Chapter 222

with the downfall of the Wiley family, Jack refused to accept defeat and wanted to drag me down with him.

What a joke! That was never going to happen.

1 gritted my teeth and rushed into a nearby building. There were still people present, seemingly engaged in a meeting. When I entered, they were momentarily shocked, but when Jack burst in with a knife, everyone was left in a state of panic Screams and chaos erupted in an instant.

However, his focus was sharp-he was solely fixated on chasing me. After running for so long, I felt fatigue beginning to set in, especially when I finally stopped for a moment.

"Wretched girl, you should go down with the Wiley Group!" jack raved madly, clearly intent on dlling me.

As he lunged at me with the knife, I was about to run again when, suddenly, there was a loud crasti-he had been struck in the back by a chair. Stumbling, he instinctively swung the knife backward.

I watched in horror as the fruit knife sliced through the backof someone's hand. I looked up and was startled to see who it was

Ethent

he doing

my head, not wanting

strong young men from the meeting stepped forward to

him, should I express surprise that

inhaled sharply. His reaction snapped me back

my voice steady. After all, I was the one being clased;

the hospital to

The doctor examined Ethan's wound and paused, asling. "What happened? This

injured by a

doctor nodded. "That's nothing serious. Just needs some medication and a bandage. Keep it dry until it

simple? I looked skeptically at both

my doubt. "The wound isn't deep; it only broke the surface, and it just oozed a bit of blood.

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all. In fact, there wasn't much

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