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Chapter 136 He Was a Machine

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Even though the person at the center of this incident was his own biological brother, Carl had always kept his personal and professional life strictly separate.

People called him an emotionless machine; he never gave special treatment to his own family-

Especially since he wasn’t particularly close to them to begin with.

When he saw the news of Dominic’s plane crash, his heart didn’t waver in the slightest; it was as calm and flat as a still lake.

Over the years, it was as if his heart had been forged into hardened steel; the softness and warmth had long since drained out of him. He was more like a cold machine than a human being.

Even with the headlines flooding in about the crash, he calmly scrolled past them, as if he hadn’t seen anything at all.

But what he hadn’t expected, was that Sienna would reach out to him.

His mother was a proud woman, defined by ambition and busyness; the

To Carl, they were like a hazy cloud–nothing clear or distinct remained.

He had pretty much forgotten all of it.

rest of her traits-

was still one thing he remembered. Sienna had loved her husband deeply, the

ranking of priorities, Matheo would have always been in first place.

children came after.

what felt like a hundred years, suddenly called his private

coded program–this sort of anomaly didn’t belong in

he was curious what Sienna wanted to say to

he picked up the phone,

very first thing

the point, bluntly

in Northara right now. I originally came here

a turn. Dominic’s fate is still up in the air, and now I’ve lost Jean. Do you know her? She’s your youngest sister She probably

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and I believe you’re the one who can find them fast. Right now, we’re racing against the clock, We have to move

quiver in Sienna’s

on and on without interrupting. His face remained calm, unreadable–like a sheet of cold white paper, empty and

“Carl, are you listening?”

word,

“I’m listening.”

deep and void of emotion;

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