Chapter 177: Subduing Criminals

That order was stupid, Athena thought.

If she were in the gang, she would have shot the target and blamed it on an accident. But the gang members were loyal to a fault.

Still...

"So, what are you going to do now? Walk away? That seems like cowardice?" Athena asked, flexing her fingers as if warming up for a fight.

"Careful, Doctor Athena. I might not have been given the order to kill you, but it doesn’t say anything about maiming you. I’m the one with the gun here." Heronica’s voice dripped with arrogance.

Athena laughed, a sound that was both startling and cold, before a chilling glint settled in her eyes.

"Not for so long..." She muttered, her instincts kicking into high gear as she deftly lunged forward, grabbing Heronica’s wrists in a swift motion.

In one fluid movement, she pulled the woman toward her, twisting her body around so her back was now to Heronica’s front.

With a sudden, sharp tug, Athena disarmed her opponent, the gun slipping from Heronica’s grasp and into her own deft hands.

"Who’s holding the gun now?" Athena questioned, her voice steady as she aimed the weapon at Heronica, who stood there, bewildered, her bravado shattered by the rapid shift in power.

"You..." Heronica stuttered, her confidence evaporating as she began to sweat, the cold glint in Athena’s eyes amplifying her panic. "How did..."

Athena, noting the silencer attached to the gun, thoughtfully clocked it in place. Without hesitation, she shot the weapon less than a foot away from Heronica’s foot.

the criminal jumped in fright, any

softly, savoring the moment. "Not so

Let’s have a talk before I let my

darting around the area

gang?" Athena asked, keeping the gun

the situation. "What else? To

nodded, her mind racing. "Quite understandable. So,

every way... the children, your

furrowed her brows, mentally recalculating the positions of everything that Heronica had just

with

and more fortified than the gang, so it

knitted tighter. But the lab was in a secret location. She had sensed she was being watched for a while, but she hadn’t thought they would be able to discover the location. Even if they

pressed her lips together, considering that he was with Sandro. He had finally regained consciousness two days ago, even though his eyes had remained closed—He had murmured her name one night while she’d been working in the drug lab for

the early hour of three a.m., she had called Aiden to transport him

her work, and wasn’t up for the mushy stuff that might arise when

she was concerned, there was no way the gang would have known about Ewan’s

sense of conviction. The latter was just bluffing. If anything, the gang was the one in the

her trench coat with her left hand while still

location

Heronica, she noticed the

to regret a lot of things in the coming days. I just wish I

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