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The woman in black stared at him with contempt. "I feel like you are here to scam me.""Ms. Blanche, why don't we sit down and talk? It's so cold out here." Sebastian was shivering."I'm not cold. If you want to talk, we will talk here." The woman in black could tell that he was freezing, but she did not care."Fine!" Sebastian turned around to face his bodyguard and shouted, "Go buy me a down jacket right now!"The bodyguard immediately ran off."What's going on with Natalie? If she isn't feeling well, why would she ask to meet with me?" grumbled the woman in black."Ms. Blanche, I'm not trying to fool you. Something has happened to my sister. We are searching for her, but we haven't found her yet. All we found was her phone," Sebastian said. "My sister might be gone, but, all the same, we want to work with you.""Work with me? Do you even know the nature of the deal that your sister and I have?""We don't, but you can tell me. Whatever my sister offered you, we can offer you
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Sebastian shook his head without hesitation."Is my cigarette too cheap for the likes of you?" The woman pulled out a cigarette and reached into her pocket, searching for her lighter.Once she found it, Sebastian leaned in with his own cigarette, and the woman lit it for him right away."I told you we are meeting at a park and you showed up wearing a trench coat. You had it coming." The woman felt no sympathy for him, and lit her own cigarette, before pulling her mask and scarf down to smoke.That was when Sebastian finally had a clear look at her face.He had studied Holly's photo before coming. His father had found a photo of Holly. It had been taken when she had been serving her sentence in Ylore Prison. It had been a clear photo, and Sebastian was certain that the woman before him did not look anything like the woman in the photo. "Are you really Holly Blanche?" he asked in shock as he took out his phone to find the photo of Holly. Once he found it, he stared at the photo an
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The woman pulled her mask and scarf up, before turning to leave.Sebastian clenched his fists as he watched her leave. If even a fugitive had such a low opinion of him, he could only imagine what others thought of him.He sat on the bench in the park alone, smoking.After a while, the bodyguard brought him a down jacket and said, "Sir, where's Holly Blanche?""She left. She said she didn't want to talk to me. She wants to talk to my dad." Sebastian was burning with rage, and he no longer felt the cold. The bodyguard sat down next to Sebastian and consoled him. "Don't get angry, Mr. Jennings. If she's not afraid of Elliot and Avery, it's normal that she isn't afraid of you. There's no need to take her seriously.""If Elliot were to find himself in my position, he would have found a way to deal with her, unlike me. All I can do is run back to my dad.""If Elliot is that great, Angela wouldn't have been able to toy with him as she had. I think you are overestimating him," the body
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"Dad, I will go arrange that meeting with Holly right away." Sebastian took out his phone to call Holly.It was past midnight in Aryadelle, and the friends who had come to visit Elliot had stayed until nine, so Avery was exhausted.After a shower, she unlocked her phone and saw a message from the leader of the Marshall's Award committee.The leader had informed her that after a few days of consideration and discussion, they had decided that they would withdraw Angela's name, but they could not tell the public that Angela had faked the technology. Most people would think that Angela had done something wrong for the committee to announce that she was no longer the winner, and so long as the public did not question the credibility of the Marshall's Award, everything would be fine, and they could just have Angela take the blame. Avery gasped at the message in shock. To make sure that she had read it correctly, she went back into the bathroom to wash her face, and when she realized she
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"No." Dean did not dare to lie. If he claimed to have found Ivy, he knew that Avery would rush over to Bridgedale and pound on his door till he handed Ivy over. "But I have leads as to where she is," Dean said. "Avery, Angela is dead now, so why can't you just let them think that there is a piece of technology which can revive the dead? Do you really have to stop me from profiting from it? If someone finds your daughter and refuses to hand her back to you, how would you feel?""Dean Jennings, how can you even compare those two things?" she said sharply."How are these two matters that different? You must really care for your daughter, am I right? Money, to me, is worth more than the lives of my children!" Dean snarled. "Avery, I don't want to waste any more time on you or Elliot, so I won't do anything to your daughter so long as you stay out of my way!""Dean, have you, or have you not found my daughter?!" Avery could not tell whether Dean was lying to her or not. "No, but I am
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She could not help but think of Sebastian.If Dean had obtained information on Ivy's whereabouts, Sebastian would know as well.She remembered how she had refused Sebastian's invitation for a meal, and how upset he had been. Avery knew that he was upset, but she did not bother to explain herself.She wanted to contact Sebastian because she was desperate to know more about Ivy, but she was not sure if Sebastian would talk to her.Dean would never provide her with any information, so she had to try her luck with Sebastian. So, she sent him a message.[I will buy you dinner the next time you come to Aryadelle.]It was daytime in Bridgedale, and Sebastian sent her a reply shortly after receiving her message. [I was right beside my dad when you called him.]No explanations were needed to understand the contempt he felt for her. He understood why she had contacted him. As she had anticipated, another message from Sebastian followed. [You are so calculative, Avery. You are only willi
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Holly answered his call and promised to meet with Dean the next day. They would get a lead on Ivy's whereabouts in a day's time. Avery immediately texted Hayden. [Holly Blanche is in Bridgedale! Dean is meeting her tomorrow. If you follow him, you will find Holly!]Hayden replied right away. [I know what to do, Mom. Go to sleep. It's late.][Send others to track Dean down. Don't go on your own.][I know.]She glanced at the time and realized that it was almost one in the morning, but she did not feel like sleeping at all.Elliot turned around and she held her breath. She was concerned that she might wake him.Suddenly, he spoke, "Avery, are you still awake?""I didn't even move!" she muttered. "How do you know?"He reached out to her and wrapped his arm around her waist, pulling her to him. "You are stiff. That wouldn't happen if you are asleep.""Oh... When did you wake up?" She turned around to face him. "Did you wake up when I got out of bed?""Yeah. When you got out of
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"I am in awe every time we talk about this." He set his phone down and looked at her. "Did you request for Billy to look the way it does?"Avery shook her head. "No. Hayden preferred to keep a low profile, so he created the robot, Billy. More precisely, Billy was created by Hayden's teacher, and he probably designed the robot to look like my father."Elliot felt a lump form in his throat.Hayden had never met Jack, but he had fulfilled his grandfather's dying wish regardless. Hayden was definitely a kind-hearted person to have done something like that, and Elliot believed that Jack would be pleased with what Hayden had done for him. "What are you thinking about, Elliot?" Seeing how silent he was, Avery leaned toward him and looked at him. Her gaze was gentle. "Are you jealous? He has only seen his grandfather in pictures, so I think Hayden did what he did simply because he was interested in the technology himself, not because he wanted to fulfill my father's dying wish.""I'm not
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