Betrayed, Then Back For Blood

Chapter 227

Briar’s eyes flicked to the door, where Brandon’s men stood guard. She also kept her voice low as she said, “Not sure yet. The intel from our base is pretty thin. Even though Geoff and his family match a lot of evidence from the labs, I don’t think he’s Ben,”

lan kicked the unconscious Geoff on the floor with a hint of disdain. “Because this old bastard isn’t ruthless enough?“.

Briar smiled. “You noticed too?”

lan nodded. “Yeah, the moment I saw Geoff at the safe house, I had the feeling. He looks like a bad guy, but he doesn’t have that ruthless edge.”

Ben, a guy who single–handedly set up human labs all over the world and managed to stay out of the hands of every power for years, shouldn’t panic that easily.

lan even felt that catching Geoff’s whole family had gone way too smoothly, almost like someone was pulling strings behind the scenes. He thought, ‘None of it made sense.

‘If Ben were that easy to catch, he’d never have made it onto the DDC Vanguard Mercenary Special Operations Base’s list in the first place. And there’s no way that Briar’s intel is wrong.‘

Plus, with a mercenary’s instinct for danger, lan could tell that Geoff was just too weak, just a scapegoat, set up to take the heat for someone else.

“Even if he’s not Ben, the Garzas must be related to Ben behind the scenes,” Briar said, her eyes icy cold like she was staring at a dead man walking.

She’d shown no mercy while interrogating Geoff. If he just told the truth, maybe he’d suffer a little less.

But if he insisted on lying, he was about to learn what it truly meant to beg for death and not be granted it.

lan grabbed Briar’s arm just as she was about to step forward, grinning. “Briar, take a breather. Leave this small fry to me.”

‘With me here, there’s no way I’d let our elite instructor waste her energy on something this trivial, lan thought.

Briar was okay with that. Honestly, she was getting bored of beating them up anyway. A break sounded good to her.

Since they knew Briar was coming down to the basement for the interrogation, Brandon had his men stock the table ahead of time with all her favorite snacks and sweets.

Briar speared a piece of fruit and tossed it into her mouth, watching as lan tried every trick in the book to get answers. She didn’t find it gruesome, just dull.

Ashton finished up his work and came down to check on the basement. Standing at the door, he glanced up and saw Briar sitting at the table, looking like the boss, munching on fruit while watching the interrogation unfold.

at her soft, clean

posture to a good girl pose. “Yeah, I did.

break.”

to her hand. “Hurts? Is

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Sure enough, there was a tiny, thin, slightly red scratch on the

Briar’s skin was soft and delicate, and Ashton had asked just in time. Any later, and

without a trace.

Briar insisted, sounding completely justified and a

Ashton was speechless.

do? It was his girl, so of course, he had to

gently took her injured pinky,

red scratch faded to nearly nothing. He

head. “No,

and together, he and Briar turned their attention back to the Garzas, who were suffering a thorough

lan’s flashy

of fruit and replied, “Nope.

eyes. “Then you’re not hitting them hard enough. Ian, put some muscle into it. Did you

say so, I’m gonna let loose. But what if I end up killing

indifferently, “If they die, I’ll take the heat. It

aside the little whip in his hand and grabbed a massive iron

taking the blame, what am I waiting for? Time to cut loose and show them what

whipped him from every

drugs,

in lan’s hands, Geoff’s

Getting hit with that would be way worse

way Ashton was talking just plow, Geoff thought, ‘was he

I didn’t know that slipping up would lead to a fate worse than torture, a death far more unjust, I would’ve confessed everything