"If you want to lecture me, then get the hell out! I don''t want to hear your useless chatter!"


    "You think I want to waste my breath on you?" Quennel stood up, ring at him through clenched teeth. "What if those people actually have information about Cheryl, and now they won''t give it up because you ruined everything? How are we supposed to find her then?"


    "They definitely don''t have anything!"


    "And how do you know that? Do you have proof? If you do, show it to me!"


    "I..."


    Lionel stammered, unable to utter a single word, and could only re back at him, gritting his teeth.


    "Let''s face it, you don''t have any evidence. You''re just being arrogant, assuming they don''t! Let me tell you, if they did have something, and now they refuse to share


    it because of you, I''d like to see how you''ll exin that to Hannah!"


    With that, Quennel stormed out of the room in a fury.


    Lionel sat there alone, a bted sense of dread washing over him.


    If what Quennel said was true, then he had truly messed up.


    But... how could anyone know if it was real or not!


    Lionel wanted to say more, but Quennel was already gone.


    -


    After leaving the hospital room, Quennel didn''t immediately take action. Instead, he


    sat in his car and opened a message he had received earlier.


    His contact had sent him several more video clips.


    The footage showed Hannah visiting Lionel earlier that day.


    The moment Lionel was admitted to the hospital after the attack, Quennel had arranged for people to keep an eye on hm, worried that Lionel would use his injuries to win back Hannah''s sympathy.


    He had given them orders to notify him immediately if there was any sign of that happening.


    He had to nip that possibility in the bud.


    Fortunately, Lionel seemed to have lost his mind, and the things he was saying were only making him looke worse. He would have been better off giving Hannah the cold shoulder like he used to, instead of running his mouth.


    However, aside from the people he''d sent to the hospital, the men at the ruins yesterday were also part of his n.


    Neither Hannah nor Lionel knew


    about this. A while ago, he had


    stumbled upon some information


    about Cheryl. After much


    consideration, he decided to use this


    method to tell Hannah.


    His original n was to have his men attack Hannah after she went to the ruins and


    got the information, at which point he would swoop in and save her.


    It would have been the perfect hero-saves-the-damsel scenario.


    But unexpectedly, the information leaked, and Lionel found out.


    And Lionel, acting on his own, went there himself, ruining the entire n.


    But it didn''t matter. This worked too.


    He could now im he "identally" learned about these people from Lionel, and then get rid of them for Hannah. The credit would still be his in the end.


    Lionel, it''s toote for you to do anything now. Hannah will never trust you again! Quennel picked up his phone and made a call.


    "Send another letter to Hannah. The meeting is in two days, same ce. After you send it, get out of the country."


    "Yes, sir!"


    Following Quennel''s instructions, his contact arranged for another letter to be delivered to the Temple family estate.