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."

get Maja out first. The goons from K's outfit were already

Maja in his arms, lan made his way

the basement, the two stunned guards already dragged away by

silence that felt as if she was the only person left in

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

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

whom she had worried over, had

Maja, had just stepped out of the basement when a barrage of gunfire met

were

cto,

holding

Patric chuckled coldly.

you think you can get

you done?"

lips curled into a smirk as he pointed to his

deal with K, let him

grabbed Patric's collar, anger flashing in his

you lost your mind,

swatted his hand away,

lan, how about neither of us leave? Let's stay here on

to his fate,

grabbed a knife

looked like lan was

close to his heart as a

wasn't a surgeon. A slip of the

meant Eric

would have killed his

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