"What does it matter to you whether I care about Lucas or not? You're nothing but a despicable coward, hiding in the shadows. You don't even dare to show your face or use your own voice. What exactly do you want?" Aveline spat out, unable to see anything, completely

restrained and unable to fight back physically.

She could only try to attack him with her words.

Even now, she had no idea who he was or what his intentions were.

It was maddeningly passive.

After her outburst, she felt the grip on her wrists tighten as if he wanted to crush her bones.

Breathing heavily, she let out a cold laugh and continued, "Why did you bring me here? To control Lucas? To threaten him? You've already resorted to kidnapping and imprisonment; what's left to hide?"

She kept provoking him, hoping to gather some useful information.

"I won't use you to control him," the electronic voice replied from above her, still emotionless.

Aveline froze. He wouldn't use her to control Lucas? Then what did he want?

you one thing-do you still

don't!" Aveline replied

wrists loosened slightly, but

will really harm Annie. You say you don't care about her life or death, but you dragged her into this. She's innocent. Can you bear to see her tortured?" With that, the sound

sat up, her face pale and

because of her. But

in with a

time, Aveline didn't refuse; she began to

knew she needed to keep up her strength-for the moment she could seize an opportunity to escape.

she really manage

and took qutet her phone to snap

pasta, Wanda cleaned up

situation was unclear, and the first thing she needed to do was to figure out what was going

might make then other side lower their guard; then, she could extract useful

...

had darkened, and still, there was no

the room, the atmosphere

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