“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 nodded

and could not help doing

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

were there the police, but the men he had asked Robert to send and protect Cordelia were

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

went to the rooftop through a quiet passage. As

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

suddenly heard soft cries for

it?”

lying there in blood. He had a man with him who was slightly injured. His underling was ready to risk his life and battle with Zephyr the moment he

grabbed the man’s wrist and hit his dagger

back!” growled

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

“What happened?”

lips while he bled from

send you to

the hotel, and those men

Zephyr’s

old gang’s boss. They want to kill

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

His

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

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