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 man

dared not question him either, and so he yelled into the walkie-talkie to those ahead

a loud screech, the entire convoy slammed

the mines were buried. They

frown between

his feet impatiently and hollered, “Come on! Get

would be destroyed if it continued its advance. That would have set off a chain

simply stopped and did not resume its forward

in with the man in the backseat. “Why

60

off.” The man’s expression was

have been informed of it, so why would he be so leisurely as to come and shop for real estate

a bid for the property, but

frustrated Gerald’s gaze switched between the hillside mansion in front of him and the man himself. “Are we really going to walk away like this? This is a

not to be persuaded.