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Chapter 225

Author: Your Candy
The lead specialist paused, unwilling yet compelled to voice the cruel truth. "This will buy her two days at most. After that… please prepare the family and accept my condolences."

A sharp buzzing filled Isolde's ears. The lead specialist's words dissolved into static. She could not hear anything else. That prediction had come true.

Bruce's face drained of color. A suffocating pressure radiated from him. He snapped, "I didn't call you here to tell me she has two days. I want her alive. Find a
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