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 it was already too late to

so dark

the door and pulled the metal bolt open with a clank.

he plastered on a smile, his heart almost leaping

it?” Zephyr

he wanted to say and stared at

of silence felt

deafening growl from where she was in the room. “Robert

and hurried out of the kitchen, shocked by the

to Mr.

sat on the couch with

her head, and turned back to the kitchen, talking to herself, “It hurts

finished the cat food on the porch and snaked in

and his tense face finally cracked a little. He glared at Robert.

a car knew that it must not disturb him from

chuckled apologetically, drenched

he recalled why he was there, so he quickly pulled an old phone out of his pocket. It was the one they

the data in the phone’s recovered.

through the phone. There was indeed chat history between Phil and Zennie.

etched, with her fists clenched

emotional. “Phil must have been brainwashing Zennie with wrong thoughts! That she’s nothing outside of the

expression was grim when he turned to ask Robert, “Has

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 easy to

look at this!” Cordelia suddenly

the latest photos were of

the phone to their living room. “Zephyr,

were the painting on the wall in the living room, and nothing

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