Under the heiress facade

Tyler's car was idling outside Youngworth Miracle Clinic.

He watched Hera enter the clinic, his phone pressed to his ear as Bernard's icy voice sounded from the other line, "Stay away from her!"

"And what if I don't want to? What are you going to do about it?"

Tyler smirked as he said defiantly, "She's not your property. Besides, she never belonged to you in the first place. You just got a head start, that's all." "You'll regret this!" Bernard growled.

"Oh, my, I'm shaking-" Tyler was cut off by a beeping sound when Bernard hung up on him.

He stared at the dimmed phone screen, his smile slipping. He was just as good as Bernard. The latter had no right to act superior.

Snorting, Tyler steered the car away from the clinic and drove back to the Presgrave residence. He was halfway there when he received a call from his assistant.

leave for

mission assigned to the Tenth

Tenth Elder, who ranked last among the Elders, would have no choice but to take up a mission in that godforsaken place. "I heard one of the Elders recommended you for the

behind this. He knew Bernard was one of the Ten

vowed to uncover Bernard's true identity in Astral Nova when he

...

the desk while Bernard sat in the armchair. They were each reading a book on computer programming, but that was

only just gone through the information on Camille's special medication, which was about to hit the market. She logged onto Shadow's account and clicked on

the requirements for joining Astral

in Hera's direction curiously, wondering why she was asking such a random question and whether Tyler had anything to do with

Nova, he replied, "The organization isn't looking

Was Astral Nova so secretive that she couldn't even know the joining