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Chapter 738
Early morning “Wow! There’s so much snow! Liam, come out and play!” Isabel bolted out of the living
room and hopped like a bunny in the snow-covered yard.
In the neighboring house, Sylvia’s room. She was awakened by the familiar noise of Isabel’s cries and
promptly got out of bed.
The bedroom was engulfed in darkness. It was as if it was still in the middle of the night.
She could distinctly hear Isabel’s voice coming from outside. She was telling Liam to come out and play
with her.
She walked barefoot to the window and pulled the curtains back.
What came into view was a giant sheet of metal.
The sheet of metal covered the entire window and blocked off what view there was.
She could not pry it away from the window no matter how hard she tried.
She frowned.
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She noticed no such installation when she closed the curtains before heading to sleep last night. How
did this thing appear out of nowhere overnight? She decided to not give it too much thought and quickly
left the room.
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All she wanted now was to see Isabel and Liam!
She quickly headed to the yard after leaving the room. This time, she was greeted by the same
spectacle of a giant metal sheet attached to the gate in her yard. It was previously a fence gate but now
it acted like a wall that separated her yard from the outside world. Furthermore, there was a large chain
attached to the gate. There was no way to open it without a key.
She stomped her feet angrily.
Who else but Odell could come up with something like this?
She immediately reached for her phone and that was when she noticed the message she received an
hour ago:“ Don’t try to meet the kids or I’ll have you banished back to Galston.”
She quickly typed a reply, “Odell, I’m not going to try to meet them. I’m just trying to go out on a walk.
Can’t you have someone open the gate for me?” It was true, she wanted to meet them. But if that was
not
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possible, she could just spy on them from a distance!
Ding ding.
Odell replied almost instantly. Sylvia read the single-word reply, “No.”
She gnashed her teeth.
Suddenly , her phone rang again with another message from Odell that read, “Don’t you dare make any
noise either or I’ll have you banished back to Galston.”
Sylvia was speechless.
She wore a tight grimace.
Meanwhile, she could hear the noise coming from the adjacent yard as well as Isabel’s hearty
chuckles. She seemed to be having a good time.
She drew out a deep breath. Then she approached the wall that connected the two yards and pressed
her ear against it to listen to their voice.
“Liam, let’s make a head for the snowman!”
“Liam, hurry up!”
Isabel was prattling on and on.
Liam would only speak from time to time and caution her, “Be careful of the slippery snow.”
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Although she could not see their faces, listening to their tender and high-pitched voices was enough to
put a smile on her lips.
The voices that she had dreamt of constantly over the last half year.
She closed her eyes and listened quietly and attentively. Suddenly , her eyes began to water against
her will and soon, drops of tears poured out of the corners of her eyes.
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She continued listening to them playing. Her bare feet had been buried inside a dense thicket of snow
the entire time but she barely noticed the freezing cold.
Soon, she heard the voice of Sebastian telling them that it was time to go to school.
She listened to their stomping footsteps and judged that they were heading outside. She quickly
shuffled her feet to the gate as well. Through the dense layer of metal sheet, she could distinctly hear
the sweet voice of Isabel bidding farewell, “Bye-bye Baddie, bye-bye Uncle Sebastian.” Odell made no
reply. Sebastian answered lovingly, “Goodbye, young miss and young master.”
Sylvia heard the engines roar, then the sound of tires rolling through the pavement.
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She came back to her senses.
She raised a hand and wiped the tears away from her eyes. Just as she was about to head back to the
house, she heard a sudden clatter.
The chain wrapped around the door dropped to the floor. The door was slowly pushed open. Then she
noticed a long, slender leg stepping in through the threshold.
Before she had time to recollect her emotions, Odell stepped in and confronted her head-on.
She stared at him all wide-eyed.
Odell sized her up and down and locked his brows into a frown.
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