At the same time, they checked the files inside the Celestial Core.
Soon, a video file popped up.
A special note was attached to it.
“A Gift for Alan”
Olivia felt uneasy and looked at Alan.
“Do you want to watch it?”
Alan’s expression remained calm.
“Play it.”
Everyone fell silent.
Olivia opened the video file.
An image appeared on the screen.
The instant Alan saw the face on the screen, his pupils shrank.
It was Yvonne.
The girl who had once torn his heart apart.
Everyone saw her.
This was Yvonne, the woman their captain and Theodore had both loved so deeply.
There was another person standing in front of Yvonne in the video.
He looked around her age, a young man in his 20s.
Anger lingered on Yvonne’s face.
“What exactly do you want?”
The young man exuded the noble air of someone born to stand above others.
He looked at Yvonne with cold, indifferent eyes.
His voice was ice–cold. “You need to understand something. You are my fiancée. Do you know what you are doing?”
Yvonne snapped, “Bullshit! I never agreed to that!”
As Alan watched, the video, his heart clenched hard.
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Yvonne was engaged?
In the video, the young man wore a wicked smile, as if Yvonne’s words meant nothing to him.
“Does it matter whether you agreed?
“Even I do not have a choice. What makes you think you deserve one?”
Yvonne’s beautiful eyes turned icy.
“No one gets to decide my life for me. How I live it is my business.”
The young man sneered. “You still have not seen through your own fate. Pathetic.
“Do you really think I want to marry you? I would rather you die out there.”
Yvonne shot back. “If you want to be your family’s tool, then go be one. I am not interested.”
Violent rage flashed across the young man’s face.
He seized Yvonne by the throat.
Yvonne’s face flushed red in an instant.
The young man licked his lips and said coldly, “Do you know something? I could kill you right now.”
Yvonne struggled wildly. “Let go of me!”
But the young man continued speaking as if she had not said a word. “Everyone is laughing at me now. They say I cannot even handle one woman.
“You actually ran outside and fell in love with someone else?
“You really know how to make me look good, Yvonne Quinn.
“Do you really think I came here just to warn you?”
Yvonne’s face had turned crimson. She was in terrible pain, still struggling.
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Douglas burst into laughter. “Hah! Yvonne, how can you still be this naive? In Draconia, there are not many people I cannot touch. Clearly, they are not among them.”
Yvonne looked as if she were about to lose her mind. Her eyes were bloodshot, and tears glimmered in them.
“You animal! You bastard!”
Douglas smiled wickedly. “Go ahead and curse me. There are not many fiancés as good as I am.”
Douglas threw Yvonne to the floor.
With an indifferent expression, he said, “Those people must die. How could my life be stained by small fry like them?”
Yvonne roared, “Don’t you dare!”
Douglas simply scoffed. “Oh, please. What’s going to stop me?
“This isn’t a discussion. This is an ultimatum.
“If you want to keep what little you have left, don’t even think about touching those resources. For the rest of your days, you either stay in your lane and play the compliant woman behind Douglas Grant, or you can find a grave.”
He smiled, a sickening, arrogant twist of his lips. “And obviously, when you’re mine, those people have to go.
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I won’t have anyone embarrassing me or tarnishing my name.
Yvonne felt like her mind was breaking apart.
She stared at the piece of trash before her, sickened by how ruthlessly unhinged he was.
He had backed her into a corner with no way out.
Douglas commanded ice–coldly. “One month. That’s how long you get to decide. Either you vanish, or they get wiped out. Choose.
“If you fail to make a choice by the end of the month, I’ll choose for you. And trust me, I will make sure you have a front–row seat to watch them die, one by one, right before your face!”
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