Aggresive Wife

CHAPTER 414 STAY OUT OF IT

After Madeline hung up on Noah, Albert told her that Quinn had entered a gated community. No access was allowed without a residence card.

Her conversation with Thomas jumped into Madeline’s mind, and Madeline dialed Jacob’s number to relay about the situation she had. The huge reward was an initiative for Jacob’s high efficiency as he quickly hacked into the community’s security system.

Madeline and the others could enter the neighborhood without needing the access card.

Only, Madeline kept the hired guns outside the community and entered the area with Albert so as not to raise suspicion.

Standing before a lift, Madeline gave Albert a look to see if he knew which floor they were supposed to go to. Albert nodded and went into the lift to press the button for the 25th floor.

They had secured a tracking device on Quinn, and the geo-tracker was pretty advanced as it could detect the exact location of the target.

Quinn was on the 26th floor, but they would get off on the 25th floor and take the stairs up for safety’s sake.

In between, Madeline got a blueprint of the 26th floor from Jacob. She realized Quinn was in an apartment of around three hundred square meters.

An apartment around this size in this location did not come cheap.

Through the blueprint, Madeline could be certain about one thing, and that was the perpetrator was wealthy. Did the culprit have a personal grudge against her since the motive was not money?

Once they arrived at the location, Madeline saw four men in black watching outside the residence. They were burly and armed. Facing them head-on was not the way to go.

Madeline led Albert back into the stairwell and intended to wait it out until the mastermind showed his face.

Half an hour later, an alarm went off in the building.

“It’s the fire alarm,” Albert responded.

Madeline fixated on the door. It would be great if the building was on fire. At least, it would smoke these people out.

“Ms. Grant, we must leave now.” There was a flurry of footsteps coming from upstairs. While the door was open, only the security team came out from the apartment.

The guards looked around warily and were fast approaching Madeline and Albert.

Madeline and Albert would be in a tough spot as they were outnumbered.

“There are only two of them. Take care of them, and we’ll change into their clothes to sneak in.” Madeline made a risky call.

Albert had always heeded Madeline’s commands. Although he hesitated for a moment, he did not oppose the order. He swiftly prepared himself for a fight.

It was a pity that Madeline underestimated the pair’s strength. While the ambush and advanced weapons gained Madeline and Albert the upper hand, they were quickly subdued in the face of absolute power.

The hired guns, two meters in height, forced Madeline and Albert to a corner. If that was not enough, the commotion attracted a lot of the security personnel here.

Madeline bit her lower lip in frustration, pacing herself to fight her opponents to the death. However, Albert stood before her and fended off the two hired gun’s attacks with his flesh.

“Go!” Albert shouted at Madeline.

Without hesitation, Madeline jumped out of the window. A metal hook clawed into a wall, suspending her weight in midair.

Albert’s flesh defense did not hold up for long as a guard showed up at the window not long after Madeline’s jump. The man pulled out a dagger to cut the rope.

Madeline took a quick glance around, and all she saw were bare walls. She fell into despair as there was nowhere to land.

She fixated on the dagger in the guard’s hand, praying that it was a regular knife that could not cut through her specially-made rope. She was also calculating in her mind whether she could swing to the nearby window and crash into the room before the rope was cut.

The possibility of the latter option was slim, so Madeline put her hope on the former. With enough time, she would be able to make a safe landing on the ground.

Sometimes things were not meant to be. The dagger was clearly no ordinary blade. The guard was inches away from cutting the whole rope in half.

Madeline swayed along the wind and slammed onto the wall.

She closed her eyes in despair, and as the guard was going for the final cut, she saw a familiar face behind the guard. She was delighted.

Soon, the man at the window disappeared, and Noah’s grimacing face emerged.

“Hold still. Don’t move.” Noah quickly secured a rope and slid down from the window to reach her. He deftly tied the rope around Madeline’s waist.

“Why are you here?” Madeline asked. For some reason, she could not face his chilly eyes.

Without answering Madeline, Noah pulled a long face and told his men to hoist Madeline up.

Once Madeline was back on the 26th floor, she went to check on Albert. Since Albert took quite a beating, Madeline got him sent to the hospital right away.

In the meantime, she took notice of the apartment’s opened door. The guards outside the apartment were gone. The only person next to Noah was Wayne, who had been missing in the picture for some time.

Madeline furrowed her brows in confusion. There were a few people heading her way when she jumped out of the window.