Chapter 1426

Bernard’s hand moved with lightning speed, the gun in his grip barking death as he dropped a goon in black with a single shot.

Just as he was about to pivot and target another, red laser dots danced across Eleanor’s body.

At the same moment, the gun in the hand of the black-clad assailant pressed coldly against Eleanor’s temple.

“Mr. Law.”

Three controllers, cradling their rifles, emerged slowly from the panic room within the safehouse.

“The terms laid out by Sector 2-5, Mr. Law. Comply, and your wife goes free. Otherwise…”

One of the controllers hadn’t even finished speaking when the goon pushed the gun harder against Eleanor’s head.

“Don’t hurt her!”

Bernard’s heart raced with fear at the mere posturing of the thug. It was clear now that his concern for Eleanor surpassed even his own life.

Even the slightest scratch on her, and he would be beside himself with anxiety.

at me, leave her out of

desperation. The leverage they held was Eleanor’s

spare her, but you have to atone with your own life, in

struck Eleanor like a death sentence. She gazed

be a fool.” He’d been hurt too many times for her. already; she couldn’t stand to see him play the

love and concern that shone in Eleanor’s clear eyes warmed

worry, I’ll be okay.” After soothing Eleanor’s fears, he shifted his intense gaze from

atone, but I won’t

the wilds of Montana, or when Bernard himself had Josef Caporal thrown in jail to be taught a harsh lesson. But since he had taken over, he had never allowed

not to the extent that

as the Syndicate’s leader, he knew a

fire a shot in penance,

gun, turning it on himself, and without flinching, fired into his

Bang-

the silence of the

of tinnitus filled her head as she looked on, dazed, at the man standing

delay, her vision blurred with tears as she saw the crimson blood flowing

drop that fell, it hammered a sharp pain

“Bernard!”

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