Astrid chuckled dryly.

Mature enough?

If leaked, the research material in the lab would send shock waves around the globe.

Yet, in Vivienne's words, it was merely mature enough?

Astrid glanced at her and asked, "So, you agree to stay in the lab?"

Vivienne nodded. "Yeah."

Astrid breathed a sigh of relief and smiled. "Thanks, Vivienne. I really appreciate you agreeing to be part of this experiment. Our progress will surely skyrocket now." Vivienne did not respond. Instead, she turned her gaze to the car window, watching the streetlights fall, and a slow smile spread across her lips.

After dropping Vivienne off at home, Astrid did not go upstairs. Instead, she turned the car around and drove away.

In the back seat lay the experimental data Vivienne had revised that day.

Returning home, Dorian and Cordelia were already asleep, and even though the light was on in Thaddeus' room, he was sound asleep, too. Vivienne switched off Thaddeus' light and entered her own room.

The moment she opened the door, her steps faltered, her eyes sharpening instantly.

A chill ran through her as she looked towards the window - a piece of paper was wedged in the crack.

This was the twenty-third floor; unless it was an inside job, this kind of infiltration was extraordinary!

She was sure that apart from Dorian's family, no one else was here.

Obviously, she was dealing with a pro!

She walked over and pulled out the paper.

The message was a mishmash of newspaper cutouts, and crooked letters forming a single line.

[The TCL Lab.]

dropped; she clenched the

was not the same mysterious texter from

who could

Suddenly, she smirked.

his fill of the outside world,

to see

phone and opened Twitter, posting

Twitter, but Matthew had insisted it was the

used it since signing up, just letting it

public figure, and her Twitter followers

her nine 'brothers' from the same master were the first to

only one person in the world who could

bucks, unpaid for

his death, leaving

Vivienne's public call for payment, it

out on helping

all nine tweeted, echoing Vivienne's message,

well as those of the nine, were baffled, wondering who owed her money to

fans asked who owed her, only Leopold replied seriously,

Finnian and tagged him in a post, [Master, a grand isn't a fortune. Time to settle

sent their

What was going on?

Vivienne's master dodging

nowadays would

began to retweet and tag Finnian, urging

the other disciples

smokes! Leopold, you've got guts! Aren't you afraid the master will come for

[Nice one, Leopold! I support

mourn for

there to fear? A man's gotta have backbone! Just do

Vivienne treat you right for nothing? It's her hard-earned money the old man owes. Aren't we supposed to help her get it back? If I were you, I'd be tweeting right now, hounding the old man to pay! Isn't Vivienne's happiness worth more than your little

to be unreliable, but he's spot-on this time. We stand with Vivienne

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