“You’re Ian?” he asked the underling in a deep tone.

Ian jumped and stared at him dumbly.

“Help me drag your boss back if you don’t want anything to happen to him. I know a way that won’t attract attention!”

The police and crowd gradually dispersed from the hallway, and everything went back to peace.

Cordelia was still worried when a thud sounded at the door before the sound of the keycard accessing it was heard.

She was alarmed but quickly pulled the safety latch open, knowing that it was her husband. However, the scene that greeted her nearly made her scream!

Zephyr carried Nicholas in and put him on the bed swiftly. He then tore the sheets to bandage him so the bleeding could be stopped for the time being.

Cordelia’s limbs went weak as beads of cold sweat drenched her. She shook and could not make a word.

“Honey…”

“I can’t explain too much now,” Zephyr said barely above a whisper. “He’s severely injured. He needs to go to the hospital!”

“But how are we sending him there?” Cordelia recalled the hotel manager mentioning some gangs just now and could more or less guess it connecting the dots to Nicholas’ identity.

“Darling, we can’t call an ambulance, but if we want to get him out… It’s not quite peaceful out there, is it?”

eyes with

was stunned as well and could not help doing a double take at

and went to her side to say softly, “The police’s

hallway. Not only were there the police, but the men he had asked Robert to send and protect

and asked him to be careful. She checked the lock

crowd and went to the rooftop through a quiet passage. As expected, he

were not consistent, so he slowed his pace and kept his guard up

soft

it?”

moving around the nearby shielded area. He chased after it and was surprised to discover Nicholas lying there in blood. He had a man

wrist and hit his dagger

come back!”

his distance. His gaze was

“What happened?”

his lips while he

send

it right away. “There’s police in the hotel, and those men must be lurking outside the hotel! Going out now is akin to committing

men?” Zephyr’s gaze

from the old gang’s boss. They want to

but they

on the brink of death on the floor. His face was growing pale

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