Irene Morton slightly raised her head, curling her lips.
"As you wish."
Irene Morton left a cryptic statement and looked at the already opened iron gate, "May I leave now?"
Asher Land hesitated for a full two minutes before nodding.
Irene Morton strode out without looking back at him.
"Sophie Smith..."
He still wanted to say something, but Sophie Smith placed her index finger on his thin lips.
"Asher Land, like you, I choose... to trust her one last time."
This time, Asher Land had indeed given Irene Morton enough punishment and a lesson, but whether Irene Morton would repent remained a mystery.
...
The two walked out of the basement together, and only then did Sophie Smith slowly warm up.
She didn't know how Irene Morton had spent the past three months, but thinking back, she could imagine the agony, as she had once been in there and could empathize.
Seeing her lost in thought for a long time, Asher Land pinched her waist.
