"Hey, who are you going to see?" Mike asked. "This is Bridgedale. Are you familiar with the place?""Even the Devil would do anything for money. Everyone knows that. As long as I'm willing to cough up the money, plenty of people would be lining up to risk their lives for me!" Elliot responded.Mike watched Elliot brag, and in the end, Elliot had frightened him so much with his passion that Mike obediently got out of the car. However, Mike did not forget to take a jab at Elliot."Did you cry when Avery ignored you at the airport that day? I bet you did. I should've recorded the whole thing—""F*ck off!" Elliot shot a glare at him and slammed the car door shut.…Avery was lying in bed at the White Mansion when Wesley's medical report arrived. She got out of bed and took the report. With all of his injuries, his report came up to several pages.Avery spent quite a while looking through the report. "He's not dead, Miss Tate. He'll be fine after some rest," said the woman who

Avery froze.The thought that someone was playing a joke on her! Even if she was the most incredible doctor in the world, she could not bring the dead back to life!"Miss Tate, this is my dearest daughter. She's the most beautiful woman in the world," David said as he leaned closer to Avery. His voice tittered across her skin carrying insanity and disdain in its wake. "Can you cure her? If you can, then I'm willing to give you anything you want!"Avery shoved him aside and snapped, "You're insane! How am I supposed to cure her when she is dead?! I can only treat people who are alive. Not once have I said that my skills are good enough that I can raise the dead!" "Someone told me that you're James Hough's last student and that your skills have surpassed his! So, why can't you cure the dead?! How would you know if you don't try?" David grabbed Avery's arm in a tight grip. "Where do you think you are going, Miss Tate? This is your home now." Avery felt like she had fallen into an

"This is Bridgedale. Aryadelle's laws can't touch me," David continued with a chuckle."Even if that's the case, someone's using news of our scandals to blackmail us into saving her! Release her this instant!""I won't," said David with a timber of finality in his voice. "I want her to extend my life. She's a medical genius. I'm sure she can come up with a way to prolong life!""Are you sure?""I am," said David."Then, don't touch her for now… You have to keep her alive," said Senator Kane. "I'll deal with things here. You better make sure she wants to stay with you. That way, we won't wind up laughing stocks!" "Got it!" The smile on David's face died."Make her want to stay?" he thought."How could am I going to make her want to stay?"…It was the afternoon when Mike found Elliot. They were at a special security company that was mysterious in that not many knew about its existence. He did not expect Elliot to have both vast connections and excellent execution skills.

"Avery!" yelled Elliot. Agony distorted his voice into an animalistic howl. His face was contorted with terrifying rage. He needed to save her!She was so close, and so far.He could hear her pants and see the horror in her eyes, but there was nothing he could do!His blood boiled, and he was dominated by a desire to rip the man into pieces and feed the pieces to the dogs!On the other side of the call, Avery froze.She had heard Elliot's voice!A chill ran through her entire body.She did not expect David to call Elliot!"Elliot! Don't look!" Tears welled up in her eyes. "Please! Don't look!"Her pleas tore his heart into a million pieces as he helplessly stared at Avery's face, seeing all the misery and helplessness she felt. His grip around his phone tightened as a savage fury flared in his eyes. "Avery, I'm coming for you! I'm coming to save you right now!" he cried out as tears escaped his eyes.He tasted the bitterness of his tears!He had never felt this kind

"I told her the plane," said Mike. "The power going out is our signal. She will know that we are there to save her. She'll find a place to hide during the frenzy, and we'll find her once we are done with the enemy." "If we don't cut their power and mess up their internal operations, then they will definitely use her as a hostage!"…Avery had gone still the moment the call had ended. David's interest waned when he saw her catatonic state. He was doing this to make Avery his.He knew that she would stay the moment he made her his!The only reason he had called Elliot was because he had found out that Elliot was Avery's man. He knew that Elliot would no longer want her after she had been had by another man. "Why aren't you screaming? You don't really think that he is coming to save you, do you?" chuckled David as he tapped Avery's rigid face. "How many soldiers do you think I have hidden up here? How many do you think I have surrounding this mansion and the mountain it's on

