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“Where is Devon, Daemon? Where is your wife?! Take her here this instant. I will talk to her!”

Daemon can already hear Brian’s loud voice from the top of the stairs so he hurried down. Devon and Lucy are still in the room sleeping soundly together. The child asked to go home but Devon found a way to trick her into believing that her parents have something important to do.

He blocked him by carefully closing the door behind him to face him and Sylvia who’s crying her eyes out. “What are you doing here, Brian?”

His brother-in-law snatched him by the collar and spoke in a hoarse voice from too much anger. “I’m here to kill you and Devon if you don’t show her face and return my daughter to me. I know you are hiding her. I want you to drag her here so I could talk to her.”

He pushed him away but he did not budge and continued blocking the door.

“I don’t know where Devon is. She has not come home since yesterday.”

In the end, he lied to protect his wife. He’ll buy her enough time until sh