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

this was not the same mysterious texter from

who could

Suddenly, she smirked.

outside world, that

want to see if she had lost

she pulled out her phone and opened Twitter, posting one simple

Matthew had insisted it was the rage and

used it since signing up, just letting it

gradually become a public figure, and her Twitter followers had grown. She had

'brothers' from the same master were the first

clueless, they knew there was only one person in the world

thousand bucks,

faked his death, leaving them grieving

public call for payment, it was clear the old man

out on

echoing Vivienne's message, [Pay

were baffled, wondering who owed her

fans asked who owed her, only Leopold replied seriously, "The debtor is

tagged him in a post, [Master, a grand isn't

tweet sent their followers into

What was going on?

dodging a

job nowadays would

retweet and tag Finnian, urging him

Leopold's tweet, the

Leopold, you've got guts! Aren't you afraid the master

one, Leopold! I support you. Keep

for

there to fear? A man's gotta have

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!

but he's spot-on this time. We stand with Vivienne and must stand up for

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