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.”

a long drag on his cigarette, Patrick finally spoke up. “You’re out of

old squad? They went above

gratitude.”

“Absolutely!”

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

time. We should take them out to dinner, maybe pick

some nice gifts!”

above a

shouting something. They were shouting something about

that…?”

War, Temple Lord,” Alexander corrected with a smile.

quite a few

Lord made an

sending them for

gears, his tone turning serious. “Amber, we’re stepping

I’m putting Ray in charge. He’ll have a

round the clock.”

Amber murmured in agreement.

man, tough as they come, and the head honcho of New Chesire

answered only to Alexander and

job, unless they ran into a martial arts master

Amber was

in safe hands.

from up north,

what he

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could push into the northern

thought dawning on him, “And

along nicely. I’m

‘One Life’ product is a hit here,

plans for expanding up north, but Alexander gently broke the

toes in the

“That settles it, then!”

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