Betrayed, Then Back For Blood

Chapter 245

Briar retorted, “But I’m just a woman!”

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Ashton laughed and pulled Briar into his arms. “Thinking of backing out? Babe, you know the ways I can make people suffer. You’d better just behave.”

The couple playfully bickered as they headed toward Briar’s villa. The curtains in the second–floor study only closed after they were completely out of sight. Larry asked impatiently, “Ruben, what did Ashton show you? Why did you change your mind so fast?

“Didn’t we agree to give him a hard time to make him back down? How did one hour alone with him in the study make you so eager to hand Briar over?”

Ruben looked at Larry’s anxious face, sighed, then opened a file on his phone that Ashton had sent him. “See for yourself.”

Larry grabbed the phone and read through it carefully. His anxious expression changed, and he stammered, “This… this is…”

Ruben nodded. “That’s right. Five years ago, during that massive operation to purge and assassinate mercenaries, many of the men we trained were killed by an unknown party. Briar almost died in that attack, and Ashton was the mysterious person who saved her.”

Shocked, Larry didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. “Fate is a damn magical thing sometimes!”

“It is,” Ruben agreed.

“So, should we tell Briar? She’s spent the last five years searching for this mysterious savior!”

Ruben shook his head. “Ashton said not to tell her for now. He wants Briar to figure it out on her own.”

“Kids and their games,” Larry mused. “Isn’t he afraid of taking it too far? If he really angers Briar, she might just paralyze him with a single needle.”

Ruben was speechless.

Meanwhile, at another villa, Briar brought Ashton home. The moment the door closed, before she even had a chance to turn on the lights, he pinned her against it. “Darling…”

a shower.” Her confidence crumbled as she felt something hard

don’t you

a shower, and I’ll make you soup to

smell of alcohol on Ashton was overpowering. He pressed his body closer against hers. Knowing Briar couldn’t resist his voice, he deliberately lowered it, coaxing her deeply, “I’ll keep you company while you make

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pushed the man pressing against her away and shoved him toward the stairs. “The third room upstairs is the guest room

shower.”

upstairs disappointedly to take

take a

door open and close upstairs before she turned and went into the kitchen. Larry arranged for housekeepers to

placed them in a pot. While waiting, she leaned against the counter, took out her phone,

she heard footsteps on the stairs. She quickly shoved her phone back into her pocket, turned around, and grabbed

wrapping around her waist from behind. He looked down at Briar’s face, flushed from the steam, his lips brushing against

a word and kept her

nibbled on one. His hands grew bolder, slipping under the hem of

his wandering hand through her

and asked slowly, “When will it

breath hitched as she felt his familiar hardness pressing against her lower

reached for a bowl to serve the restorative. Only then did Ashton

soup, Ashton took the bowl

carried the bowl to the dining table, sat

immediately. The feeling against her back was too aggressive. A blush spread from her ears

struggles awakened the beast within him. He tightened his grip on her slim waist, his voice low

sitting stiffly

truly scare her, Ashton stirred the restorative and asked calmly,