Chapter 992 It all happened so suddenly that no one had the time to react.

There was a sizzling sound coming from that glass bottle. Stella‘s eyes widened

At that critical moment, she had a hunch that the liquid inside the bottle was acid!

She could only watch as the liquid was hurled toward her. There was no way that she could escape it now. The man was obviously aiming it at her. The last thing she saw before she could react was seeing the liquid coming at her head–on.

“Aaaah!” a piercing scream rang through the hall

The whole table was turned into chaos.

Everyone there could only watch as it happened in front of their eyes. None of them moved or reacted.

Just as Stella had lost all hope, a tall figure cropped up by her side

Without the least hesitation, Weston grabbed Stella’s shoulders and turned her around, locking her in his arms.

– The pain that Stella expected to feel never came...

her eyes tight, but

Then she felt his grip around her shoulders suddenly tensing up. He had

rapid heartbeats, so rapid it

whole place became eerily silent. All the surrounding noises vanished instantly as if someone had pressed the “mute” button. Stella could only feel the force of Weston‘s embrace

come to their senses before

“Quick! Grab him!”

around

he noticed that the acid had missed Stella and had landed on Weston‘s back instead. But he came back to his senses in no time. Then, seeing Weston securely guarding Stella , he tried to pull something else out of his sleeves. “You evil wench!” he yelled in a voice filled with spite. “I will never let you run free! You will pay!

and rummaged through his body. After a thorough search, they found a dagger and a

are you hiding?

man on the back. The man

strength. “I said speak!” Ben grabbed a fistful of the man‘s hair to raise his head before slapping him across his face.

shook his head, wincing in pain. “I‘ve

pretended he didn‘t see or hear anything and slapped him hard

you have any other accomplices?!” he

his head, stared directly at Ben, and spat another mouthful of blood. Then he

have accomplices...” he

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