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.

Brenna. But Ethan had prepared for that. He caught Brenna by the wrist and yanked her with him. They then dashed to the edge of the deck and dove into the sea. From the air, the military

crosshair locked on them. One wrong move,

and Ethan hit the water. Seconds later, the sound of automatic fire erupted from above. The rest of the mercenaries didn’t stand a

military had already unzipped the backpack. It was

Her chest rose and fell unevenly, and she clutched at the railing for

where could he be?” The backpack did not contain Patrick’s dead body, but that didn’t ease Brenna completely. The unknown clawed at her. Dread settled deep

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with fear. Was Patrick hurt? Was

rang out across the deck, snapping the

the deck. A moment later, they found two mercenaries who were

and a few others closed in around one of them. Jayceon demanded, “Where’s

what little strength