The Woman From Hell

"So you're saying you guys didn't know I was in the Yards' mansion until you received a mysterious text message?"

I finally understood the ins and outs of their investigation after we talked the entire way home.

However, the text message they spoke of was suspicious.

Shannon nodded. "You're right. The Yards really have a way of keeping secrets. We couldn't find traces of you no matter how we searched. If it wasn't for that text message, we wouldn't have gone to the Yards' mansion today with people.

"But the Yards seemed to have found out about it sooner than we did as they moved you and kept us from finding you. Shannon only got your message after the inspectors left. We had them leave first so as not to alert them before turning back to the mansion to look for you."

It turned out that things were like this.

"How did the message look like?"

Marius opened the message on his phone and passed it over to me.

A simple message was written on it: [Wanda is at the Yards' mansion].

It was an encrypted number.

I have no idea if he's had any success with it, though." Marius took back his phone and looked

him for what happened back then yet. Meeting his gaze, I said in a soft voice, "Marius, I'm sorry... about last

apology," he replied with a smile and

"Although we're leaving the Yards' mansion now, Silas did leave a warning before we left. We'll

troubling for everyone. I shook my head. "Who knows what they'll do?

Don't tell me they'll

necessarily

enemies

the family, and they

not be surprised if he

him first? We can contact everyone to go up against the

think it's good for us to form an Anti-Yard

too shabby a name." Marius smiled

has a lot of enemies. We can't simply recruit anyone hastily. We need to deal with the main ones and then

to deal with for the Yards are probably the Zekes and the Wagners. They were bullied by the Yards quite a bit back then, and now their businesses have been growing bigger and bigger. But it's been many years since they had cut contact with the Yards. I heard that they still do engage

and Marius will go to the Wagners while Shannon and I