Chapter 649
After a few rings, the call connected.
“Thaddeus, I’m honestly surprised and delighted you’d call me,” Chad’s voice was as warm and kind as ever, though tinged with a hint of frailty.
“Chad, how have you been holding up?”
Thaddeus, by nature, wanted to cut straight to the chase, but desperate times called for some pleasantries first.
“Oh, same old. Popping pills like candy just to keep ticking, so much so I’m practically balding.”
Chad cracked a joke, “Tell me, Thaddeus, next time we meet, do you reckon I’ll look like I’m sporting a monk’s tonsure?” “Chad, I’m actually in this country,” Thaddeus replied seriously, not in the mood for banter.
“Oh? Really? When did you get in?”
“Night before last.”
Thaddeus took a deep breath and spoke in a low tone, “Chad, I’ve got something serious to discuss. Can we meet?”
That evening, Thaddeus and Gordon drove to the address Chad had provided. All the way there, Thaddeus‘ jaw was set in a firm line.
Though they were brothers by blood and had got on well in their youth, and despite not sharing the same mother, his older brother had taken care of him a lot.
exchanged, Chad didn’t feel
we’re here!”
snapped out of his reverie and slowly lifted his
seclusion striking an impressive contrast to the outside
rivals the grandeur of Mrs.
Mr. Chad Abernathy’s been living it up abroad. This place must’ve cost hundreds of millions,
“Nonsense.”
lips thinned, his competitive streak flaring up, “It’s nothing compared to
and
Abernathy was totally smitten with Mrs. Abernathy, treasuring even a strand of her
first, respectfully opening the car door for Thaddeus. As he stepped out, buttoning up his suit jacket,
calming effect,
greeting you at a greater distance,” a cool and soothing
figure slender and elegant, approaching them with grace.
curved up in a smile as she extended her hand politely to Thaddeus, “I’m pleased to meet
familiar, yet after sifting through his memory, he couldn’t
meet
quickly touched her hand, as if any longer and he might
been waiting for you. Please,
“Sure.”
tone. “I’m sorry, but Mr. Chad Abernathy’s estate is off–limits to anyone but
filled with
the car, Gordon, Thaddeus said quietly
in her eyes iced over to a chilling
Gordon stared at her retreating figure, feeling an inexplicable
gaze remained on Alexia, his suspicions growing.
your perfume smells quite nice. What brand is it?” Thaddeus, ever the
back with a light smile, her eyes like tempting hooks, “Would a busy man like Mr. Abernathy be interested in a
used to be, but now that I have a significant
you tell me the brand? I’d like to get it for her as
disappoint you, Mr. Abernathy. It’s not a perfume, but
flickered, and
suddenly remembered where he had smelled that
faintly detected this orchid scent clinging to Avery, the same
but a rare incense she could obtain probably due
did Avery get it? Did they know each
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