Chapter 229 Not Be Swayed by Threats or Inducements

Evelyn took half a step back and pulled the half–drunk Grace behind her. She looked at them warily and said, “I don’t know Mr. Harper you’re talking about.”

Unexpectedly, the man acted as if he couldn’t hear her at all and said, “I’m sorry, Miss Shelton. Please cooperate.”

Evelyn took a deep breath and tried to calm herself down. “I told you, I don’t know Mr. Harper. You have no right to block me like this. Please get out of the way.”

“Miss Shelton, if you don’t cooperate, we can only take you there by force.”

As they spoke, they took a step forward.

Evelyn’s face darkened, and she looked back and forth between the strong men. She thought, “They won’t be swayed by threats or inducements, will they?”

Behind her, Grace seemed to feel that the atmosphere at the scene was a little strange. She leaned over and whispered in Evelyn’s ear, “Evelyn, what’s wrong?”

“It’s okay.” Evelyn glanced at her. “How are you? Can you walk on your own?”

“I can do it!”

Evelyn nodded and said in a voice that only the two of them could hear, but her eyes were fixed on the people beside her. “I’ll shout later, and you’ll run with me.”

Grace couldn’t keep up with her thoughts and only knew to listen to whatever she said. “Okay.”

After a few seconds of silence, she pinched Grace’s palm and said in

turned around, stepped forward, and gasped violently. The gentle wind that she had just felt

in the distance. Their lungs were burning due to their rapid breathing, and their movements slowed down uncontrollably.

After running less than a hundred

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avoid it, Evelyn turned around and looked up at the man’s face. Before

her.” A clear and melodious voice sounded from behind her. It was so

the man immediately took a few steps back, bowed slightly, and said

step he took seemed to step on the top of her heart. He walked in step by step and finally stopped in front of Evelyn. He looked down at the woman’s slightly red wrist, and his eyes were

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