Chapter 1623

"Tessa contacted you? How's that possible? You must have a direct line to The Lucent. Otherwise, how could a high school club ever get on their radar?" Maeve said. Zion was standing nearby when he cut in. "There's no need to waste time talking. I'll have my men drag him out. He'll spill everything in just an hour." Jonathan's face drained of color at Zion's words. The rumors about Zion's methods were terrifying enough to make even hardened men shudder. Maeve cast a reproachful glance at Zion and spoke with deliberate exaggeration, "Zee! How could you use those brutal methods of yours on the nation's youth? What if you accidentally kill him? We can't be doing something that heartless." "That's right! That's right! You can't be that heartless! We're the youth of the nation, after all!" Max quickly chimed in. Maeve continued, "But I must say, this boy has sacrificed quite a lot for The Lucent, which speaks to his loyalty. "Maybe just a few lashes with a barbed whip would suffice.