Chapter 487

Above the desert at that moment... John gazed at the screen displaying the two sisters' adorable faces, his previously tense expression softening into warmth. "Turn the car around," he ordered. Adam looked startled. "Boss, we're heading back already? Aren't we going into the desert to retrieve the young misses?" "No need." John leaned back in his seat, wearing the doting smile of a proud father as he watched Jane and Mina on the monitor. Though Frederick's audacious behavior had infuriated him enough to make him want to storm over and teach that brat a lesson he remembered little Jane hated being smothered with overprotection. As her elder brother, he needed to respect her independence and give her space. ——— Meanwhile elsewhere... Teacher Bell had already dismantled the metal detector with practiced efficiency. Straightening the extracted wires, he cut them into half-meter segments before distributing them to Elijah and Leonard with instructions to sharpen the tips against stones. Sel