Villain On the video call, three burly figures appeared, their faces shrouded in hoods.
Lauren was kneeling on the ground, and her face was shoved toward the phone by one of the men.
Her face, neck, and body were covered in blood.
Moreover, her lips were cracked, and her eyes were so swollen she could hardly keep them open.
She looked utterly defeated.
In a hoarse and feeble voice, Lauren sobbed.
"Mitchel...
Help me...
Please...
Remember that time I saved you? Help me now...” Bringing up old scores was the most effective way to change one's mind.
Sure enough, Mitchel's expression shifted in an instant.
Smack! One of the hooded men slapped Lauren across the face and snarled, "Enough of your nonsense." It was clear Lauren had been suffering for a while.
The slap forced a mouthful of blood out of her, making her look even more miserable.
Mitchel's expression flipped like a switch.
With his eyes turned as cold as a glacier, he bellowed, "How dare you!” The hooded man chuckled as if he had heard a joke.
His laughter was distorted by a voice changer, which made it sound even more unsettling.
"This woman says you're her husband and that you're loaded.
Is that right?” An unsettling silence fell over both parties.
Raegan impulsively grabbed Mitchel's arm.
She was not quite sure what she was thinking, but something deep down told her he should not admit it.
Mitchel's face turned grim, and he focused on the screen.
hooded leader delivered a brutal
and her
The hooded man lifted his
at that critical moment, Mitchel
truth.” Raegan felt
loosened her grip on Mitchel's arm, but he did not
completely on the
hooded man stopped what he was doing and
ten million dollars in cash and bring it to
nicked Lauren's wrist, enough for blood
would not die on the spot, but
the hooded guy sneered
Silence enveloped the car.
Raegan with a serious
been so kind to Raegan recently that he thought she could understand him if
Raegan cut
go." It was not that Raegan was
better to send a professional to handle this
told her there was more than
the police and have them sort this
shot down
can't involve
at stake." Those outlaws had no
not gamble with
would pay off his debt, as long as Lauren arrived in
siding with Lauren, a bitter
this whole thing might be staged?” Raegan
grimmer, and he asked, "What are you getting at?”
the video, Lauren's shoes
and held in some rundown warehouse, how could her shoes be so clean?" Unlike Mitchel,
amount of blood Lauren spat
the ransom was her husband or not?" There could be only one answer to
was orchestrating
aware that she was listening, thus using
of the puzzle were falling
the feeling that
about it, the more
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