"Zeno, I know I've let you down. Please let me go, and don't let Ms. Jensen take him away!"
Faye's voice was pleading, but her eyes were filled with struggle and pleas for help.
Zeno felt his chest tighten with pain, but he dared not say anything that might push her over the edge. Just as he was about to speak and reassure her, something happened.
The alligator snapping turtle by Shannon's feet shot into the air, and a strange black smoke enveloped Faye's head.
"Too much nonsense! You're interfering with official business!"
The next second, the black smoke scattered. Faye, who'd just been blocking Archie, collapsed.
Zeno immediately rushed forward and caught her. Then, his head snapped up, and he looked at Shannon in horror.
Shannon's expression remained calm as she listened to Albany grumbling in her head and said, "She's fine. She's just temporarily asleep.
"I need to take Archie in for investigation, and I'll deal with Faye afterward. You can take her home for now, and I'll come to you when it's time."
Hearing this, Zeno exhaled in relief. He held Faye tightly and solemnly turned to Shannon. "I'm counting on you, Ms. Jensen."
Shannon nodded. Agents of the Special Security Agency arrived not long after and took Archie away for investigation.
With that, Shannon met up with Hebrew.
Before she joined the show, Hebrew had said she could do whatever she wanted, but now that she'd cut off the livestream midway and exposed Archie's schemes to the public, the show might not even continue.
Hebrew finally relaxed. "That's fine!"
She was glad they could film. If Faye refused to air it, there wasn't much they could do about either.
After saying goodbye to the production crew, Shannon returned to her courtyard and took Benjamin with her. They spent some time digging into Faye and Archie's past-life records.
To their surprise, it wasn't like what they expected. Faye and Archie's past lives were not connected at all, and they'd never been married.
But when she kept looking into Faye's earlier lives, she found a different problem—Faye had no ties to Archie's past lives, but she was deeply entangled with the Drakenshade clan.
As Shannon probed further into six lifetimes, all of Faye's husbands had the last name Drakenshade, and they all came from the same bloodline.
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