Betrayed, Then Back For Blood

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Reece and Hamish had just lifted their cup, ready to take a sip, when the words reached their ears. The sex that went down almost came right back up.

Coughing, Hamish shot Briar a thumbs–up, his admiration sincere. “Priar, your love for Ashton is truly one of a kind!”

Reece, meanwhile, cast Ashton a look that hovered somewhere between envy and pity. “Ashton, it looks Per Briar will love you deeply for the rest of her life. And when you die, she’ll love you even more

Reece and Hamish thought, ‘Of course she would. She would love Ashton enough to split open extract the bones one by one, and carefully preserve them as a specimen.

his

corpse

‘Maybe she’d even hang the skeleton in her bedroom, and talk to it every day.

‘Hiss–just imagining it was enough to make one’s scalp prickle!

Completely unaware of the scenes they had conjured in their minds, Briar remained utterly absorbed in the data scrolling across her micro–computer screen. Their conversation washed over her as though it didn’t exist at all.

But only Briar knew how distracting Ashton’s searing, probing gaze had become.

In the end, she could only hesitate, then reluctantly turned her head to meet Ashton’s eyes. “Hubby, don’t look at me like that.”

The corner of Ashton Wade’s eye twitched violently. She had called him “hubby” in front of everyone. It seemed that the girl was truly flustered.

Ashton pondered, ‘Was she afraid I’d press for details? That’s very interesting

Ashton felt a pang of jealousy, wondering what kind of dazzlingly handsome men those thirty–seven skeletons Briar had hidden away once belonged to.

Yet, in the end, Ashton said nothing. He only reached out, pulled her into his arms, and lowered his head so that his cheek brushed lightly against the curve of Briar’s neck. “Alright, I won’t ask anymore.”

‘Not asking didn’t mean I couldn’t investigate in secret! Ashton thought.

Briar remained expressionless, enduring the teasing, knowing glances that accused them of shamelessly flaunting their affection.

young lovers in the group, couldn’t bear

weren’t just to shut Ashton up, I would never lower myself to such

an hour slipped by

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Brandon and fan dragged Harith Lopez out, battered, broken, and unconscious. Without hesitation, they tossed him into

everyone, it didn’t cause much of a

to handle the aftermath. He pulled out his phone and instructed his

crew.

from the camera and handed it to Briar. “Young Madam, this contains the full record of Harith Lopez’s interrogation. Please review

interrogation of Harith Lopez on Briar’s mini–computer. Watching it again was less about curiosity and more about the slim hope of uncovering some overlooked

it into her computer, and pulled up the footage. She set the device on the low table in the centre of the room so that everyone

image was crystal clear. Too clear. The scenes were brutal, the sounds raw and bloody. Yet no one looked away. This was

little to reveal. As for the true mastermind behind him, the hidden

so

twice, Reece, who was no stranger to ruthlessness, felt his skin crawl at the interrogation methods he had

Harith had endured it all, giving up nothing. Not a single word.

refused to reveal the mastermind’s identity even at that point, doesn’t that in itself suggest just how powerful the

even on the brink of death, he wouldn’t dare utter a

also agreed, “Exactly. For someone to terrify a man as fearless as Harith,

Everyone present was a veteran at reading between the lines. They immediately understood the

then what do we

easy for Briar to make it

mastermind was truly too exalted to touch,

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Briar would be devastating.

me?