Celestial Queen: Revenge Is Sweet When You’re A Zillionaire Heiress

Chapter 1497:

Shock seized Trenton. Multiple lives? She couldn’t possibly know about that. He was certain he hadn’t disclosed anything. How could she know he had been responsible for so many deaths? It had to be a trick. Surely, she was just guessing!

Frantically, Trenton replied, “No, miss, you misunderstand. I made my face look dangerous on purpose. I’ve never actually spilled blood before, and this abduction was my first offense.”

Watching him intently, Harlee’s expression remained unfeeling, her voice low and firm.

“Is that the case? Then it’s time you made amends.”

Trenton trembled at her statement. What did she mean by that? What did she want from him?

Harlee continued, “If you divulge everything about your employers in this kidnapping, I’ll take your claims to be true.”

He replied almost reflexively, “I know nothing of who employed us. A card, a note, and a photo taken secretly were left in my rented room. The instructions on the…”

The note was clear: take you, the woman in the photo, to the abandoned factory at the city’s edge, and afterward, four million more would be transferred to the card.

earnestly added, “I swear, miss, on everything dear to me, that I don’t know anything more about the employer. I would never have risked it

If not for the twenty million found on the card, he might have dismissed it as nothing

sharply, her gaze slicing through the tension as if she could

for more

his bloody past was about to be

retrieved her phone from her pocket

through, edged with

you’re not

said, her

fully alert, Rhys

something amiss, leaned in

her eyes fixed on Trenton as he

an alley leading

“I’m on my way.”

passenger seat by the time he spoke. Brenton, on the other hand, was firmly positioned behind the

held her ground, her expression steady, though