When Love Breaks by Jack

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.

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

suffer because we

that I can’t afford to

end, it’s about who’s

Myers estate might not be what it was a few years ago, but to the vast majority, it’s still an unreachable status. Are you really okay with giving up your inheritance and your

sign a contract, in black and

sure?” She

antidote and the contract to the hospital by ten, and I’ll be waiting. Is that

agreed, confidently saying, “Of

room, Gregory looked at me, already guessing what I

“She agreed?” he asked.

did.” I

agree. After all their elaborate

I had been on the phone, Herbert and Abdul

my arm, which had somehow gotten dirty in the abandoned factory, and

“Let me handle

okay?”

“No need.”

come to an agreement with Pearl, I felt relieved and smiled at Bella, “She and Victor must be the last

this situation,

of it. If it was possible, why drag her back into this nauseating relationship with Pearl and Victor,