"Could it be..."

"Sophia!" the two of them exclaimed simultaneously.

After uttering that name, they shared a knowing smile.

"It's really her!" Daniel took out a cigarette. With a quick nod from Fat Lawler, one of his subordinates handed him a

lighter.

The smell of tobacco filled the room as Daniel contemplated and then flicked off the ash.

"I guess... by now, both of us are blamed for kidnapping the Bayer heiress, right?"

"What else!" Fat Lawler snorted. "She acted all friendly with me on the surface, but then she pulled off this stunt,

spreading rumors everywhere that I abducted Arya!"

"We're pretty tight, so naturally, others would suspect me," Daniel said with a grin. "This way, more people are

implicated. My brother-in-law is Nicholas, so it affects the relationship between the Bayer and Thompson families."

Fat Lawler scoffed. "She really thinks she can manipulate us like this?"

"What do you think?"

Fat Lawler said that, his tone remained steady, and

his fists and the veins popping out

silence, "Fat Lawler, I've manipulated the price of

those two mines less valuable than they

it to help you

your release, my efforts

Fat Lawler gestured.

blinked, gradually sitting up in bed inside the

said softly, "I'd like to have a

a

pushed open

locked on the direction of the door. Her body

Daniel, she appeared somewhat surprised

a long pause, she

call him

him "Uncle". But now... it seemed he

her lip awkwardly. Finally, she settled on

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