Facade of Love

Chapter 72

Chapter 72 Trying to Buy Me for a Hundred thousand?

I did not want to discuss more over the phone, so I asked him to text me the address. I hung up, ready to hop in the car and leave. Just as I was about to get in, Idris yanked me back. I was annoyed by his interruption, and with a frown, I shot him a glare. “What’s the matter, Idris?”

He glanced at my leg and said, “You’re planning to drive in this condition?”

Catching his gaze, I noticed the scrape on my leg for the first time. I had nicked it while hastily scaling the wall. It was a bloody mess, looking rather gruesome, but it was not serious. Thus, I had not given it much thought.

I pressed my l*ps together, not in the mood for idle chatter, and said flatly, “I’m fine.”

With that, I made to get back in the car, but he hoisted me into the passenger seat without a word. After buckling me, he slid into the driver’s seat and fired up the engine.

I was long accustomed to his antics. Busy with tasks at hand, I did not feel like wasting more time with him. I pulled up the address Maxwell had sent me and said, detached, “Drive there, please.”

We reached our destination in no time.

guy in an

of a derelict truck outside,

crossed and a wild grass stalk hanging from his mouth, looking every bit like a street tough.

do you think? Do I look like a gang leader?” He hopped off the hood, dusted

forced a laugh and replied with a smirk, “You sure think highly of yourself. Where’s our guy?

his tongue and lazily

entered, we found Doctor Miller bound hand and foot, dangling from a beam. His mouth was gagged, leaving him hanging from the ceiling, whimpering but

followed us in, grumbling. “Offered me a hundred thousand to let him walk. Do I look like I’m worth only a hundred thousand? The

mouth as I shot him a sidelong glance. “You strung

“What else? He’s seriously underestimating me. I can’t stand it when people look down on me. He

that Doctor Miller was not exactly rolling in money? Otherwise, I might

Maxwell. “Let him down, will you?”

interrogate him, his neck would not be able

where, and sliced through the

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