Chapter 150

Chapter 150

Eliza turned and looked down at Sophie, who was lying on the ground, her face frozen in shock, eyes wide with disbelief. Slowly, Eliza said. "I believe it was Gilbert Stuart."

The moment Sophie heard the name, she let out a muffled, furious scream. But her mouth had been tightly gagged by Eliza, so the words never made it out.

If Sophie could speak, she would have demanded answers. "How do you know him? How do you even know what he looks like? How?"

Sophie clearly remembered that Gilbert had never shown up in Hasen City. He had never even crossed paths with Eliza. And yet Eliza knew all about him.

The way she described him, it sounded as though she had seen Gilbert with her own eyes. But that was absolutely impossible.

Gilbert was Sophie's trump card, a deadly foreign assassin left to her by her mother.

To keep him hidden, Sophie had completely cut off contact with Gilbert ever since returning to the Duke's estate. They had no letters, no signals. There was nothing.

She had only reached out because she had lost control of the people inside the estate. That letter she wrote to Gilbert was just yesterday.

known him for ages when I only wrote that letter a day ago? Sophie thought, a

Gilbert had turned against Sophie, Eliza would not have ordered him captured. She would

and pulled back before it was too late. As long

thrown into a carriage

move struck a nerve, because starting that very day, a wave of assassins began

their numbers were too few, and they were no match for Nolan and his

wiped out group after group. None of them even managed to get within

must have finally realized

outgunned. And their opponent was not someone

they rushed ahead, straight toward Blacklow Mount, a pass Eliza and Nolan would inevitably have to cross on the

buried deep in the mountain, long rumored to be impenetrable, the Onyxgrave Bastion.

failure.

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