Unveiled: The Survivor's Triumph

Chapter 178 I Want Your Woman

In the distance, I saw a familiar figure slowly making his way over.

"Faris!"

The group that had been chatting and laughing earlier all stood up one by one.

The moonlight was pretty dim tonight, so I couldn't really make out Faris's expression. All I could see was the red glow from the cigarette in his mouth.

He stopped in front of them and pointed at each one with his finger.

Without a word, they all looked a bit scared.

Then, Faris shoved his hands in his pockets and walked towards us.

"Faris, what brings you here?" The guy with the crew cut grinned nervously at him.

Faris walked up and, without a word, gave him a hard kick.

The guy didn't dare fight back, not even making a sound.

"Who told you to act on your own?" Faris took the cigarette out of his mouth and asked coldly.

None of them dared to speak. Finally, the crew-cut guy, who had just been kicked, cautiously explained, "Faris, we all know Ethan did it. You've been busy, and with your grandma passing, we know you're not feeling great, so we decided to help you get revenge. We've already investigated. These two women, one is his wife and the other is said to be his mistress. To be safe, we brought both of them here. One of them must be important to him."

Faris suddenly threw down his cigarette and kicked him several more times.

The crew-cut guy kept retreating while being beaten, begging for mercy. "Faris, please, I was wrong."

He backed into the group of men, who also stepped back, afraid of getting involved.

Faris kicked over a beer bottle on the ground, making a loud clanging noise.

One of the men wanted to step forward to clean up the scattered beer bottles, but Faris suddenly picked up a bottle and smashed it against a rock.

The man who had just bent down was so scared he fell to the ground.

Faris picked up beer bottles one after another, smashing both the full and empty ones to pieces. Beer foam and glass shards flew everywhere, and the continuous smashing sounds were deafening. The men didn't dare get close or retreat too far. They stood at a distance, heads lowered, letting the shards splash on them.

Finally, when there were no more bottles to smash and he had vented enough, Faris bent slightly forward, his shoulders rising and falling slowly and heavily.

For some reason, I felt that this frenzied figure was filled with sadness.

The crew-cut guy mentioned Faris's grandma's passing. Was he talking about Cindy?

But I remember the last time Faris took me to see her, she looked so lively and healthy. On New Year's Eve, he even invited me to have a reunion dinner with her. How could this be? Faris stood there for what felt like forever, like he had no energy left to move.

After a bit, the crew-cut guy finally got the guts to step forward and cautiously said, "Faris, if you think it's not right, we can just send them back."

"Send them back, my ass!" Faris snapped.

guy looked confused, then heard Faris say, "Call

heart skipped

got it. He forgot about the beating he just took and nodded excitedly. "Alright, I'll call

quickly pulled out his

Remember, alone. Don't try

on the phone, but the crew-cut guy snorted. "Money? Faris doesn't need

crew-cut guy gave the address

around and we

feel the cold radiating from him, colder than the

want my eyes to give away too much-helplessness, fear,

looked away, staring into the

you could see far, but everything was

like a massive black hole, slowly sucking away hope, leaving

want Ethan to show up. Even if I'd be disappointed if he didn't, even if I might end up at the bottom of the cliff, I didn't

only could I not help Ethan, but I always ended up being

looked back from the distant horizon, Faris was already sitting on a

rock was right at the cliff's edge, like it could tumble

calmly, seemingly unaware of

the

time, he didn't even smoke; he just let the cigarette burn to the

another with the nearly burnt-out butt, then

freezing up on the cliff. I shivered a few times, and

sat on the rock against the wind, seemingly

or stood,

faintly heard the sound of an engine. This faint noise heightened all my

was coming up.

cut through the darkness on the mountaintop. That car, which I knew so well,

figure get out of

appear, she made excited, muffled

he's here," the

he

first. Then he walked towards me with firm,

he was about 10 feet away from me, a skinny

pretty fast," the skinny guy

the point.

came from nearby, and Faris

woman," he said, trying to sound

men seemed encouraged, and their

us with lecherous grins, one heading towards Faye,

man grabbed my chin, forcing

or we'll

expression stayed the same. He remained calm

a rage, throwing the half-smoked cigarette at Ethan's

you owe the

Ethan remained calm. "I

a thick