"You don't seem to be scared, Ms. Miller; looks like you're aware of what you'll face tonight, right?" Her brow lifted, Carol exuded an air of nonchalance, and she even leaned back slightly "Who sent you?" "Who else but Mr. Brown? He said he's bored of you. Thinks it's our turn for a bit of fun." "Is that so?" Carol's eyelashes fluttered down as if she were contemplating something.

Unable to restrain himself, the thug lunged at her.

With a swift roll, Carol dodged, but her head clipped the edge of a table, leaving her dazed.

The man grabbed her hair with a snarl, "You think you can fricking run from us?" Just as he finished his threat, the door to the coffee shop was kicked off its hinges, and a few bodyguards rushed in.

Carol, hand pressed to her bleeding forehead, watched as the bodyguards swiftly subdued her attackers. While Carol grabbed a glass aside, shattered it on the floor and ferociously dragged a shard across her wrist.

Blood poured from the wound, panic etching into the bodyguards' faces.

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darkened; he instructed the man near him, "Find out what happened." He left with the order right away; twenty minutes later, the

about the letter of understanding and left to meet you. Instead, she was ambushed by a group of men. No one knows exactly what transpired, but passersby intervened and saved her." His message? But Felix had sent no such message

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