When There Is Nothing Left But Love

At that thought, anger curled in my chest.

“At the very least, Nora truly likes you. How can you possibly use her to threaten me? Armond, you’re shameless beyond imagination,” I snarled as I tried to look for my phone in the pocket.

He sneered, “Truly likes me? What’s the use of that? If she isn’t the one I want, what’s the point of her true feelings? She’s still useless. Am I right?”

I was sure that the man was insane. To him, everything he did not like, did not want, and did not care about, was nothing but a burden. He would never cherish those things.

Has Holden realized that something is off? At that thought, I was about to call my father with the phone in my pocket.

However, before I could, a hand stopped me. A wide, emotionless smile was on Armond’s face as he leaned close to me. “I wouldn’t do that if I were you. Isn’t the sandalwood box useless to you? Why are you stubbornly holding on to it instead of giving it to me?”

Retracting my hand as I clenched my jaw, I then moved away from him and sneered, “Will you let them go if I give you the sandalwood box?”

“Of course. You know my aim is a simple one. Furthermore, I don’t really

I knitted my brows. “All you need is Nora if you want to threaten me. Why did you invite Sasha’s parents here? They’re old people

here. Shane owes me too much, so

 He’s destroying someone’s family, but he won’t even stop at that.

instead, “Give me the box. You know I really need the things in it. If you give it to me,

first. The box isn’t with me right now. Also, you know that even if I want to take Nora away,

eyes. “So what are you trying

but you have to let them go first. You know well that Sasha’s parents are useless to you. That b*stard Shane has no morals to speak of, so he won’t care about his

to give me the box. It’s fine even if you don’t have it with you now. I’ll

at him, I confessed, “It’s not that I don’t want to give you the box, but that I don’t know where it is. When I gave you

narrowed his eyes again, the upset evident on his face this time. “You mean, you don’t know where the box

I nodded. “Yes.”