“We‘re here, Uncle Malcolm!” Nellie led him to a pinewood door and pointed at the doorknob, smiling.
“You‘ll have to go in yourself, Uncle Malcolm. I have some sketches I need to catch up on, so I won‘t be
coming in with you. “I‘m in the middle of designing a nice bracelet for you, and I’ll join you as soon as
I‘m done!”
Malcolm curled his lips into a triumphant smile and gently stroked Nellie’s hair.” I‘m a man, so why do I
need a bracelet?”
“This bracelet is a special one!” Nellie winked at him meaningfully. “You‘ll find out after I‘m done with
the sketch!”
With that, she turned and pattered away.
Malcolm smiled as he watched her leave.
What an adorable little child.
He could not help wondering if she would still be so happy after she found out that the only reason he
had come here was to kidnap them and cut off one of her fingers so that he could threaten Joshua with
it…
When Nellie‘s figure finally disappeared from view, Malcolm let out an exhale and gently pushed the
door open.
Nigel and Neil were far more mature than naive, simple–minded Nellie, so he had to be more careful
not to expose his true motives.
He pushed the door open.
The lights inside the room were switched off, and there was no light at all apart from some streaks of
sunlight seeping through the window. The room was so dark that he could not make out anything inside
it at all.
Malcolm furrowed his brows as he slowly stepped in. “Why is it so dark in here?”
Thud–!
The door slammed shut behind him, and with another loud thud, all the lights in the room were turned
on.
The sudden burst of light was excruciating on his eyes, and Malcolm instinctively raised his arm to
block out his eyes.
Finally, after his eyes adjusted to the brightness, he lowered his hand.
He was stunned by the scene before him. “You…”
Where were Nigel and Neil?
The only people inside the room were two men dressed in black.
One of them was Jim, who was rubbing his hands together in glee, and the other was Joshua, leaning
against the wall with his arms crossed, sneering.
Malcolm‘s brain seemed to freeze at the sight of these two men.
A split second later, he realized that he had been tricked.
He had walked right into Nigel, Neil, Be3“}^E} Nellie‘s trap!
When they called him, they had wailed and sobbed about how Joshua and Luna neglected them in
favor of Riley and the missing child.
Because of this, he had fallen right into their trap and even planned to use them to threaten Joshua, but
to his surprise… The three children had been lying to him all along!
They had lured him out of hiding and tricked him into coming here!
“How did the lemonade taste?” Joshua curled his lips into a smile when he saw how pale Malcolm‘s
face had gotten. “Didn‘t you wonder why my children were so stupid as to come to you for help,
knowing what happened between us?
“Did you somehow think that you could use the children to threaten me into returning all of the Quinn
family‘s assets to you so that you can reclaim the throne?”
Joshua could not help snickering when he said this. “How stupid do you think my children are?”
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