Sunny closed in on Xante in two steps-causing her to back into the corner of the elevator-and grabbed her chin.

"You know very well why I did that."

Back at the Holdens' mansion, Corinne was about to turn off the lights after putting the three kids to bed when a light knock was heard on the door. Whoever it was did not want to wake up the kids, it seemed. Corinne was rather tired then, but she still got up to open the door and found Francine anxiously standing outside.

"What's the matter? Why aren't you sleeping?" asked Corinne.

Francine frowned. "Are the kids asleep?"

Corinne glanced at the sleeping kids on the bed. "Yeah, they just fell asleep."

asleep. Is it okay if I go in to talk to you

what she wanted to talk about and wanted to refuse. However, Francine looked like she would not be able to sleep if she did not get some answer, so Corinne nodded and opened the door wider

sat on the sofa, and softly spoke, "Corinne, when did you find out Jeremy was being

and replied quietly, "A

frowned. "Then why didn't you tell me? You

forehead. "What's the use of telling you? It's not like we can go save him now. In fact, you should thank

think like that! We can come up with an idea together to save him! There's strength in numbers! And even if Adam is very powerful, we Holdens aren't

frowned seriously and said, "It's enough you know about this. But don't tell your

able to take this. That's why I waited for them to fall asleep before I came over to talk to you." "The question now isn't whether we can save Jeremy from Adam, but how to prevent the consequences

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