"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.

toward the exit, her voice cool and detached, "Take these guys away and teach them

subject, he bristled with anger. How could he hand it over so easily?

wanted to trouble Maja with this, given her pregnancy and

had proven reliable, responding even in the dead of night, which gave

Carol collapsed and was rushed

bombarded her phone with calls, which went unanswered as she

to check her whereabouts; only then did he know she was in the hospital. He immediately left an important meeting and hurried to

significant blood loss. Felix's expression darkened; he instructed the man near him, "Find out what happened." He left with the order right away; twenty minutes later,

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 to

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