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

knew the person who sent this was not the same mysterious

could

Suddenly, she smirked.

the outside world,

was it? Did he want to see if she had lost her

phone and

signing up for Twitter, but Matthew had insisted it was the rage

not used it since signing up,

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

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

person in the world who

thousand bucks,

faked his death, leaving them

it was clear the old

they miss out

tweeted, echoing

those of the nine, were baffled, wondering

Leopold replied

and tagged him in a

sent their

What was going on?

Vivienne's master dodging

nowadays would

Vivienne's followers began to retweet and tag

Leopold's tweet, the

the group, [Holy smokes! Leopold, you've got

Leopold! I support you. Keep it

mourn for

man's gotta have

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

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

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