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Chapter 189 Play With Fire

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“Yunice-” Owen turned around, just about to speak to her–only to find the spot where she’d been standing was now empty. He froze, scanning the room, until his gaze landed on his expensive desk–then he shouted, voice sharp with alarm, “Yunice! What the heck are you doing!”

Everyone’s eyes shot toward his direction.

Yunice was standing on the desk–nearly waist–high off the ground–hauling a heavy wooden chair in her hands, staring intently up at the ceiling’s decorative paneling. Nobody knew what she was up to; they just thought she looked dangerously unhinged.

Before anyone could stop her, before anyone could reach up and pull her down, Yunice suddenly swung the heavy chair over her head–and smashed it into the ceiling.

With a thunderous crash, chunks of plaster and dust rained down; everyone instinctively dove toward Elsie, terrified she’d get hit.

Yunice didn’t stop. She slammed the chair into the ceiling again and again–until a loud metallic sound rang out.

In the midst of the dust and debris, Owen’s panicked voice cut through. “Yunice! What are you doing? That’s the gas line! If you rupture it, we’re all dead!”

Almost instantly, a sharp hiss filled the room as the gas valve cracked. The collective gasp from everyone was nearly lost beneath the sound of Yunice’s ragged breathing.

She stood on the desk, clutching the stool in her hand, smiling darkly at what she’d done.

Owen rushed to the study’s door, fumbling to unlock it but because it had been bolted from the inside, he struggled. His hands were clumsy; the door wouldn’t budge.

Paul and Lily held tightly onto Elsie, dragging her as far from the leak as they could.

But what good was distance?

All it would take was one spark, one burst of static–and none of them would make it out alive.

Yunice stood in the thickest cloud of gas, watching the others scatter like terrified vermin.

“You’re the ones who wanted me dead,” she said with a crooked, half–mad smile.

Owen shouted, “Yunice, what are you saying? That’s crazy talk! Get down right now–it could

blow

any second!”

The sudden concern caught her off guard. So he actually did care about me? A littler But what does that matter now? No one is getting out of this room alive.

Owen kept struggling with the door–until he realized the key was missing.

Chapter 189 Play With Fire

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Yunice finally jumped down from the desk. Her voice was clear and cold. “You all insisted on going to Madam Melina. Then I’ll just have to make sure you never leave.”