Betrayed, Then Back For Blood

Chapter 223

Chapter 221

‘So, does that mean he’s not going to ask me any more questions for now?’ Briar wondered.

Her eyes flickered, and she instinctively leaned closer to Ashton, wondering, ‘Is this him agreeing to have a proper talk?’

Reece and Hamish couldn’t help but feel amused by Briar’s subtle moves. ‘So she has other identities after all?’ they thought. ‘How old is this girl anyway? Just eighteen, right? Does she even sleep, or does she spend all her time picking up new skills?”

Maybe Hamish’s gaze was too intense. Briar turned to him. “Hamish? Why are you looking at me like that?”

The expression on Briar’s face when she saw the jar with her mother’s brain inside was terrifying. Now, to distract her, Hamish, picking up on Ashton’s subtle hint, shrugged. “I’m just wondering how many more surprises you’re going to pull out of that little frame of yours.”

Briar just smited and said nothing.

“Everything’s sorted. Let’s head back,” Ashton said. The storm at sea had finally passed. He took a copied file from one of the black-clad bodyguards and handed it straight to Briar.

Briar put the file into her backpack and zipped it

shu

“Yeah, time to head back,’ Briar thought. ‘Once we’re back, I can way they’re getting away.”

let’s go.”

finally deal with the Garzas. With a 30 million dollar bounty on their heads, there’s no

They left a small team behind to guard the island, while the rest of the black-clad bodyguards followed onto the yacht.

The tension was suffocating, and none of the bodyguards dared to

say

a word.

window, resting her chin on her hand as she gazed out at the endless sea, lost in thought, perhaps,

and Hamish pulled Ashton aside

need to keep a

as simple as just kidnapping someone

in Briar’s eyes. Luckily, they were still overseas, and the Garzas weren’t nearby. Otherwise, he honestly wasn’t sure he could hold Briar back if

an eye on

they’d faced heading to Bersy Island, their trip back was eerily calm. But to Ashton, Reece, and Hamish, it felt like the eye of the storm, leaving them unsettled to their

unease only got worse. He grabbed Briar’s wrist and led her off the yacht, his

Ashton asked

that a bunch of foreign mercenaries suddenly showed up on the flight lists to Dasmieca. He already checked with Connor,

fast. Looks like the 30 million dollar bounty has even drawn out the ones

at Ashton, a flash of feigned innocence flickering in those wild, fearless eyes of hers. “Ashton, do

Chapter 221

only check now and then. But

earnestness, his dead-serious expression making it impossible to tell he was

straight for the car

Brandon. Reece leaned

things over for Briar this time, I doubt he’ll be able to coax her back. I heard

smirked. “You looking

again. “Of course! I can’t wait to

totally at the mercy of his 18-year-old girlfriend, having to grovel, sweet-talk, and apologize just to win her back…

two of them snickered and followed Briar into

Ashton was speechless.

wish. They got to watch Ashton start his “ex-chasing”

cherries? I had them flown in

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