She Took The House The Car And My Heart

Chapter 657:

As her vision cleared, Freya’s eyes darted across the scene.

Armed guards stood stationed nearby, and she quickly scanned her surroundings.

Only then did it hit her.

The entire island was crawling with Brendan’s guards in black.

A chilling thought seized her.

Her friends must not come.

Brendan had deployed so many men across the island that even if her friends showed up, it wouldn’t make a damn bit of difference.

A small handful of them couldn’t possibly take on hundreds of armed guards without being noticed. And knowing Brendan—how he snapped at the slightest…

Loss—if he so much as saw one man go down, he’d strike back without hesitation. Freya couldn’t risk that. The fallout would be far too great.

out the tiny micro-tracker

it into her mouth, bit

crushing it by hand, no smashing it on the rocks—it was too delicate. Any attempt to destroy it openly would only alert Brendan. This was the only safe

a car beside a

of reviewing precautions when

his watch—the

“Captain… why is

when they entered a zone with jammers, but Mina’s was supposed to be advanced.

𝓡𝓮𝓪𝓭 𝓿𝓮𝓻𝓲𝓯𝓲𝓮𝓭 𝓯𝓻𝓸𝓶 gⲁ𝗅𝗇𝗈ν𝖊𝗅𝘀⸳𝓬𝓸𝓶

Ellis ordered without a hint of

and staying calm

the team hesitated. “Why?”

too risky. Wait in Alerith.” Ellis’s

Freya wasn’t reckless.

tracker unless she believed

girl. Without the signal, how could