Chapter 22

Before Tristan could finish explaining, a bodyguard threw an old man covered in wounds inside.

Tristan recognized him. It was Liam.

Two days ago, Xavier had someone find Yara and Terrence, who had fled overseas.

That was when he had found out that Yvette had been

supposed to marry Liam a 1 not Claude! Thus, he'd had the old man kidnapped.

After experiencing a day of torture, Liam still claimed he didn't know where Yvette had gone. Xavier stared at Liam with a depthless gaze. "Do you still want to marry Yvette?"

With injuries all over his body, Liam hurriedly bowed his head. "No, no, I wouldn't dare..."

He was then dragged outside. It was obvious what was going to happen to him.

Xavier's face was expressionless. His gaze fell on Tristan. Did you just defend Yvette?"

Tristan's throat tightened, but he didn't deny it. "I just think there's no need to keep treating her badly."

Xavier's grip on his pen slowly grew tighter, and the veins popped on the back of his hand. "She treated me badly first." With that, he stood. "Tristan, you don't really think she's dead, do you? Have you never heard of the saying 'the wicked

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like her could never

Xavier was lying to himself and the people around

went off. Xavier glanced at the time,

crystal pendant so tightly that his palm was bleeding before he finally

had been tossed by the side of the road, on last breath. "Take him back," he ordered coldly. Dewberry Manor was eerily silent. There was a bright red suitcase in the middle of the living room that

he sat on the couch that Yvette

the same as before, yet

suitcase. Tristan had someone send Yvette's belongings. over, but Xavier had yet

stepped forward and leaned down to open it. The password was simple-his birthday. He knew this because Yvette used

some daily necessities and clothes. The things were so basic that it didn't seem like a woman's

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didn't dare go through Yvette's things and shut

dinner, he went to the bedroom

inside, he spotted Yvette's ashes

after cremation,

die, nor would she have

someone who feared pain as much as

bluffing him so that

latter had remained single and unmarried. He was

well that night. The next day, he woke up very early. By the time he was done freshening up, Mark had sent him

Xavier didn't feel any differences in lifestyle. As time passed, he slowly realized a few

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