The more Cordelia thought about it, the more she found it wrong. Her heart thumped hard. “Zephyr, does he know what’s inside this cabinet?”

“I don’t think he does,” answered Zephyr. “But he wants to. That’s why he took the photos!”

Cordelia was frightened. “He’s too scary… Why would he be curious about this cabinet?”

“Maybe it’s because there’s a lock on it.”

Cordelia nodded. The lock on the cabinet basically told others that there were incredibly important things in there.

“Sir, Ms. Cordelia, don’t worry,” Robert said softly. “Phil’s sly, but we can catch him. He won’t have it easy by then!”

Zephyr patted Cordelia’s shoulder and gave her a resolute and warm smile. His expression changed swiftly when he looked at Robert with disdain. “Nothing else? Leave if there’s nothing!”

Robert was rendered speechless.

Cordelia saw that Robert seemed hesitant to speak, like what he wanted to say could not be brought up in front of her. She went to the kitchen and told Zephyr, “Keep Robert for dinner. I’ll make you all sticky ribs!”

“You want to stay for a meal?” Zephyr’s tone went up at the end of his sentence.

“No, no, no!” Robert refused frantically. It was until Cordelia entered the kitchen and closed the door that he lowered his voice to tell Zephyr, “Mr. Zephyr, there’s one more thing…”

“What again?”

“Rowan Irwin’s in Centrolis!”

Zephyr scowled. He had heard about Rowan making an appearance but not getting into the seats in the auction that other day.

Cordelia blushed red and struggled away from Zephyr’s hold to run into the room while he was distracted.

a cold breath, but

so dark that it

bolt open with a clank. His eyes felt like ice as they

twitched as he plastered on a smile,

is it?” Zephyr

completely forgotten what he wanted to say

seconds of silence felt as

deafening growl from where she was in the room.

hurried out of the kitchen, shocked by the

happened to Mr.

couch with a secret

time?” Helen sighed, shook her head, and turned back to the kitchen, talking to herself, “It

the cat food on the porch and snaked in between the men. It looked

cracked a little. He glared at

must

chuckled apologetically, drenched in a

jolt in his mind, and he recalled why he was there, so he quickly pulled an old phone out of his

data in the phone’s recovered. Take

was indeed chat history between Phil and Zennie. He scowled and walked back to the

was deeply etched, with her fists clenched as she shook a little after looking at

“Phil must have been brainwashing Zennie with wrong thoughts! That she’s nothing outside of the Hamertons, that he’s the

grim when he turned to

are following up,” said Robert. “But Phil’s too cunning. His routes go back and forth, so it shows up as a tangled mess on the GPS. It’s not

at this!” Cordelia suddenly

checked the phone gallery, and the latest photos were

living room. “Zephyr, it’s

were the painting on

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