<b>Chapter </b>697
Either it was her imagination or the person following her was hiding exceptionally well,
Time was tight, and Felicia’s phone buzzed again. The notification caled a note of urgency. She nced at the screen but didn’t answer, just as she was about to hail a cab, a ck SUV pulled up in front of her.
It was Maurice’s men
Felicia sighed, slightly exasperated. “Trold you I’d get there on my own. You didn’t have to pick me up.”
One of Maurice’s men replied respectfully, “It’s hard to get a cab around here. <b>Ms. </b>Fuller, please get in. Mr. <b>Glovers</b>‘ condition isn’t great. Everyone’s waiting for
You‘
Hearing this, Felicia couldn’t argue further. She climbed into the car, which drove off steadily. It soon merged into the busy traffic of Seldvale’s bustling streets,
Back at the hospital, a man stood before Stephan and gave his report, “Sir, after Mrs. Russell left, she got into a ck SUV. I looked into it–it belongs to Maurice’s
men<b>. </b>
Of course, it was Maurice again. It always was about Maurice.
And Felicia’s “important matter” was rushing to Maurice’s side.
She had left him again for Maurice.
Stephan let out a low chuckle, but it was devoid of humor. Hisughter carried an undertone of mockery, bitter self–deprecationced with a chilling edge of
menace
The row of bodyguards standing in the corridor all lowered their <b>heads </b>in unison, staying perfectly quiet. They tried their best to reduce their presence. Anyone could tell Stephan was in a foul mood, and he was teetering dangerously close to a breaking point.
No one dared risk stepping into the crossfire, no one except <b>Stanley</b>,
Breaking the oppressive silence, Stanley cautiously stepped forward, holding out thetest information. “Sir, I just received an update from Andy. There’s progress regarding the map. This is the decrypted coordinates. <b>Would </b><b>you </b>like to have a loold?”
The map
that
was once stolen, the secrets recorded <b>on </b>it, and the mythical destination that was steeped in mystery
Previously, Dexter and Myra had stirred up trouble by leaking information about the map. It eventually fell into Pete’s hands. Back then, the Carrell family’s public sharing of the map’s contents attracted a mix of opportunists and schemers who all hoped to find the tabled location
Ultimately, everyone who followed Pete’s lead was trapped and ughtered in the canyon’s fissure.
The incident <b>was </b>a massive scandal, scaring off anyone else who had been tempted to pursue the map. For a long time, the cryptic messages on the map remained unresolved, and <b>no </b>one knew where the legendary location could be found,
But Stephan had never given up.
He had a reason he couldn’t ignore that drove him to continue the search. And now, at this critical moment, there was finally news.
Stephan lifted his gaze to Stanley<b>, </b>his expression unreadable. “What’s the <b>so </b>
source of this information? What <b>does </b>it say?”
Stanley exined, “The informationes <b>from </b>the Special Operations Unit. During their interrogation of the captured robed man- the one who worked with Pete–they got him to spill some details about a location.”
middle of the open seas. From the satellite view, there
He tapped on the tablet he was holding, bringing up the coordinates. The screen disyed a location in the midd was nothing but an <b>expanse </b>of dark blue ocean with no visible sign <b>of </b>an ind.
“The robed man confessed that Pete’s target destination is here. He also mentioned that unlocking the map’s secrets and <b>reaching </b>the location requires fulfilling specific conditions <b>at </b><b>a </b>particr time.”
“What conditions? Stephan asked.
Stanley <b>shook </b><b>his </b>head. “That<b>, </b>he wouldn’t say. All he revealed is that this <b>year’s </b>celestial phenomenon presents the only opportunity in a decade to meet the conditions for finding that ind. It we miss this <b>chance</b>, no one will ever be able to locate it again”