Master of his heart (Brielle and Max)

Chapter 1171

Irene stayed quiet, the blaring alarms echoing around her. She glanced down at the switchblade in her hand. The world seemed to tilt beneath her, the crashing planes exploding like fireworks in the night sky.

She wiped the blade silently, surveying the hell she had created.

Rain poured harder, making the alarms even more piercing.

She stood tall, unyielding.

Kenzo was gone, vanished without a trace. Irene, distracted for just a moment, hadn't noticed him leave.

Jaired knelt before her.

"It's my fault."

"Enough."

Irene managed a small smile, dabbing at the blood on his cheek with her fingertip, then tasting it on her lips. Salty.

"Brielle! Brielle!"

King was still searching through the chaos, but no one knew where Brielle was being held. He burst into a basement, hoping to find her there. Instead, he found a woman, wary and watchful.

King didn't get a good look at her face and quickly retreated when he realized she wasn't Brielle, throwing over his shoulder, "Get out now, or you're dead." As he slammed the basement door behind him, the roar outside grew louder.

Sarah thought she recognized him, but there wasn't time to think. She had to escape.

every room for Brielle, his

alarms grew louder, voices in several languages demanding a cease-fire, threatening indiscriminate

only then that King remembered the woman

"Mom."

called, grabbing Sarah's wrist and dragging her towards

"Take her and go!"

Sarah froze, disbelief in

Her son had no

the boy must have mistaken her for someone else, but before she

the helicopter

"Brielle! Brielle!"

King was desperate now.

heard someone calling her name, but she was too

blood wasn't

being carried, unsure of where

his other hand clutching the barely alive

"Cough, cough, cough."

Brielle coughed weakly.

momentarily but

so was Brielle, but

demanded coldly, struggling

with Myles, couldn't

from her eyes, and her pupils shrank at the

force-fed still churning incher stomach, her lips and

that thin knife was pressed to her mouth, she truly thought her tongue would