Tristan’s expression darkened.


    After Sylvia walked away, he bowed his head in despair.


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    Tristan did not move.


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    After a while, he looked up at Bruce and Catherine. His usually warm and clear eyes were now tinged


    with a red light. He said, “Are you satisfied now? She’ll never ept me again.”


    Bruce and Catherine froze.


    After a while, Catherine said softly, “We were wrong, Tristan. Let’s go home first. We’ll talk about it when


    we get back.”


    Tristan ignored her, turned around, and walked toward the road. His head was bowed, and his back


    looked very forlorn in the setting sun. Bruce and Catherine were worried and immediately chased after


    him.


    At that moment, in a luxury sports car in a parking lot not far away, Odell sat in the driver’s seat with a


    cigarette in his hand.


    The window was wound halfway down. His deep gaze looked at Tristan’s distant figure, then at the


    direction in which Sylvia left. He took a drag of the cigarette. White smoke spilled out from his lips and


    rose up to mingle in the air, obscuring his face. The car was quiet for a long time.


    Tara sat in the passenger seat. When she looked in the direction he was watching, her gaze turned


    panicked.


    After a long time, when Bruce and Catherine took Tristan away, and Sylvia and Sherry’s car also left, she


    finally said, “Let’s go back, Odell.”


    Odell withdrew his gaze, put out the cigarette, threw it away, and started the car.


    The car quickly drove into the traffic, headed in the direction of Lake Victoria Vi.


    Not long after, he said, “I still have some matters to attend to in the evening. I won’t apany you for


    dinnerter.”


    His voice was cold.


    Tara’s face paled. After being with him for so many years, she more or less understood him.


    ‘He only says he has something to do because he doesn’t want to apany me. Is it because I


    humiliated him by falling off the stage in public today? Or was it because that b*tch, Sylvia, was too eye-


    catching? ‘Or, did he think of something else? Mr. and Mrs. Ledger obviously already believe that Sylvia


    Tara did not dare to ask and could only reply softly, “Okay.”


    Sherry soon took Sylvia back to her own home.


    Not long after she came back, Aunt Tonya was sent back in a car. Sylvia waited for her at the door and


    was instantly relieved to see her in one piece. Aunt Tonya also ran up to her. When she saw Sylvia sitting


    in a wheelchair, her eyes reddened and she asked in tears, “Syl, what happened to your leg?” Sylvia


    replied with a smile, “I’m fine. I just identally injured my legs two days ago. It’s just a slight fracture.


    The doctor said it’ll heal after a while.” “Really? Was it really just a fracture?”


    Sylvia smiled. “Yes, really. Why would I lie to you?”


    Aunt Tonya sighed in relief, then asked her anxiously, “Syl, did they force you to do anything in the few


    days that they took me away?” Aunt Tonya would not believe her if she said no, so she confessed, “They


    wanted to force me to marry someone, but they didn’t seed.” “That’s good.” Aunt Tonya sighed again.


    “It’s all my fault. I’m old and useless. I must have made you anxious these few days.” Sylvia immediately


    frowned. “Aunt Tonya, this isn’t your fault. Don’t me yourself.”


    ‘If it weren’t for me, Aunt Tonya wouldn’t have been kidnapped. However, the real people to me


    should be the ones who plotted to kidnap her: Emmanuel, Dona, Sonia, Bruce, Catherine, Michael, and


    Tara. I’ll remember all of these people!’


    When Aunt Tonya saw her expression grow colder and colder, she hurriedly said, “Okay, okay, I won’t


    me myself. Don’t get angry. It’s bad for your health.” Sylvia pulled herself from her thoughts and


    asked, “Aunt Tonya, did they do anything to you these past few days?” “No. I was locked up in a


    basement one day, then I was taken to a house. They neverid a hand on me and also brought me food


    regrly. They just locked the doors and windows tightly so that I couldn’t escape.” Aunt Tonya pushed


    Sylvia into the house as she spoke and began to question Sylvia if she had encountered anything in the


    past few days.


    Sylvia chose her words carefully as she answered.


    Aunt Tonya was a person who could not stay idle. When she saw that the house was covered with dust,


    she finished speaking with Sylvia and insisted on cleaning it. Sylvia could not stop her, so she chatted


    with Sherry in the living room.


    bodyguard?”


    She could not let Aunt Tonya be kidnapped again.


    Sherry immediately said, “No problem. Leave it to me.”


    At night, after eating dinner, Sherry left.


    Aunt Tonya was tidying up in the living room. Sylvia could not help, so she took the binocrs and


    pushed her wheelchair outside to the courtyard.


    She had not been at home these two days, so the two little ones must have been anxious. She


    wondered if they would be waiting for her on therge terrace tonight. Aftering to the courtyard, she


    raised the binocrs and looked in the direction of the old Carter mansion.


    Sylvia saw the scene on therge terrace at once, and her gaze was startled.


    Odell’s tall figure sat on the sofa on the terrace. He held Isabel’s head in an armlock and yed with the


    pink binocrs that Liam usually used in one hand. Meanwhile, his other hand pressed Liam’s small


    head down beside him.


    He seemed to sense that Sylvia was looking over.


    He quickly put the binocrs in front of his eyes.