Chapter 256 The Stubborn Girl

Time flew by like a swift shuttle.

A massive fire had altered the lives of all those involved.

Two years later, the world’s top tier commercial speech event in Simeria dazzled everyone…

Lucas hurriedly entered Verde City Prison to see Cedric. Two years had transformed the man into

someone cold and steady.

“What’s the matter?” Cedric asked with an icy tone upon seeing Lucas.

It had been two years.

Since the day Rebecca left, Cedric hadn’t met anyone else apart from those from the company.

In the meantime, Rebecca had tried numerous times to reach out, but Cedric rejected every attempt. He

even turned away calls from Simeria.

Lucas had visited countless times during this period, but his serious expression now was a first.

Cedric thought something might be wrong with the company.

“It’s not about the company,” Lucas sa d as she shook his head.

Cedric frowned, “Then what?”

Lucas looked at him with complex emotions in his eyes. Obviously, the unexpected news had left everyone at a loss for words.

When Rebecca had first learned of it, she didn’t know how to break it to Cedric. It was beyond surprising.

and it was downright… hateful!

In the past two years, Christina had been sentenced to prison for life, and Cedric had paid a heavy price.

Yet, the person who was supposed to be dead…..!

It was a deception.

A blatant deception!

“Just leave it if you’re not going to talk, Cedric said, about to hang up.

“Wait,” Lucas stopped him in time.

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obvious impatience in

Lucas gathered his courage and said, “Ms. Walker is still alive!”

air fell silent

separated by soundproof glass, it felt like they could hear each other’s

storm of

and spoke, his mind was still buzzing, as if

did you

Who wa

was still alive?

must have misheard.

and said slowly, “Ms. Walker, sir, Natalie

his mind seemed to explode!

collapsed and

sa

world was in chaos. It was a tangled

Natalie… Natalie!

to recall in the last two years. Yet, her face

was frozen in the sea of

wildly and beyond his control.

about her being alive echoed in his mind repeatedly.

Cedric finally spoke after

the other side of the glass, to confirm that he

“Yes, sir.”

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Lucas added, clearly reminding Cedric that time

his mind settled on the crucial point:

Natalie, Natalie…!

kept him awake through

was the most painful yet unforgettable memory. It was a name that haunted him

him like a curse.

it was the name he couldn’t let go of–the name that tortured

everything.

became a deep abyss he couldn’t escape. But now, Lucas’s

sun, instantly

demon and

“She’s alive?”

“Yes, sir.”

a mocking and

time in his eyes gradually lightened,

years. It had been

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