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!!!"

him, even though Ilsa never turned on her

around Ilsa either-Gina, Theo and everyone else

his head. "Huh. That's quicker than I thought...

him in confusion when his phone

was a call from

the hell did you say to Mr. Gene Pearce?! He's threatening to kill us all! It's you and your mother's fault, isn't it?! Stop involving me in your problems!"

was stunned that his own father was howling at him in rage and despair, Frank kindly turned

you, Theo!" Monrad was still ranting just then. "I don't care who you upset or how you insulted

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

courtyard was at once silent as Monrad kept yelling over the phone in rage

"H-How...?"

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