He agreed to the arrangement and followed up by sending over a string of codes as well as the map of a military zone.

Anon was duly satisfied when he received them.

Anon: Excellent, Lieutenant Colonel Jadeson. Many thanks.

Stephen: You’re not to threaten his life. See that you do as you’ve promised.

He seemed to still be conflicted as he did not neglect to remind his counterpart toward the end.

The response which came back, though, was ambiguously expressed.

 

Anon: Rest assured, Lieutenant Colonel, that we’ll do as you asked since you do not wish to see him die at this present time. Trust me when I say that I’m much more competent than anyone you’ve approached before.

The middle-aged man seated in front of the computer abruptly hunched over with his face contorted for a moment as though he had been hit in the gut. Then he slammed his hand on the keyboard and turned off the computer.

 

That was his psychological wound that could not be healed.

Back at Oceanic Estate.

Through Janice’s explanation, Sasha slowly came to understand Jonathan’s plans for her. That hit her like another curveball.

some kind of trauma that led him to make such

not feel up to shouldering such a heavy responsibility and decided that she would bring this up with Sebastian when she went to him the next day. Since he would be due to return the

to tuck the children in

she was up early as she needed to

told us to tell you about

dressed by her mother, the groggy Vivian snuggled into her mother’s arms and told her about

A parent-teacher conference?

brightened up spontaneously. “Really? What’s

ever since the children started attending elementary school. She was so busy that she was only able to send the children to

it, Mommy. Just a routine meeting to discuss the student’s

brought this up, Matteo was worried that his mother would find out that it was meant to

mass exodus of students was motivated by the fear of being caught in the middle of a cross-fire between the

issues or the quality of the teaching that led to the mass exodus, hence the school wanted to gather the parents

did not suspect too much while she listened. “I see. Sure. Friday is the day after, and your Daddy

“Really?”

dainty faces dimpled as they clustered around Sasha. Even the usually less expressive Ian hugged his

reached out to pat their

for you. Should

rounded things off with

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