Chapter 1972

The next morning, Seth was still sound asleep in the guest room of the antique house. Tiana kicked the door open and yanked the covers off him. "Seth, stop playing dead! Get up and go back where you came from!" Seth slowly turned over. His face, once rosy in the morning, was now pale and gaunt, and his body looked fragile. He lay back down and coughed a few more times before weakly speaking. "Tia, you're here? Come sit." Tiana hesitated after seeing his pitiful state. "Stop pretending. Gem has already told me everything. You're not sick. You just came here to stir up trouble. Get up now, or I'll have security to throw you out." Just as she finished speaking, the bathroom door opened, and Avery emerged, holding a trash bin. Upon seeing Tiana, he quickly hid behind it, looking guilty as if he had done something bad. "What's that you're hiding? Let me see it." Tiana was curious. "It's nothing, Madam," Avery said, stiffening and shaking his head frantically. Tiana wasn't fooled. Sh