Rosalie hugged Steve tight, her entire body shaking.

"Yerick, are you going to kill me?"

"Kill you? Haha..." Yerick laughed. "Rose, if I wanted to kill you, you would have died long ago. Why would I wait till now?" Rosalie tried her best to keep herself calm. She took a deep breath and said, "What do you want?"

"Call Theodore."

"What do you want me to say?"

Narrowing his eyes, Yerick said, "He's rushing over right now. Tell him that you have something to attend to and not to come."

Rosalie hesitated.

"What, are you not willing to do that?" He loaded the gun and warned, "Rose, there is a limit to my patience. I don't want to kill you, but I'm a bad guy, after all. Bad guys are capable of anything."

"I...I'll call him." Rosalie didn't dare to provoke Yerick unnecessarily.

"Wait," Yerick said as he lifted a hand. "Give me your phone."

him,

snapped irritably, "Give it to

She had no choice but to hand

it lit up. He saw the text Rosalie was drafting to Theodore, unfinished and unsent. He deleted all

to Rosalie.

few steps back. Very soon,

"Hey, Rose."

best to keep her voice steady. "Theo,

"Why not? I have

right now. I need to head out to

I'll go find you and I can accompany you for it.

still insisting on

in a low and threatening voice,

said sternly, "Theodore Spencer, I told you not to

matter. I

talk I'm done. Remember, don't come. Even if you do, you won't

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