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."

looked warily at him, not

"Give

warning to Rosalie. She had no choice but

the text Rosalie was drafting to Theodore, unfinished and unsent. He deleted all the text and retrieved Theodore's

phone back to Rosalie. "Don't put it on

a few steps back. Very soon, Theodore

"Hey, Rose."

to keep

Theodore asked, confused. "Why not? I have something to tell you, and it's very

very important, but it's not a good time right now. I need to head out to do

go find you and I

still insisting on

and threatening voice, "If he comes, I'll

I told you not to

matter. I don't want

come. Even if you do, you won't be able to find me. I've

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