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.]

the

sent this was not the same

who could

Suddenly, she smirked.

had his fill of the outside world, that old

want to see if she had

pulled out her phone and opened Twitter,

Matthew had insisted it was the rage and

had not used it since signing up, just letting it

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

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

only one person in the world who could owe

bucks, unpaid

had faked his death,

Vivienne's public call for payment, it was clear the old

miss out on

all nine tweeted, echoing Vivienne's message, [Pay

the nine, were baffled,

Leopold replied

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

sent their followers into a

What was going on?

dodging a

job nowadays would cover

followers began to retweet and tag Finnian, urging

the other

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

one, Leopold! I

mourn for you in

to fear? A man's

back? If I were you, I'd be tweeting right now, hounding the old man to pay! Isn't Vivienne's happiness

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

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