Chapter 0158

‘Think you can just walk away? You won’t get far!‘

Yorick lounged in a restaurant corner, eyes fixed on Amber and Queenie. He fiddled with an empty bottle, spinning it between his fingers.

He hurled the bottle to the floor only when they reached the door. His grin twisted. “If playing nice doesn’t cut it, it’s time to get tough. Go!”

Amber’s grip on Queenie’s arm was iron–tight as they stood frozen outside the restaurant, staring at the sleek Audi A8 parked a stone’s

throw away.

The time was edging past seven–thirty. Usually, the streets would be alive with foot traffic. However, a strange silence hung over the

restaurant’s entrance tonight, not a single car or passerby in sight.

Out of nowhere, a group of imposing men strode out from beside the New Chesire Group’s Audi, each brandishing a rubber baton. One of

them twirled a nylon rope, his menacing smirk all too clear in the dim light.

voice shook despite her bravado as she scrambled for her phone, yelling, “Back

cops right now!”

from the restaurant with Amber’s photo in hand. His sleazy smile unmasked. “Go ahead, try it. Let’s see what’s quicker, your call or my men.”

encircling Amber and Queenie in the blink of an eye.

way or suffer the consequences‘. There’s no point in fighting now. Will you come quietly, or do I need to have you dragged?”

and knew too well what kidnapping felt like. She had pepper spray in her

run for it!”

out of harm’s way, then spun around to confront Yorick. “Yorick, I’m taking

was

could even get close, a towering bodyguard kicked out, tripping her to the ground.

worries, boss, she won’t be waking up

less if she wakes! Snap her neck, bag her up,

now that we’re alone, will you end up at the bottom of

lips

imagined Yorick could be so bold, so heartless, so

I’ll go

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