Goodbye, Mr. Ex: I've Remarried Mr. Right by Czy Season

Chapter 1398

Jeffrey muttered, "A shame. She was promising."

Pulling a blanket over Debra's face, he turned to Juan. "The four families will retaliate now that she's dead. Clean this up."

"How?"

"Burn her. Suppress the news of her death. Let no word leak tonight."

Without hesitation, Juan strode to the bedside, flicked open a lighter, and set the curtains ablaze. Flames crawled hungrily across the sheets, engulfing the figure beneath the blanket. Only when fire fully consumed the body did Jeffrey nod and exit.

At dawn the next day, Melody's funeral procession began.

gates.

first gunshot tore through a pallbearer's chest before anyone

Marion Houston!" someone

the fog, his forces fanning out behind him. Bullets rained down as the remaining bearers collapsed. The Nichols family guards

armed men poured from the estate,

vantage point, Jeffrey watched dispassionately Their enemies might have the- number, but they had enough ammunition. Marion could come in, but he could not go out

frowned at

going down," Jeffrey

men fought with reckless fury, their leader pressing forward through the hail of bullets as if

stepped out, Marion's pistol snapped up instantly.

resolve," Jeffrey remarked, unshaken.

is she?"