Mike buried his face in his hands and burst into tears."I regret it! Why did I say those cruel words to her?!"Tears sprang into Elliot's eyes as he thought about the incident that had taken place last night. "She was helpless and scared. Even if we couldn't save her right away, I shouldn't have said that! She must have felt so hopeless after hearing what I said…" Mike was racked with guilt, and he could not control his emotions.Elliot's Adam's apple bobbed in his throat and he said hoarsely, "Stop crying! Are you done cracking the system?"Mike wiped his tears away, and he glanced at the progress bar on his computer. "Almost… It'll be done before noon. My head hurts. What will I do if Avery's really dead?"Elliot did not have the courage to think of that possibility."How about you go home and take a shower?" Mike saw Elliot's stubble and knew that Elliot was in more pain than he was right now. It was because Avery was still carrying his child.Elliot stood still. It wa

"You haven't eaten, have you? I'll go make lunch," Mrs. Scarlet said and walked to the kitchen.Elliot glanced around the house. It had an open layout, and the decor was minimalistic.Layla thought he was looking for his room, so she ran to the guest bedroom and gestured for him to follow her. "You can sleep in here!"Elliot followed her when a framed photo on the shelf caught his eye. It was a family portrait. It was a photo of Laura and Avery. Each woman held a baby in their arms. He walked over to the shelf, picked up the photo, and examined it carefully.At the bottom right corner were the words 'We're a year old!'The children in the photo must turned one when the photo was taken. One of the babies was dressed in a smart suit, while the other was wearing a white, puffy dress and a tiara… It was obvious that one was a boy while the other was a girl."Are they Hayden and Layla?" he wondered. "Come on in!" Layla stood at the door of the guest bedroom and called out to

As time ticked by, the sky outside began to turn dark.It suddenly began to rain. It was not a storm, but it was enough to make one feel uneasy. "The medicine has cooled down, Miss Tate."The voice snapped Avery back to reality. She walked over to the wooden tub and dipped her hand into the liquid to test the temperature. "Put the corpse in!" she said."Oh… Wouldn't the body rot if we put it in?" David's assistant asked with suspicion. "Can you really bring the dead back to life, Miss Tate?"Avery shot him a cold look and said, "Are you doubting me?""I'm just curious.""This is a special concoction," Avery said confidently. "The corpse won't rot."Seeing her seriousness, the assistant no longer doubted her.A few bodyguards picked up the woman's corpse and placed her into the wooden tub.Avery saw the different levels of anxiety on the men's faces.No matter how beautiful she was, nobody would be able to appreciate the beauty of a thirteen-year-old corpse.The dead were

"Where's Avery Tate?!" David roared. "You bunch of idiots! Find her and bring her to me!"The bodyguards and assistant immediately began their search for Avery.She had been standing by the tub, and no one had seen her move. "How did she suddenly disappear?" they thought. The beam from the torch ran over the tub, illuminating the corpse that lay within. His phone crashed to the ground. "It's a ghost! A ghost!"Blood oozed out of the eyes and lips of the corpse.She looked like a zombie!The assistant fled in fear.The bodyguards immediately flashed their torches in the direction of the tub. The screams did not make it past the bars of their teeth, as they fled the room in terror. "Sir! There are a bunch of helicopters outside!"When the assistant fled to the first floor and discovered what was outside, he was even more terrified!David gritted his teeth, raised his gun, and began firing at the corpse's head. The bullets shredded the head. That thing in the tub was n

Elliot's eyes instantly filled with menace!The doctor quickly corrected himself and said, "I'm not saying she's dead. She's possibly in shock after losing too much blood. Ahem, it could be hypovolemic shock!"Elliot blinked a few times as he took a deep breath. He held Avery so tightly that it almost looked as if he wanted to assimilate her into himself. Moments later, the helicopter landed at the hospital, and Avery was rushed into the emergency room.Elliot felt as though someone had hit the pause button on his life as he stood outside the doors that Avery had disappeared behind. It was as if his entire heart and body had been sucked dry!What would he do if anything happened to Avery?His phone rang, interrupting his agonizing thoughts.He pulled out his phone and answered it."How's Avery?! I've dealt with Grimes!" Mike said gleefully. "That old b*st*rd! I knew he would escape through the back door! We caught him the moment he walked out!"Elliot's Adam's apple bobbed