Secret Admiration: Finding True Love After Prison

Chapter 702 Bring Him to Her Place

Andy curled up in a pile of rubble in the corner. Blood covered him, staining his pale skin, which now looked almost translucent.

He had just escaped from an abandoned factory, planning to return to his hideout. But when he arrived, he realized someone in his crew must have betrayed him. Police officers were stationed nearby.

To avoid raising suspicion, Andy left quietly, though he was already nursing a gunshot wound from Daniel and a blow to the back of his head. His head throbbed like it might split open, leaving him dizzy and disoriented.

The night was deep, and with nowhere to go, Andy had no choice but to stay here and wait for dawn, curling up to make himself as inconspicuous as possible. But the growing fever clouding his mind made that increasingly difficult. At some point, he wasn't sure when a pool of blood had formed beneath him. When their eyes met, Emilia immediately felt the tension in Andy's glare-a cold, sharp warning. She thought, "Is it because he noticed my earlier actions?" A streetlight behind her cast a long shadow that stretched toward him, overlapping with his in the dim alleyway. In the brief seconds it took for her to regain her composure, Emilia put on an innocent face and approached him.

Chapter 702 Bring Him to Her Place "What happened to you?" She tried to sound like a clueless passerby. "Are you hurt? I'll call an ambulance."

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As she pulled out her phone, Andy snatched it from her grasp before she could hit call. His piercing eyes were full of caution. Without hesitation, he threw her phone several yards away, where it smashed against the ground. Even from a distance, Emilia could see the shattered screen.

"Hey!" she snapped, glaring at him. "You don't have to thank me, but did you really need to destroy my phone?" She stormed over to pick it up, confirming her suspicion-the screen was completely ruined.

Emilia wasn't surprised by his reaction. Men like him-fugitives with nothing to lose-trusted no one, especially when they were injured and vulnerable.

man had extorted millions of dollars from the Clarke family during her kidnapping. Watching him

karmic retribution.

had been tracking him, not only to reclaim the Clarke family's

that his network ran deep. If they failed to take him down in one strike, the Clarke family might face dangerous retaliation. Glancing at the police

they must have raided his temporary

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ready to leave, angry at the situation, but paused mid-step. She thought, "With his hideout compromised, he and his gang would likely relocate by tomorrow. If I lost him now,

at her return. His eyes remained cold, but she was used to that

always buying cigarettes from the convenience store. I'll give you a discount-48 hundred dollars, not a penny

and chilling, yet inexplicably captivating. "You've got some nerve asking me for money. Do you even know who I am?" Emilia froze for a moment but quickly recovered. "Does it matter? From the looks of it, you can afford cigarettes, so you'd better not stiff me. Or how about you give me your phone, and I'll smash it too? Then we're even." For reasons she couldn't fathom, her words made Andy laugh softly. Emilia thought, "Good. I need to

Him to Her Place

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live wire. "You're burning up. You've got a fever," she said, glancing at his bloodstained clothes. The dim lighting and his gray jacket made it hard to tell where he was hurt, but the metallic tang

When he told her not to go to the

took him to a small, secondhand apartment she'd purchased nearby for convenience

him after tonight?" Once inside, with the lights on, Emilia finally saw the extent of his injuries. A gunshot wound to his shoulder, though the bullet seemed to have