Chapter 501 I Wouldn’t Have Hurt if You’d Died

Soon after they left, the venue returned to order. In this race against time to get rich, the audience preferred to ignore the incident in favor of devoting themselves to the cause.

When she noticed Kenneth’s hand inadvertently holding his wound, Elise said before she could think too much about it, “Thank you.”

In response, he only looked at her affectionately without saying anything.

What she didn’t know was that he was absolutely entranced with the way she used his power to take Ziggy down a peg.

Surely it wouldn’t take long before she completely got used to it and relied on this identity of his.

The pain of Kenneth’s wound was nothing in comparison to the feeling of being relied upon by her.

It wasn’t until Elise realized something was strange and looked up at him that he quickly averted his gaze. Clearing his throat, he changed the topic and asked, “How did you know I came to exterminate the Eagle Gang?”

Stunned, she pulled back.

No… She’d only been blathering nonsense. It couldn’t be true.

“You really exterminated the entire gang?” Elise murmured tentatively.

Hearing that, Kenneth frowned.

From her question, it seemed she hadn’t known about this matter, and yet…

Seeing through his thoughts, she offered up an explanation. “I only said all of that to scare Ziggy and to let him know that there were others better than him and not to be so brazen. I didn’t know Eagle Gang was truly gone… Is this why you got so badly injured yesterday?”

Kenneth hummed in response. Having already let things slip, he had no choice but to confirm her suspicions.

After a moment of thought, she continued, “Did you do it single-handedly?”

“How else?”

that was the reason you came to Dukethorn? Did Smith Co. and the Eagle Gang have irreconcilable

he simply stared

herself didn’t know why she was suddenly so interested in his business, either, but with no way to take back what she just said, she could only wait silently for his

Wasn’t it worth her time to get to the bottom of

he happened to be Kenneth Bailey and not because he was Kenneth

looking suddenly like a docile and loyal hound as he spoke slowly and softly. “You were attacked by the people from that gang. I was afraid someone would come after you if I didn’t take care of them all. Clearing them out once and for all gives me

Thud thud thud…

like that, Elise felt

found that she had lost all ability to speak or express herself. There wasn’t anything she could say

tone icy, she muttered, “Don’t humor yourself by doing these things. I already have people I would give up my life for. If you’d died at the Eagle Gang’s haunt yesterday, I wouldn’t have felt hurt in the least

she spun on

far, Kenneth followed after her and caught her

had been electrocuted, and she shrugged him off in terror. “Don’t touch

his hands in surrender. “I have no ill intentions. I only wanted to say that your bet with Ziggy doesn’t have

implying?” Her breathing was

to lean

was when she caught

readjusting her state of mind could she say as

“I’m worried—”

 

say such things anymore.” Elise didn’t wait for him to reply before continuing, “I don’t care who you worry about, but I don’t need you to worry about me. Moreover, I never do anything that I have no confidence in, so just you wait and see. Once I get

“I don’t need that.”

want it or not!” she snapped forcefully. “It’s the only thing I

would never tolerate or accept having feelings for someone other than Alexander

this sentence, she left the lounge and

of stone. After getting them registered, the

on a minute, Miss Sinclair…” She came up to Elise right as the latter stopped in her tracks and turned back. “I said I would thank you today. Will you have lunch with

on Tom. In an instant, her smile became somewhat unnatural, and her hand that was clutching the strap of her purse subconsciously tightened as her eyes darted

to decide as she murmured, “We can find a quiet restaurant with relatively few people in

the host station to get a

remind him, “You’re

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