Tears streamed down Maja's cheeks in heavy drops as the weight of her predicament bore down on her.

What was she to do? After all the trouble to find her mother, was she to leave her in this cold, dreary basement?

Who could be so cruel? Who was responsible for this?

Her lips tightened, a cold fury settled in her eyes. Never before had she felt such a desire to take someone's life.

"Maja."

lan wrapped his arms around her, feeling utterly helpless.

He had planned for every contingency, but he hadn't expected the stronghold where they held Cynthia to be so impenetrable.

Gunshots still echoed in the background as he lifted Maja into his arms.

She tried to struggle, but her strength was failing her.

"I'm sorry, you need to rest."

With a swift chop to the nape of her neck, lan knocked her out.

Maja's eyes widened in disbelief before she slipped into unconsciousness.

Behind them, Cynthia remained seated behind the door, oblivious to the chaos outside, her detached expression unchanged.

lan signaled to his men with a calm voice.

"Have the mute caretaker that looked after her continue to do so."

"Understood."

out first. The goons from K's outfit were already on their

arms, lan made his

the silence of the basement, the two stunned guards already

quiet again, as it always was for her, a silence that felt as if she was the only person

sturdy walls of the basement, over a thousand cameras watched her, like

to the basement closed slowly, Cynthia remained unaware that someone had tried to rescue

worried over, had

just stepped out of the basement when a barrage

were

noticed Patric had cto,

frowned, holding Maja

Patric chuckled coldly.

think you can get out

have you done?" lan

lips curled into a smirk as he

made a deal with K, let him plant a

collar, anger flashing in his

you lost your mind,

swatted his hand

gone mad. lan, how about neither of us leave? Let's stay here

his fate, unafraid of dying at lan's

and grabbed a knife from nearby, slicing open the fabric over

looked like lan was determined to find

the tracker close to his heart as a safeguard against

a surgeon. A slip of the knife, and Patric was a

died, it meant Eric would

lan would have

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