Chapter 161 “Look out!”

Elizabeth moved like a storm unleashed, shoving Elijah aside and stepping in front of him.

Asher’s fist, despite his attempt to pull back, carried the unstoppable momentum of a runaway train.

It struck Elizabeth square on the shoulder, her bare skin reddening instantly from the impact.

Asher froze, his arm still extended, the reality of his mistake sinking in.

“Elizabeth… are you okay?”

“What the hell were you thinking?!” Elijah’s voice cracked like a whip, fury blazing in his eyes as he took in the swelling bruise on Elizabeth’s shoulder.

His glare fixed on Asher, as cold and sharp as frostbite.

The air between them crackled with tension.

With deliberate carelessness, Elijah shrugged off his expensive suit jacket, letting it fall to the ground like discarded paper.

It was a gesture of disdain, a warning bell tolling for trouble.

Elizabeth felt her stomach drop.

Elijah getting angry—it was

this side of him before, and it wasn’t something easily

flashed through her mind like a reel of

on their way to dinner when they passed a private

man had slurred something lewd about Sandra, an insult that Elijah couldn’t

word, Elijah had walked into the

collar and unleashed a fury of punches, each one landing with a sickening

intervene, Elijah was unmoved, his rage

the man was a crumpled heap on the

one final, brutal kick before straightening

it was like trying to stop a hurricane with a

the end, she’d stationed herself at the door, keeping watch to

over, she had stepped in front of Elijah not out of protection for

of that man’s bloodied face

against the searing pain in her shoulder and grabbed Elijah’s arm, her fingers

on

she had shielded him, putting herself in harm’s way, and it had struck a chord

intercede on Asher’s behalf made

same

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