But it didn't take long before he answered his own question, "Makes sense, Everett's gone and you're struggling to deal with it."

"Why did you call me?" Dorothy sniffled deliberately, "It's because you got Quincy killed, that led to Everett's..."

"His death was his own doing! Getting involved with a woman like Quincy wasn't my doing."

"Lane, aren't you scared I'll call the cops on you? You're a fugitive now!"

Lane chuckled, his voice as carefree as ever.

"I'm not scared! Everyone else might go to the police, but not you, you can't."

Pretending to be clueless, Dorothy asked, "Why not?"

"Because-though Quincy is gone, that doesn't mean there's no antidote left in the world!"

"But if I die or get caught, then you're definitely going down with me."

not bring it out!" Dorothy, hearing this, felt a

There's an antidote!

like their

then what? Save Everett? Dorothy, you're thinking too big. I wish Everett would drop dead this instant; why would I save him?" Lane's voice darkened at the mention of Everett, "All of this, having to sneak around, isn't it all because of him, Everett?!" "He just wanted me to work at the Lopez Corporation, it wasn't aimed at

wasn't East Star Enterprises taken over, and I was driven out of Eldorria City like a stray dog?" Lane shouted, "Even now, after he's dead, you're still

realized she shouldn't have gone down

was habitually defending Everett, trying to

few seconds to calm down, Dorothy clenched her fist before asking, "You say you have the

want,

"I can't."

chuckled, "I want

can save

gone, the understand that,

the recorder, and pursed her lips You're using the antidote to blackmail me? Lane, you claim

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