Betrayed, Then Back For Blood

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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…”

shower.” Her confidence crumbled as she felt something hard pressing against her. ‘Are

don’t you join

shame,” Briar said irritably. “Go take a shower, and I’ll

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 the soup, and then you can keep me company in the

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away and shoved him toward the stairs. “The third room upstairs is the guest room

shower.”

head upstairs disappointedly to take

take a

before she turned and went into the kitchen. Larry arranged for housekeepers to clean the villa every

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

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

his arms wrapping around her waist from behind. He looked down at Briar’s face, flushed from the steam, his lips brushing against her earlobe. “Honey, thank you for going to all

and kept her head down,

nibbled on one. His hands grew bolder, slipping under the hem of her shirt to trace circles

grabbed his wandering hand through her clothes. “Don’t

and asked slowly,

more minutes.” Briar’s breath hitched as she felt his familiar hardness pressing against

off the stove and reached for a bowl to serve the restorative. Only then did Ashton finally let

ladled out the hangover soup, Ashton took the

bowl to the dining table, sat down,

her back was too aggressive. A blush spread from her ears to her neck as she said uncomfortably,

his grip on her slim waist, his voice

instantly froze, sitting stiffly on his

her, Ashton stirred the restorative and asked calmly, “Honey, do