A Beauty With Multiple Masks

No more cat-and-mouse games. This time, he would face down Vinson in a duel to the death, for his thirst for vengeance could only slake through his own hands!

The phone in the man’s pocket started to ring in an untimely manner.

He meant to pull it out and reject the call but found cause for pause when he saw that the call came from Chanaea. Nevertheless, he answered.

The party on the other end of the line hailed him before continuing, “I’ve just received word from those useless fools. Arielle is alive!”

“Arielle who?” The name mentioned eluded the man and did not register with him.

The caller grew audibly upset. “That’s the woman who infiltrated our systems and forced us to abandon the whole island!”

The man’s eyes froze over for a moment. “How?”

On the other end, the caller said briskly, “We’ve already rigged several explosives on the cruise she was on, but the vessel did not blow up when we pulled out! When I sent someone up to investigate, we discovered that the wires had been cut!”.

By this point, the lead vehicle of the convoy was a mere two meters from the fork in the road.

the

either, and so he yelled into the walkie-talkie to those

a loud screech, the entire convoy slammed on the

the cars were from where the mines were buried. They were less than half a meter

frown between his

tapped his feet impatiently and hollered, “Come on! Get moving,

continued its advance. That would have set off a chain reaction which would have taken out the

was miffed that the car simply stopped and

the man in the backseat.

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off.” The man’s expression

must already have been informed of it, so why would he be so leisurely as to come and shop

the man said, “This isn’t a bid for the property, but an attempt on our lives! We

the man himself. “Are we really going to walk away like

not to be