“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

well and could not help doing a double take

say softly, “The police’s outside right now. It’s safe. Stay here. I’ll be back

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

to be careful. She checked the lock carefully after he left and

was familiar with the hotel’s interior. He easily avoided the crowd and went to the rooftop through a quiet passage. As expected,

his pace and kept his guard up on the surrounding area as his hand crept to the pistol

soft cries for

is it?”

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

grabbed the man’s wrist and

back!” growled

to him, keeping his distance. His gaze was deep and cold with a

“What happened?”

while

send you to

those men must be lurking outside the

men?” Zephyr’s gaze

guys from the old gang’s boss.

a negotiation last night, but they didn’t

brink of death on the floor. His face was growing pale from how much blood he

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

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