Rising from the Ashes BY Only For You

"Andrew, wait... is someone trying to kill you?" Freya's face turned ghostly pale, and her voice was shaky. She could barely get the words out.

Andrew let her go and frowned. "You need to lose weight, Ms. Freya."

Freya flared up. "Excuse me? Are you saying there's something wrong with my figure?"

Andrew replied flatly, "It's not about looks. It's about the weight. If it had been someone else, they wouldn't have been able to carry you and run. They'd be dead already."

Freya was livid. "You-"

Andrew ignored her. He quickly headed down the fire escape with Freya in tow, pulling her into the shadows near the stairwell exit.

From below, a series of whooshing sounds suddenly echoed upward. It sounded like something was moving at high speed through the air.

Freya looked absolutely terrified and deeply unsettled. Meanwhile, Andrew remained expressionless, and when the wind pressure reached his ears at maximum intensity, he simply kicked out into thin air.

A dull thud rang out, and the wind pressure abruptly stopped.

off guard, a dark figure let out a muffled grunt and slammed into the narrow stairway wall. The concrete wall immediately cracked with a

crap, this construction quality is total garbage! They're charging me over a million a month for

a headache coming on. He could not help but think Freya was

she seriously think the wall cracked because it was poorly built? No. That damage came from the sheer

kicked?

black trench coat with the collar turned up, the man looked plain and unremarkable, but he was nearly

the concrete wall was like an ordinary person bumping into a sponge-it didn't faze

I underestimated you. You actually caught me

until it blurred like a

screamed, "It's

after just two steps, she slammed face-first into the metal emergency door at the stairwell,

raised his arm, blocked the assassin's strike, and drove his knee up in a brutal uppercut

and leapt back, dodging the blow. Then, he swung his blade

in such a confined space, it was easy to imagine how

advantage in close-quarters killing