Theo snorted. "Oh, please. Anyone with a working brain can see through your stupid act already. There's no need to congratulate me."

Frank, however, simply kept smiling. "No, I'm congratulating you for something else entirely."

"Something else?"

Even before Theo could understand what Frank was talking about, his mother's phone started ringing.

While Ilsa was still sneering in contempt as she picked up, her face turned pale in an instant.

Her cheeks were drained of all color as if she had just fallen from heaven to hell, while her phone slipped from her fingers and dropped on the floor with a thud.

And over the phone, a man was roaring furiously, "You bitch! I'll kill you! I'll kill every last one of you!!!"

hear him, even though Ilsa never turned on her phone's

Theo

smiling and shaking his head. "Huh. That's quicker than I thought... I guess he's really furious

confusion when his

showed that it was a call from his father Monrad

Mr. Gene Pearce?! He's threatening to kill us all! It's you and your

his own father was howling at him in rage and despair, Frank

you upset or how you insulted Mr. Pearce-you will call Mr. Pearce right now and beg for

your own family, do you understand?!d was planning on living a couple of

as Monrad kept yelling over the phone

"H-How...?"

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