Chapter 573
Amid the loud music, Michael continued to throw his fists out without noticing the pain. His wounds were
so deep that one could see his bones, but he didn’t realize it…
The next day, when the sun was up, the door to the gym finally opened. Michael looked cold and seemed
to have changed into someone else. When he stepped out of the gym, he identally stepped onto
something soft.
Looking down, Sophia had made a makeshift bed by the door and was sleeping on it. Originally, she was
still asleep. However, when Michael stepped onto her hand, the pain woke her up suddenly. She opened
her eyes in confusion and leaped up suddenly, pulling him into her arms.
She hugged him in front of the gym. None of them spoke. All Michael could hear was Sophia’s sobbing in
his ear.
Reaching his wounded hands out, he hugged the woman in front of him.
When he closed his eyes, tears flowed down his cheeks. They were for his father, his mother, and his
sister, as well as Sophia, who had been hurt so many times because of him.
“I’m sorry…”
Phantom Wolf’s target had never been her. She was only hurt because she was his wife!
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“What’s the use of apologizing now? You need to pull yourself together. Do you understand?” choked
Sophia.
“Brace up, Michael Fletcher! You still need to protect me and Nathan! What are we supposed to do if
something happens to you?”
Holding her tightly, Michael choked with sobs…
After what happened thirty years ago, Tanya disappeared. It was like she had vanished from the world
and no one could find her anymore.
In order to find some clues, Michael decided to visit the ce where he had lived. Tanya had been there
before. And back then, Elizabeth was already a superstar. She installed a surveince system in the
house, so he might be able to find something by chance.
Sophia set off along with him. The weather was still freezing outside. She simply grabbed onto the coat
that she brought back from the militarypound and put it on.
Inside the car, Michael remained silent for the entire journey. He seemed to be very anxious. Both his
hands that were rested on his knees were trembling; the wounds on his joints had been treated with
medicine.
Cautiously, Sophia put her hand into his palm. She did it carefully as she was afraid of touching his
wounds. Michael gently held her hand. Looking at the woman who had been with him for such a long
time, he found the toughness in her eyes that was once familiar to him.
The both of them used to think that they had reached the end of their lives. However, they managed to
move on by relying on their survival instincts.
Weren’t they supposed to survive no matter how hard the future was?
Michael gave Sophia a peck on her cheek before he looked out the window. A familiar building came into
sight.
The car came to a stop in front of an old, discolored vi. The vi looked aged after being washed by
years of rain and wind; the nts in the garden seemed to be managed regrly by someone. Although
it looked like someone came over regrly to tidy the ce up, the loneliness and destion from the
absence of upants for thirty years could not be hidden.
This was an elegant and dashing two-story vi. From afar, it looked like a beautifuldy, but it was a pity
that her outfit was worn out and torn.
Taking out the key, Michael opened the lock and pushed open the door. A familiar ce unfolded before
his eyes.
It wasn’t inhabited for more than thirty years, but everything remained as it was thirty years ago. All the
furniture was covered by dust-proof cloth.
As Michael observed the ce that he once lived, he was overwhelmed with emotions.
“Whenever my sister and I were mistreated by the Fletchers, we would always run back here.”
“After Mother passed away, the both of us were sent away as well. The Fletchers had been taking care of
this ce since then. When I turned eighteen, Grandpa gave it back to me and my sister to manage.”
However, after the both of them grew up, they never came back again.
When Abel took Gary, Hale, and Gemma to check out on the surveince footage, Michael suddenly
recalled his childhood.
In the past, he and his sister would alwayse back in secret. They would climb into the house through
the dog hole that was only known by them. While they cuddled one another, they would stare at the
photos of their parents in the living room in a daze while they waited for them toe back, despite
knowing they never would.
When Michael brought Sophia to look at the bed he once slept in as a child, he noticed that Celine’s
room was full of garbage. Her bed was covered in mud. A string of dirty footprints traced the floor from
the room to the kitchen and disappeared.
His expression darkened.
It seemed like a street bum had sneaked in to spend the winter in his sister’s bed.
It looked like they didn’t spend a lot of time there since someone woulde to clean the ce every
month.
Ordering someone to keep a lookout on the outside, Michael called up some people toe repair the
rusty window that could be simply destroyed with just a punch. He then continued to look for clues that
were left behind by Tanya.
Back then, Michael was only three to four years old. It wasn’t bad that he could still remember that Tanya
hade by before. However, he had no memory of the specific date she had been here, and to find it
from the surveince records was aborious process.
Besides, he wasn’t sure if the equipment from thirty years ago could still function.
Entering the room Elizabeth used to sleep in, Michael opened up the safe and found her ount book.
The money that passed her hands every day was quite a significant amount and all of it was recorded in
this ount book.
Flipping open the discolored book, Michael checked the transactions in order. He then flipped it to the
transactions that happened in thest few days of Elizabeth’s life.
In thest few days, she had invited herwyer and photographer into this room. She did a video
recording of her will, and together with a handwritten will, she locked them in the safe. Two keys were
each given to Mark and thewyer she trusted the most.
Michael noticed from the ount book that his mother’s handwriting was messy and she seemed to
have written in haste.
She did not have the habit of keeping a diary, as everything was recorded in her nner and ount
book.
His eyes fixed on thest sentence written on the ount book: ‘I hope, in exchange for my life, my kids
can grow up healthily.”
Seeing the sentence, he couldn’t help clenching his fists. His scabbed wound broke open again, and
blood flowed out unknowingly.
Squirt—
When Michael felt a chill on the back of his hand, he looked down and saw Nichs spraying something
from its mechanical hand carefully.
What a sweet little thing!
Michael was touched even though he knew that it was only led by its program. It detected that he was
bleeding and its system made it respond ordingly.
“When was the spray installed? Has it expired?” he asked.
“Uncle Linus changed it when Mommy went back the other day. It hasn’t expired yet.”
Closing up the ount book, Michael suddenly realized something.
The day when Sophia and Nathan came back from the Fletchers was the day when Nathan sent the
broken Nichs to Linus’ house for reparation. But, Linus was not home that day!
He went out the first night and didn’te back untilte at night the next day!
However, Nathan went there in the morning and he only came back before dinner. He had his lunch over
there and Nichs was repaired. Who was it? Who upgraded Nichs and installed the defensive
system that saved Sophia’s life at that very moment?
Could it be that the robot at Linus’ house had repaired it automatically?
No way. Someone was in his house. It was just that the surveince system couldn’t capture his face.
But that person had gone into Vi No. 2 and did not appear for a few days.
Could it be…