Her Biliionaire Husband

Chapter 899 Taking Things Slowly

“What’s the matter?” asked Xavier as he approached her, sensing her strange behavior. While her head was lowered as she observed her surroundings, Veronica answered, “It’s nothing.”

“Did someone try to kill you?” Despite her efforts to hide the truth, he had guessed the answer just from studying her expression.

Knowing she could not hide the truth from him anymore, she nodded without speaking as she observed the footsteps on the ground, wanting to find clues from the traces left behind.

Xavier went inside the tent and felt his heart skip when he saw the two stab marks. At that moment, his anger for Matthew surged, but he knew that no matter what the situation was, he did not want to see Veronica get hurt.

When he came out of her tent, he saw a few people coming toward them and whispered a reminder, “They’re back. It’s better if they didn’t know what happened last night.”

“Alright.” She nodded and stood up straight before looking toward Nelson’s tent. Narrowing her eyes, she fell into deep thought.

“We found a few wild bird eggs. Xavier, Miss Murphy, you guys get some water boiling so we can cook them,” Liam ordered.

to cook without

joked with Liam, “There’s no pot of any sort in our mighty backpack.” Then, she pointed at the eggs

limited resources, it

with her,”

Zac spoke in disdain, “We aren’t in a hurry to head up to the mountain, so why make things difficult for ourselves? It’s still quite early. We should slow down our pace. After all, isn’t there a saying that those who covet

their target animal, so would it not be better if they let the other groups see the animal and fight amongst themselves for it? Then, they would be able to take advantage

plan sounds nice.”

with

competitors, we don’t need to be in

is right.”

Veronica did not say anything else. She turned around and looked toward the mountain’s peak in the distance, feeling nervous. We’ve agreed that we would look for each other after entering the mountain, but now, Zac and the others want to slow down our pace and even stay in the same spot. That means Matthew and I will not be able to meet up. It

thinking of that, she glanced

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