

the living room, where a figure sat hunched over,

his brain, trying to come up with a way to win Jacob

door creaking open made him

in

this Jacob’s way of

𝖈𝖗𝖊𝖉𝖎𝖙 𝖌𝖔𝖊𝖘 𝖙𝖔: g⧉𝗮⧉𝗅𝗇𝗈ν𝗲⧉𝗅𝘀.⧉ⅽ𝗈⧉𝗆

had dared to flicker died the

passed the phone to him, his voice and

stunned. He didn’t reach for the phone right away. Instead, he looked at Jacob with a faint attempt at charm. “If I take this call, will you

responsibility,” Jacob reminded him coolly, slipping back into his earlier aloofness. “Not

his duties. But if he answered, he’d have to face whatever mess Kristian was

reluctantly took the phone, drew in a calming breath, and forced

“Lawrence?”

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