“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?”

met eyes with her

and could not help doing a double

paused and went to her side to say softly, “The police’s outside right now. It’s

lot of people in the hallway. Not only were there the police, but the men

to be careful. She checked the

interior. He easily avoided the crowd and went to the rooftop through

not consistent, so he slowed his pace and kept his guard up on the surrounding area as his hand crept to the pistol at his

soft cries

it?”

to discover Nicholas lying there in blood. He had a man with him who was slightly injured.

man’s wrist

come back!” growled

his distance. His gaze was deep and cold with

“What happened?”

licked his lips while

“I’ll send you

named Ian rejected it right away. “There’s police in the hotel, and those men must

men?” Zephyr’s gaze

old gang’s boss. They want

N to come here today for a negotiation last night, but they didn’t keep their word. We got tricked the

the brink of death on the floor. His face was

had some beef with Nicholas, the latter used to target Marcus—not him.

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