Betrayed, Then Back For Blood

Chapter 58

Ashton’s gaze suddenly turned a bit enigmatic. Briar raised an eyebrow in confusion and asked, “What’s up?”

“I actually have a place there, too. I had Brandon send some people to clean it up a while ago,” Ashton said, giving the address of his villa in Moonspring Estate.

This time, Briar’s eyes lit up. “What a coincidence. My place is right next door to yours.”

Ashton simply replied, “Quite the coincidence indeed.”

Brandon, who was driving, couldn’t help but think, ‘Men and their lies. Ashton, you can only fool someone as innocent as Miss Jennings. There’s no way things are that coincidentat in this world.

‘Besides, Moonspring Estate and the Wade Group are on opposite ends of town. Are you living there on purpose to make trouble for yourself?‘

Briar, being innocent, didn’t catch on.

“I was planning to head to Moonspring Estate after dropping you off at the Jennings residence tonight anyway,” Ashton said, coming up with

a perfect excuse for staying at Moonspring Estate.

Briar nodded. “That works out perfectly. We’ll be home together. You can get some rest early.”

gave a slight

asleep, asked, “How

some rest?”

to see if there were any dark circles under

his face. “Same as usual. Just dozed

said with a sigh. Her

I haven’t been able to

the people present who had witnessed that night, his words could be taken

thousand dollars tonight and try to get you to

she offered.

actually wasn’t confident about being able to get Ashton to sleep. But for some reason, she

words.

am I thinking? He’s Ashton, the powerful guy who can change Shoneport’s layout.

she wondered.

Ashton agreed without hesitation, even pulling out his phone and transferring 30 thousand dollars to Briar on

“You could wait to pay me until after you wake up. What if I fail to get

has successfully put me to sleep only a handful of times over the years, but

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