The Phantom Heiress Rising From The Shadows

Chapter 533:

The mercenaries were not stupid. They weren’t planning on walking away alive. Their job was to stall for time. Every second they stood there was one more second for Jade to get farther away.

The leader jabbed his gun toward the backpack and threatened, “One more word, and I’ll shoot the kid!”

Brenna’s earpiece crackled with another update from the military. “No signs of life detected in the bag. No signs of life detected. Prepare for extraction.”

“Open it!” Brenna said. In her mind, Patrick was already gone. Tears poured down her face, blurring her vision. She lunged forward, kicked the nearest mercenary to the ground, and with one swift motion, snapped his neck.

The others froze, stunned. None of them had expected her to be that lethal. Her movements were clean. That kind of precision only came from real training.

Gunfire split the air again. From above, sniper rounds tore through the deck, and mercenaries dropped one after another.

and yanked her with him. They then dashed to the edge of the deck and dove into the sea. From the air, the

remaining mercenary had a sniper’s crosshair locked on them.

of automatic fire erupted from above. The rest of the mercenaries didn’t stand a chance. One by one, they fell, gunned down

back onto the yacht, the military had already unzipped the backpack. It was filled with nothing

and she nearly fell. Her chest rose and fell unevenly, and she clutched at the

here, where could he be?” The backpack did not contain Patrick’s dead body, but that didn’t ease Brenna

gⲁ𝗅𝓝𝗈ν𝖊𝗅𝘀.𝗰0𝗺´ 𝘾𝒽𝓮𝒸𝓀 𝒶𝓾𝓉𝒽 𝓬𝓸𝓹𝓎

Patrick hurt? Was

out across the deck, snapping the team into

the deck. A moment later,

a few others closed in around one of

with what little strength he had left, he raised a shaking hand and pointed toward the sea. “We threw him into