Undoubtedly, the message was from Kane.

Gregory snatched the phone from my hands and dialed back immediately.

-No answer.

I took my phone back and stepped out to the balcony to call Pearl.

Hearing my voice, Pearl seemed rather upset, even surprised, “Jane, you’re still alive…”

Her voice trailed off, “What do you want calling me?”

Pretending ignorance.

I didn’t have the patience for beating around the bush, so I got straight to the point: “Pearl, I know you want to fight for Dorothy’s share of the Myers family estate. Fine, I agree. Everything that Ramona left me in her will, I’m willing to give to Dorothy. Is that satisfactory?”

“Hmm?”

Upon hearing this, Pearl sounded pleased, leisurely saying, “Are you negotiating with me, or… begging me?”

I glanced through the sliding glass door at my grandmother, sleeping peacefully, and suppressed my anger, “Take it as you will. Right now, I just need the antidote. If something really happens to Ramona, it won’t be good for you either, right?”

They were always afraid that if Ramona regained her sanity, she would bring me back into the Myers fold. But actually harming Ramona and risking her life was a step they dared not take.

of the possibility that the Myers estate would end up in my hands

to blackmail me, but if Ramona were to suffer because we couldn’t administer the antidote in time, they should

just that I

it’s about who’s more

to the vast majority, it’s still an

okay with it doesn’t matter, does it? Cut the crap. If you’re worried I’ll change my mind, I can sign a contract, in black and white. The condition is the antidote in exchange.” Truth be told,

you sure?” She

the antidote and the contract to the hospital by ten, and I’ll be

saying,

room, Gregory

“She agreed?” he asked.

did.” I

their elaborate schemes, this was exactly what they

the phone, Herbert and

pulled a wet wipe from her bag to clean my arm, which had somehow gotten dirty in the abandoned factory,

“Let me

okay?”

“No need.”

felt relieved and smiled at Bella, “She and Victor must be the

couldn’t completely detach myself from this

drag her back into this nauseating relationship with Pearl and

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