I am highly acquainted with this gesture from having witnessed it many times. Abe was reaching for his gun.

I glanced toward Ashton in desperation. He seemed to be looking for someone. His haughty expression kept people from approaching him.

“Mr. Abe, you…”

“Shut up!” He glared at me.

I was frightened into silence. Why is Ashton here? I thought. What is he doing here?

Was he looking for me?

No one would know about my disappearance from the country if Savini did not speak. Even if he did know and was out to look for me, how did he end up here?

Query after query raced through my mind, but the most pressing one was Abe’s intentions towards Ashton.

Abe grabbed my wrist and brought my attention back to the present. I was here as bait.

“Don’t startle him,” Abe muttered into his earpiece. “Let’s see how many men he has with him.”

After giving the order, he was dragging me along toward Ashton’s table.

“Mr. Fuller, what a coincidence!” he said with feigned surprise.

We locked eyes. I was at a loss for words with the sudden twist of events.

Joseph looked as stunned as I felt. For as long as I’ve known him, I have never seen him like this before. His eyes widened in shock at the sight of me.

as I leaned forward to

in an instant. “I’m well, how do you

Ashton said, with an inscrutably calm

stable aura that hid an unpredictable nature, while

I meekly next to Abe. I began to

intended

me along was to use me as a human shield

Abe have

Abe

within his rugged brows. Traveling to this part of the world had taken its toll on

Abe, why don’t you introduce the lady?” Ashton said with a casually unrecognizing glance

Abe leered

interested in

glance at Joseph, who placed the black briefcase on the

want to

“Mr. Fuller and I are old friends. I trust that the goods are

to me and gave me a

Dante had told me to seize the briefcase at

a fraction of a second and reached out to

slammed down on top of

allow us to inspect the goods in return, shouldn’t he?” Ashton said as he loosened his grasp on my hand but did not let go,

the verge of panicking and tried to

always cautious.”

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