Chapter 0249

Dawn broke over Ol’ Mare, casting a soft glow on the quiet Belmont Hills neighborhood where the

Chesire family lived.

*Amber, Alex, are you serious?!” In the Chesire’s living room, Susanne, who had just dropped little

Olivia off at preschool, listened in horror to Amber’s harrowing tale of her abduction. Her face went as

white as a sheet.

“They didn’t hurt you, did they? Oh, my poor baby!” She wept uncontrollably.

“I’m fine, all thanks to Alex.”

Patrick, a cigarette dangling from his fingers, tried to steady his shaky voice. “Amber, you’ve got to be

more careful from now on. We need to beef up security. If it hadn’t been for Alex… Well…

Amber glanced at Alexander, biting her lip, her face awash with guilt.

After her last frightening experience, she had been vigilant about her safety. She blamed her own

stubborn

streak for not telling Alex and sneaking off with Acela to Lackspur County.

If only she had notified Alex, maybe none of that would have happened. The Ellis family, the Hart

family…

Those people were the worst!

“Alex.”

cigarette, Patrick finally spoke up. “You’re out of the service,

went above and

gratitude.”

“Absolutely!”

tears still in her eyes, nodded vigorously. “Even after you’ve left the military, they

to lend a hand. We owe them big time. We should take them

some nice gifts!”

voice barely above a whisper. “Alex, back on the boat, I thought I

something. They were shouting something about a Temple Lord.

that…?”

with

machines into action. I racked up quite a few commendations in my time, so the

Lord made an

them for

his

in charge. He’ll have a team

round the clock.”

Amber murmured in agreement.

come, and the head

He answered only to

the job, unless they ran into a martial arts master

Amber was

in safe hands.

from up north, aren’t they?” said Patrick,

what he

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push into the northern

on him, “And you know,

market under control, and everything’s ticking along nicely. I’m considering a trip

a hit here, and it’s bound to

not laid out any plans for expanding up north, but

and dipping our toes in the northern market doesn’t sound bad

“That settles it, then!”

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