Will You Marry Me, Again by Pear Heart

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Susie frowned. “Ms. Maia, Mr. Cedric forbade me from giving you any devices.”

“Well, he didn’t say I couldn’t make a call, right? It’s just one call, please, Susie,” Maia pleaded. Susie glanced around and said, “Ms. Maia, it’s not that I don’t want to help you, but this place is under surveillance. Mr. Cedric can watch your every move.”

Taken aback, Maia looked around her and saw surveillance cameras everywhere.

She chuckled bitterly and murmured, “I guess the place is bugged, too, huh?”

Susie sighed but didn’t deny it. “Eat while the dinner’s still warm, okay?”

Maia was left alone in the dining hall but had lost her appetite. She squeezed the utensils in her hands tightly.

hope that Rita would be found soon. Still, something about all of this made her

more than meets the eye about Rita’s kidnapping. She could only

she finished her meal and headed

come. The wait was unbearable. She wondered if

Larkin Manor had been silent for a few days. Zera had taken a break

the surveillance footage is restored, we’ll

Cedric said

exclaimed when she saw the

he turned on the screen capture feature and

the video call.

Rita, bound to a chair and gagged with duct tape,

voice.

“Mom, are you okay? Don’t

that your

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to see the kidnapper’s face as he wore a black mask, sunglasses, and a hat. “What do you want?” Cedric asked