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Chapter 561.
Josie, you have to help me!”
The moment Nadia Neville saw Josie Quinn, her eyes were rimmed with red. She grabbed Josie’s arm, her voice trembling with agitation.” really never expected this. I never thought…”
“Calm down. Sit and talk,” Josie said, pulling Nadia toward a chair. She called out to the hallway, “Bring us two teas!”
“Coming!” Winnie Lane arrived quickly with the tea, then discreetly closed the door to the meeting room behind her.
She wasn’t going to let anyone disturb their conversation.
“Josie, did you already know?” Nadia asked, clutching her teacup as tears threatened to fall.”Did you know that Felix Fletcher and Malcolm Monroe were planning to carve up my base? I’m not accusing you-I know you’re above that kind of thing. But for over a year, our three bases have lived in a fake peace while there were constant internal power struggles.”
“Felix and I used to be allies. We broke away from the Official Base together to establish our own territories.”
“By all logic, he should ha
“But I never imagined th
“And then there’s Male ship to the Official
“People with real meat on the pla
Josie remaine
She simply
“The one stab his
“He
been standing on the front lines with me!”
rst person to start poaching from The Peaks Base would be Felix.”
en secretly contacting my high-rank Supers, offering them astronomical compensation packages to jump
g power will not exceed three once these bases merge. Because we’re the weakest, we’ve been turned into the course for the three of you to divide among yourselves.”
frustrations.
heart was Malcolm. Even if we never went public, we loved each other once. Yet, he didn’t hesitate for a second to back. Josie, tell me-is there even a single man in this world who can be trusted?”
plantations. My workers are skilled; the grain, vegetables, and fruit we grow are the highest quality in the region! And ything.”
nice just to get his hands on our crops. But now that Quinshaw Base can provide massive amounts of food, he’s dropped
my utility. He wants to swallow me whole and not even leave a single bone fragment behind.” days, dozens of my high-rank Supers have been poached. My best farmers are leaving, too.”
wo days, and we’ve already lost over a hundred thousand people!”
er eyes and looked at Josie.”Chief Quinn, are you planning to carve us up, too?”
adia’s shoulder gently. “Didn’t you already know how sinister human nature is? Didn’t you know how fickle men are? Why haven’t to be more cynical?”
ocalypse, in this world without laws, the one with the biggest fist makes the rules. You used to be a rule-maker yourself. It’s just that on in charge of the rules has changed. Why is that so hard to accept?”
telling you to just give up. I’m saying that crying over a man like that isn’t worth it!”
don’t want to be served as the main course, you only have two choices. One: become the person who makes the rules. Two: stay so thin eless that you aren’t worth putting on the table-but if you do that, every person and monster in the world will trample over you. Which your real choice?”
Sara Lili is a daring romance writer who turns icy landscapes into scenes of fiery passion. She loves crafting hot love stories while embracing the chill of Iceland’s breathtaking cold.

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