“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 her and nodded

not help

paused and went to her side to say softly, “The police’s outside right now. It’s safe. Stay here. I’ll be back very

were there the police, but the

checked the lock carefully

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

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

soft

it?” Zephyr was

in blood. He had a man with him who was slightly

man’s wrist and hit

come back!”

His gaze was deep and cold

“What happened?”

licked his lips while he

about it. “I’ll send you

in the hotel, and those men must

Zephyr’s

panted. “Those guys from the old gang’s boss. They want to

night, but they didn’t keep their word. We got tricked the moment we came!

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

to target Marcus—not him. Books Chapters Are

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