Blair held Mable tightly in his arms. His gentle arms stroked against her back rhythmically to offer comfort. After Mable managed to calm down, Blair spoke again, “We will handle Jeremiah the way I mentioned just now, so you don’t have to worry about it anymore, alright?” Mable stared blankly at Blair and asked uncertainly, “Are you sure you’re just going to spare him?” Blair chuckled. “Of course I wouldn’t let him off so easily, I would have gotten all these wounds for nothing.” He was going to make Jeremiah suffer and drill the lesson into him. He was going to make sure the Mullers could never hurt Mable in the future. “What’s your plan?” Mable asked. Blair gently held her hands and flashed a faint smile. “If my instincts are correct, Connor should contact you soon and ask to meet up.” Mable frowned, she was not very willing to meet Connor. “If you don't want to go, you don't have to. I'll meet him instead.” “What? That won’t do.” Mable advised hurriedly, “
Adam kept his head low and stayed silent. He knew this was not the time to anger Rory. The only thing he could do to calm him down was to play along with his whims. “This is how we’re doing this. You can go now!” Rory commanded. Adam obliged and walked out of the study. With that, a heavy silence descended upon the study again. Rory approached the bed and looked into his reflection in the mirror positioned by the bed, then he frowned. “What, even you don’t agree with the strategy?” He snarled contemptuously at his reflection. Then, something about his expression changed. The change was very subtle and hard to describe but he proceeded to answer to himself in an angered voice, “You promised me that you wouldn’t hurt Mabes.” Then, he scoffed dismissively. “I never said I was going to hurt her, what I’m doing is protecting her in my way. Blair was the one who hurt her the most and now that he is dead, nobody else will hurt her anymore. It’s only a matter of time befor
Rory did not go downstairs for dinner. Instead, it was Adam who brought his food upstairs for him. Paul spied on Rory with the surveillance camera inside the room and noticed Rory barely had a bite of the food. He only drank half of the glass of red wine before collapsing on the couch. “Did you spike the wine as well?” Paul asked Adam. “Yeah.” Knowing that Rory had a bad appetite lately and would often skip dinner, he decided to take the safer route and spike both the food and the wine as well. With that, the pair entered Rory's room and helped him onto the bed. “When will he wake up?” Adam asked. “Don't worry, this medicine is not going to affect his health, he’s just asleep now.” Paul remarked as he produced several capsules from a box, “We need to supervise him throughout the night. This here is a mood stabilizer and we need to give it to him as soon as he wakes up. Then we have this antipsychotic here as well, we have to make sure he continues taking them fr
When Paul got angry, he kicked over the chair next to the bed and rushed forward to beat him. "You bastard, let me show you what I'm made of! Adam, don't stop me enough with this nonsense; I'll just kill him and be done with it!" "Paul, calm down." Adam tried to intervene. "I can't calm down! Damn it, Adam, let go, I'm going to beat the hell out of this jerk!" "Paul!" Adam forcefully pushed Paul away. "Can't you see? He's deliberately trying to provoke you." After being by Rory's side for so many years, Adam knew him too well. If Paul really went ahead and beat him up now, Rory would find a way to free himself from the handcuffs.After hearing Adam's words, Paul finally calmed down a bit. "You need to stay calm and not fall for Rory's tricks. On the other note, when you're conducting therapy on him, don't get too close to him, you hear?" Adam reminded.Even though Rory's limbs were bound, they could not underestimate him.Paul looked at Rory on the bed and snorted. "Rory,
Richworth.Mable frowned as she looked at Adam's message on her phone. She was surprised that Paul would help Rory, considering his hatred toward him because of Coral's situation."What are you thinking about?" Blair's voice came from behind.Mable put away her phone and turned to see Blair sitting in his wheelchair."Are you done with your work?" she asked as she approached."Yeah." Looking at Mable, Blair said, "Solomon and Arthur have everything arranged on their end. It depends on when Rory decides to take action."Mable nodded, remembering the message Adam had sent her earlier. She gave a puzzled look."What's wrong?" Blair asked, noticing her preoccupied expression.Mable said, "Rory probably won't make a move anytime soon.""Hmm?" Blair looked at her.Mable explained, "Adam just messaged me, saying that Paul is with them now, treating Rory's dissociative identity disorder, trying to awaken his main personality. So I guess Rory won't be making any moves soon."He
After their meal together, Blair dealt with some matters in the study. At 10 AM, Amos arrived, and they left together.Once in the car, Amos handed Blair a file folder. "Master Blair, here are the documents you asked me to prepare."Blair took a glance at it without saying a word.Amos continued, "Master Blair, your speculation was right. Kyle took Zoe for her prenatal check-up early this morning, and Mr. and Mrs. Goodman aren't home either. Connor must have chosen this time to act."Zoe's pregnancy was progressing, requiring weekly check-ups now. Connor must have known this and timed his move well, especially since Kyle's parents were not home today, making it a good opportunity.A dark gleam flickered in Blair's somber eyes, but he remained silent.Connor arranged to meet Mable in a private meeting room. He arrived half an hour early, waiting in the private room while checking his phone for messages from her.Then came a knock at the door."It must be Mable." Connor assumed
Blair remained cold and indifferent, his tone devoid of warmth. "This isn't important."Connor stared at the document in his hand and it stated “severed relationship agreement”. His hand was trembling.Blair continued, "If you want me to release Jeremiah, sign this document. From now on, Mable and the Mullers cut ties. You and Jeremiah are forbidden from stepping foot in Croquen for the rest of your lives."Connor looked at the document in silence.He remembered Mable's words during their last phone call about severing ties with the Mullers.Just moments ago, he thought Mable might not hate him too much since Blair was still alive. There might still be a chance to mend their relationship.Now…Connor suddenly understood that while Blair was indeed alive, there had been a time when he had wanted Blair dead.Blair had just been lucky to survive, and Connor could not absolve himself of what he had done.Seeing Connor's silence, Blair raised his wrist to check the time, sneering a
Blair's pupils constricted. "What did you just say?"He never expected Connor to claim that Mable was not his biological daughter."My marriage with Jeremiah's mother was a business arrangement. There wasn't any emotional connection between us. After Jeremiah was born, she moved out of the Mullers due to pressure from both families. Our contact became less frequent over time until one day, she contacted me, wanting a divorce. She told me she had found someone she liked and was pregnant. She wanted to go to Monafett with that man."Listening to Connor's words, Blair remembered his investigations regarding the Mullers. Connor was in love with Monet. He even had wedding photos of them in his room."I was initially going to grant her wish, but when we were about to divorce, that man from Monafett abandoned her. I helped her find him and later discovered he was the son of Monafett's wealthiest man, about to get married. He was playing her, but Jeremiah’s mother was deeply attached to hi