Chapter 966

Lionel glared at Nathaniel.

“Finally awake, huh? You were so weak, yet you still managed to bite me until I bled. You did that on purpose, didn’t you?”

Nathaniel smirked, his lips pale.

“If I didn’t, how could I show my desperation and despair? Romello is keen. If my acts were too fake, he’d see right through it.”

Lionel snorted in annoyance.

“I should’ve slapped you harder then.”

Seeing him still dwelling on that, Nathaniel chuckled softly, slowly propping up his weak body to sit up.

Across from him in the armored vehicle, Elliot was engrossed in reading some

documents.

Nathaniel asked, “How did you know something happened on my end? You came pretty quickly.”

“Gabrielle sent a message to Sheena for help, hoping Sheena would return the stolen item in exchange for your release.”

Nathaniel felt a rare warmth in his heart.

so naive. She doesn’t understand

Sheena’s efforts, but it would also give Romello a

the only way to stay

mind, he glanced back at Elliot and continued, “What about the drug? How’s the

with the database. We should have results by noon,” Elliot said nonchalantly, his tone calm yet tinged with a hint of jesting. “If they find anything, we wouldn’t have arrested you at the Nicholls residence

Nathaniel chuckled. “True.”

fell into a brief silence for a few minutes, with no one

himself, he eyed Nathaniel’s bloodstained shirt and

his tongue.

have quite a few external injuries. How many hits

his heavily blood–stained

but I

Two?

paddle soaked in water was already

would need to strike it hundreds of times.

rather

disappearance of the potion from the top floor, and Nathaniel was still his

subjected him to such brutal

as ever, not a word spilled even after going through all the torture devices. It took me a day and a night

referring to Nathaniel’s previous arrest for stealing

chapter in their history.

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