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.]

gaze dropped; she clenched the

knew the person who sent this was not the same mysterious

could

Suddenly, she smirked.

fill of the outside world, that old coot

Did he want to see if she had lost

her phone and opened Twitter, posting one

Twitter, but Matthew had insisted it was the rage and would

used it since signing up, just letting it

had gradually become a public figure, and her Twitter followers had

from the same master were the first to get the

one person in the world who could owe Vivienne

bucks, unpaid for

had faked his

public call for payment, it was clear

miss out on helping Vivienne collect

echoing Vivienne's message, [Pay

those of the nine, were

fans asked who owed her, only Leopold replied seriously,

new account for Finnian and tagged him in a post, [Master, a grand isn't a fortune. Time

tweet sent their followers into a

What was going on?

dodging

nowadays

and Vivienne's followers began to retweet and

tweet, the

group, [Holy smokes! Leopold, you've got guts! Aren't you afraid the master

I support you.

[I'll mourn for

[What's there to fear? A man's gotta

owes. Aren't we supposed to help her get it back? If I were you, I'd be tweeting right now,

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

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