When Her "Death" Couldn't Break Him (Cecilia and Nathaniel)

Chapter 1741 Can I Hold Your Hand

"What? How is that possible?" Ralph couldn't believe it.

"How is it not possible? Those people are so unreliable; they actually let Cecilia go!" Cassandra fumed, anxiously stomping her feet. "Thankfully, we didn't reveal ourselves. Otherwise, we'd all be behind bars."

No longer wishing to engage in further conversation with Ralph, she promptly hung up the phone.

Meanwhile, another call came in. It was from Stella.

Cassandra picked up the phone. "What do you want?"

"Ms. Evans, I heard there were some incidents in Tudela last night. Is Cecilia all right?" Stella asked tentatively.

Cassandra was momentarily taken aback but quickly feigned ignorance. "It seems that Cecilia was kidnapped last night, but she's fine now."

"What?" Stella pretended to be shocked, though she knew deep down that Cecilia's abduction was linked to Cassandra. "What happened? How did Cecilia end up kidnapped? Who could have done this?"

Stella's barrage of questions, Cassandra retorted impatiently, "How should I know? If you're

confused, ready to end the

don't be mad. I was just curious. After all, both of us are afraid of her being alive. I feel the

truly afraid, then you should act." Cassandra wanted to continue,

immediately hung

disdain, her face now lit up with

"Scorpius, you're leaving already?"

a slight

particularly like Cassandra, but because she had once been Queenie's adopted daughter, he still

wrong before. I was young and naive. Please, don't take it to heart Cassandra knew the place Scorpius held in Queenie's heart and she hoped to use him to find

Scorpius wouldn't give her an ounce of respect. "Ms. Evans, my loyalty lies with Mdm. Queenie. In the past, my obedience to you was solely out of respect for her. Now that you have no connection with Mdm. Queenie, there's no relationship between us either. To put it bluntly,

to draw a clear line

say something, but Scorpius walked past her, got into the car, and drove away, leaving her standing

ward, after finishing her breakfast, Cecilia lay back down to

next to her, not daring

was berating herself for not assigning someone