You Hit My Heart by Kylie Stanford

Chapter 2085: Joining Forces

Joyce continued to rest with her eyes closed as time slowly passed. Clint took out the satellite communicator, but there was still no signal. He discarded it since it was now useless. Dawn seemed a long way off.

Meanwhile, Luther and Darrin had already joined the main forces of the Imperial Household Agency. Although they couldn't communicate, they had prearranged a rendezvous point before the mission. The Yoshikawa family's guards were temporarily suppressed, with many captured alive, but they couldn't locate the snipers or determine their numbers. They had to proceed cautiously and avoid large-scale movements.

When Darrin saw Grizela return with her team, he was surprised. "You're back. Where's the young marshal?"

"I'm looking for her too. We got separated in the thick smoke. I thought she was near me because I kept hearing her gunshots, but later I realized she wasn't behind me," Grizela said, feeling guilty. "I'm sorry, we didn't complete the mission or find the young marshal."

Luther feared this would happen and felt a splitting headache. "She has a poor sense of direction. Which way did she likely go?"

Grizela thought for a moment. "If she didn't go with us, she might have headed east."

"The east leads to the cliff top," Reuben said as he emerged from his guards. "It's a dead end, a cliff. We should send people to support her immediately."

Seeing Reuben and hearing his familiar voice, Grizela was startled and knelt down excitedly. "Your Highness, you're safe! I thought I'd never see you again."

"Stand up and speak; the ground is full of stones," Reuben said as he quickly helped Grizela up. "I'm fine."

Grizela nodded.

Darrin added, "She almost committed seppuku thinking you were in grave danger, but I stopped her in time."

Reuben was taken aback and scolded, "How could you think of doing something so foolish? Even if something happened to me, I want you all to be safe. My plan included sending you away; you shouldn't stay here."

I will follow you for life. If you stay, I stay; if you leave, I leave," Grizela said with teary

"Thank you for stopping her. It was my mistake not to inform her

a Yoshikawa family guard who misled us into thinking Your Highness went southwest. So we sent the young marshal and Grizela to support that direction. We didn't expect to find Your Highness instead. If the young marshal

buy us some time

Darrin nodded.

news and came to discuss it with Luther. "A group has arrived; they're from the Crown Prince's side. It seems he sent out a message before communications were cut off.

joining forces will help us quickly eliminate the Yoshikawa family's men,"

we subdue them, the Crown Prince's men turn on us?" Grizela warned cautiously. "I

"We can't think like that now. Joyce is likely with Clint; we must do everything to rescue her. Clint must also be safe; otherwise, Joyce will be blamed along with

Highness," Grizela replied but remained

our common

and acted

news as gunfire echoed from near to far and gradually

Joyce's whereabouts were unknown,

About two hours later.

with an

we've controlled

guards. Clint's team

the eastern cliff top behind large rocks-one of them has excellent marksmanship, making it

firepower suppression. I sushee

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recognize each other or have any contact and won't retreat until their mission is complete. They carry no communicators; even if we restore communication, we can't call off their mission. We don't know their hiding spots either; using drones to search

Clint and they were now hiding on the mountaintop surrounded by unknown