Facade of Love

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.

our guy in

we pulled up, he was perched on the hood of a derelict truck outside, waving us over from

there, legs crossed and a wild grass stalk hanging from his mouth,

look like a gang leader?” He hopped off the hood, dusted his clothes, and asked me

a smirk, “You sure think highly of yourself.

his tongue and lazily pointed towards the factory. “Inside.

tied the guy up. To my surprise, when Idris and I 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 unable

us in, grumbling. “Offered me a hundred thousand to let him walk.

corner of my mouth as I shot him a sidelong

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

i be relieved that Doctor Miller was not exactly rolling in money? Otherwise, I might not have been able to

deep breath, turning to Maxwell. “Let him down, will

him, his neck would not be able

knows where, and sliced through the hanging rope. Doctor Miller plummeted to the ground, his face contorting in