Chapter 388 - The visit (1/2)

”You mentioned you had some leads the last time,” Lei Zhao finally spoke. Always one to go straight for the solutions, he was already thinking of ways to help Edward come to a quicker resolution of his troubles.

Sadly, the men they were up against were some of the very best in the business. Lei Zhao hated to remember it, but he had suffered his biggest loss to date at their hands, when he thought his older brother was killed in an accident.

It was why he could relate to Edward's pain. They had both suffered extremely in the hands of these ruthless men and no matter how long it took, they were going to make certain they got justice for the ones they had lost.

”I did, in fact,” Edward responded to Lei Zhao's inquiry. ”Which is why I called you here today. I want to move in on them. See if I find out some more information. Because I have to find who gave the order.

These people we found are worthless to me except as bait. How soon can you arrange a smart and efficient team for this purpose?”

He looked at least ten years older than his age as he spoke to his friend. The toll that nightmare had taken on him seemed more intense than ever.

”Consider it done, brother,” Lei Zhao assured Edward, moving over to where he was seated, to give him a reassuring pat on the shoulder.

Edward relaxed visibly from the brotherly gesture but the knots on his neck did not go away.

He nodded tiredly and shaking hands with Lei Zhao, he pushed the button that would let his friend back up into his outer study room.

He would turn off the light in the Other Room and just sit there in the darkness for some kind minutes, trying to regain some semblance of energy before reappearing back up to face his actual tasks for the day.

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Amy woke up with a pounding headache tearing away at her head and with her eyes still closed, she wrapped her blanket over her head, groaning.

But in her opinion, they were both the same. She had even gone as far as googling the symptoms of a panic attack before she started to concede to Chynna's view. Being an overthinker had never been easy for her. From happy thoughts on the bus, she had gotten home and recreated the evening in her mind, analyzing Edward's every word until she fixated on the one thing he had said to ruin everything.

She had ended up crying about the fact that he did not like her even a little bit and he just used her to let off some steam. He had not really wanted her company in particular, he just needed not to look stupid sitting up there alone listening to music like a lonely person.

And that hurt worse than it was supposed to. The tears had flowed freely then, and once in that mood, she never really knew how to stop until she had used up all her energy and fallen into a tired sleep.