Athena tilted her head and let out a sudden laugh.
"Marlon, you can't even measure up to Kerwin's little finger."
"Smack!"
Marlon slapped her again.
Both sides of Athena's face were swollen, looking quite frightening.
She lowered her eyelashes and spat, tasting the metallic tang of blood.
Marlon went to the front to drive, leaving Athena handcuffed in the car, her cheeks stinging with pain.
She still couldn't fathom why Marlon hadn't returned to the Keller family to take charge. Why had he shown up here instead?
It wasn't until evening, when she caught a news bulletin on the car radio, that it all made sense. Marlon had been back in Greenfield, silencing a few government agents poking around the Keller family. He'd even managed to transfer all of the family's liquid assets. Now, as long as he could smuggle himself out of the country, no one could touch him.
If he made it abroad, the wealth he'd moved would be enough to start anew, though he'd never return home.
Yet here he was, trailing Athena, seemingly intent on taking her with him.
Athena found it amusing. Listening to the broadcast, a smirk curled her lips.
"The great heir of the Keller family, the head of the clan, now a fugitive on the evening news—quite the downfall, huh? I bet every cop in the country is on your tail. If they don't sentence you to death, it's an injustice to the whole nation."
Marlon drove on, his eyes growing colder at her taunting words.
Her sarcasm drew no reaction from him, and soon enough, she lost interest.
The car eventually stopped at a location where a few men in black suits were waiting to exchange words with Marlon. After a brief conversation, Athena was led to a helicopter.

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Author, would you story about Ryan settling down and another story on Eric regaining his body and memories back from Patrick, and Eric also settling down as I find it so disheartening for him to have gone through what he went through at the research institute, and I'll like for him to get his "golden boy" life back though, not at the detriment of Ian....
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