"That's impossible!" Wynn was agitated. "Seamus, how could you suspect me?! I...

"That day, Morpheus got hurt, and Sephy wasn't with him. He almost lost his life! I was busy taking care of him. How could I have the time and energy to plot against you guys? Besides..."

Wynn was incoherent, both angry and aggrieved. "Besides, I don't understand what you mean by an update! What kind of update am I supposedly communicating to Sephy? What information am I passing on?"

Wynn felt like he was sitting on pins and needles, and his voice trembled as he fought back tears. He had come to the meeting today with great excitement, thinking that someone like him didn't deserve much, but just seeing Seamus was good enough... Yet it was all his wishful thinking.

Seamus doubted and questioned him right from the start, not giving him any chance to breathe.

"I don't understand what you're saying," Wynn said as he calmed down. "But anyway, I haven't done anything you're accusing me of!"

"Okay, don't be angry. I was hasty with my words." Seamus pushed the coffee he had ordered toward Wynn.

He had seen Wynn drink this kind of coffee in Morpheus' home. It was a local blend from

Flinge. Wynn always added a bit of vanilla extract to it when he drank, so Seamus had instructed the bartender to add some vanilla extract to the coffee as well today.

is it

smiled at Wynn, the latter

sincere. "Sephy is a naive girl, and I'm just afraid she'll get

you supposed to

night... We ran

you mean by

smiled but didn't respond. He didn't need Wynn to know about that. His reaction had

was confirmed—Wynn, indeed, didn't have the nerve or capability

back. The problem must have been with that

the ship promptly after receiving

little girl had disappeared long ago, and the rose thrown into the

didn't know anyone else. Moreover, one of them was critically injured, and the other was

boarding the ship wasn't just someone who

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