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Chapter 440
“Conrad, do you think… Do you think she could still be alive?” Fia whispered, clutching Conrad’s hand as if holding
onto a lifeline.
Conrad frowned, bringing up his hand to pet her head gently.
“She’s dead.”
He pressed a finger to smoothen the furrow between her brows and continued, “She’ll never hurt you again.”
Fia shook her head, her body trembling as she felt like her nerves were fried from the terror of her dream.
“It felt so real…!”
Conrad felt his heart ache at her state, and he carefully pulled her into his arms.
“Fia, it’s all over now. It was just a dream.”
A suffocating feeling overwhelmed Fia when she thought about the dream again, and she pushed Conrad
away.
“I can’t breathe. Don’t hold me too tightly.”
Conrad was stunned. He hadn’t been holding her too tightly, but he released his grip on her when he heard
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She fumbled around the bed frantically and said, “Where’s my phone? Where is it? I want to listen to my lecture.”
Listening to her lectures would keep her mind off her dream so she wouldn’t panic so much.
Conrad picked up her phone from the floor and handed it to her. Fia gripped her phone tightly once she felt it, then
tried to straighten out her earbud cords.
Conrad gently helped her, then plugged it into the phone and her ears.
Hearing the voice filter into her ears, Fia visibly untensed and gradually calmed down.
Conrad carried her over to the couch, then pulled back the curtains to let the sunlight shine in.
Not long after, Fia fell asleep again.
He stayed with her for a few minutes before walking out of the break room, leaving the door open in case she woke
up from a nightmare again. He was afraid he wouldn’t get to her in time if the door was closed.
After an hour, Fia woke up from her nap feeling better and refreshed.
She removed her earbuds and listened to the keyboard typing sounds coming from outside, which grounded her.
“Conrad.”
Conrad hurriedly turned toward the break room to see Fia standing at the doorway, holding the door frame for
support.
He was momentarily startled, but he quickly gathered himself and walked over to her.
“When did you wake up? Why didn’t you call me? What if you fell?”
“It’s fine. The door from the bed isn’t that far, and it was okay to walk the distance.”
Conrad took her hand in his, and she gripped it tightly. “Help me get to the couch?”
“Of course.”
Fia had just sat down when a knock came on the office door.
Conrad turned and called out, “Come in.”
Silas walked in, but he hesitated when he saw Fia sitting on the couch. When Conrad saw this, he was inexplicably
angry.
“What is it? Hurry up and say it. Stop stalling,”
Conrad had long since forgotten that he had instructed Silas to look into Annie’s background.
Faced with such a fierce tone, Silas reflexively said, “You asked me to look into Annie’s background, and I have the
results.”
Conrad frowned, and somehow he wished he could kill Silas with just his glare.
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmSilas shrank inward and said, “Why don’t we talk outside, Mr. Maxwell? Let’s not disturb Madam…”
“It’s not a bother,” Fia said with only one earbud in her ear. She pulled it out when she heard Silas’ words, then
turned in his direction and asked, “Why did you look into the girl’s background? Has she done something?”
Silas looked silently at Conrad but didn’t say anything.
Conrad thought about Fia’s recent nightmare and thought it wouldn’t hurt to let her know about this matter as it
might help to distract her.
“There’s something fishy about the girl, Annie Parker. I suspect she might be related to Finn, so I got Silas
to look into it.”
Fia tilted her head to the side. When she heard the surname, a suspicion hatched in her mind.
“So what’s their relation? Are they… father and daughter?”
Fia recalled that Finn had once mentioned he had a daughter.
Conrad turned to Silas with an expectant look.
Silas slowly said, “We’re not entirely sure they’re father and daughter. However, we discovered that Miss Parker had
recently returned to the country and came to Gryphon immediately after. She has also been meeting Director
Parker almost daily. Tiger is still checking, and he’ll let me know once he knows more
Fia was stunned. “They both have the same surname, and she came straight to Gryphon after returning to the
country. It’s more or less certain they’re father and daughter, right?”
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