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Chapter 203 Nerves of Steel

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Under the harsh interrogation lights, Queenie’s smile took on an edge–still beautiful, but laced with something cold and cutting.

Her eyes gleamed with a sharp chill.

Jean felt an inexplicable coldness settle over her like a thin layer of frost. Instinctively, she straightened her back and sat upright, every nerve slowly tensing.

“Let’s begin, then.”

Queenie’s lips moved slowly, her voice airy and casual, but each word struck like a pebble skipping across glass.

“What’s your name? What time did you go to the amusement park today? Were you alone? What were you doing there–or more specifically, what rides did you go on?”

Her questions came like bullets–sharp, unrelenting, and without pause.

The smile on Queenie’s face gradually faded, her expression hardening into something stern and severe. She now resembled the overcast sky outside, dark clouds piling in with oppressive force.

Jean remained composed.

She parted her lips and replied in a calm, level tone, “My name is Jean. I went to the amusement park alone.”

the morning, I think. I

to clear my head. Picked the more thrilling

smooth as still water, free

grapes–searching for any flicker of emotion, a crack in the

But there was nothing.

quiet, effortless ease. She looked like she was

brows drew together into a

Tch.

a word of

been watching you for a long time. You think I don’t know what

back slightly, eyes fixed on Jean’s face, confident she was about to see fear–a panicked

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Queenie was dead wrong.

Jean didn’t even blink.

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looked back at her, cool and detached, her expression far too steady for someone her

rarely encountered anyone with nerves