The Woman From Hell

"So you're saying you guys didn't know I was in the Yards' mansion until you received a mysterious text message?"

I finally understood the ins and outs of their investigation after we talked the entire way home.

However, the text message they spoke of was suspicious.

Shannon nodded. "You're right. The Yards really have a way of keeping secrets. We couldn't find traces of you no matter how we searched. If it wasn't for that text message, we wouldn't have gone to the Yards' mansion today with people.

"But the Yards seemed to have found out about it sooner than we did as they moved you and kept us from finding you. Shannon only got your message after the inspectors left. We had them leave first so as not to alert them before turning back to the mansion to look for you."

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"How did the message look like?"

Marius opened the message on his phone and passed it over to me.

A simple message was written on it: [Wanda is at the Yards' mansion].

It was an encrypted number.

"I already got Drover to help us crack it. I have no idea if he's had any success with it, though." Marius took back his phone and looked at me. "The most important thing is that you're safe."

I had not apologized to him for what happened back then yet. Meeting his gaze, I said in a soft voice, "Marius, I'm sorry... about last time."

"It's alright. I accept your apology," he replied with a smile and a tap on my head.

Tyler immediately sat upright. "Although we're leaving the Yards' mansion now, Silas did leave a warning before we left. We'll be enemies with the Yards from today onward. Shouldn't we have some measures in place?"

This was indeed troubling for everyone. I shook my head. "Who knows what they'll do? How are we going to deal with them?"

"It's nothing more than them stealing our business. Don't tell me they'll send people undercover to carry out some dirty tricks?"

"That's not necessarily the case. He

informed his enemies of my

existence the last time I refused to go back to the family, and they came troubling me one after another He probably won't let us go this time."

Considering Silas' cruel methods, I would not be surprised if he continued to do the same.

"Why don't we move against him first? We can contact everyone to go up against the Yards together?"

"Based on our previous plan, I think it's good for us to form an Anti-Yard Alliance."

"Not too shabby a name." Marius smiled at me.

Tyler stroked his chin and said slowly, "He has a lot of enemies. We can't simply recruit anyone hastily. We need to deal with the main ones and then the rest will be easy."

"You're not wrong. The ones who are the most difficult to deal with for the Yards are probably the Zekes and the Wagners. They were bullied by the Yards quite a bit back then, and now their businesses have been growing bigger and bigger. But it's been many years since they had cut contact with the Yards. I heard that they still do engage in some foul play secretly, though."

"We'll split up, then. Ty and Marius will go to the Wagners while Shannon and I will pay a visit to the Zekes."

"Alright."

Tyler reminded, "The Zekes have the deepest feud with the Yards, so please don't mention that you're related to them. Otherwise, I worry they might..."

"Don't worry, Ty. I do possess a sense of propriety. Besides, we're trying to recruit them to go up against the Yards together. They won't believe me unless I explain why." "Fine then. Anyway, be careful."

I knew Tyler was worried, so I nodded at him. "Got it. We will. Shannon, we'll do a little research first to understand them."

Shannon gestured an 'OK' sign. "Alright."

Shannon and flipped open the laptop and started looking into the Zekes' relationship with the Yards. There was very little information on the internet, however, and we only managed to find some insignificant information despite researching for a long time.

"What do we do, Wanda?" Shannon looked worried.

I suddenly thought of someone...