Freya was sprawled in a pool of blood five minutes later.

Monkey stood nearby and glanced at her. “Mr. Strategist, should we proceed?”

Jamie rose, strolled to Freya with his phone, and began to record the scene.

He held his phone in one hand to capture the gruesome sight while brandishing a pen in his other hand. Then, a sinister smile played on his lips.

The pen’s tip traced a path from her face to her shoulder blade before he violently plunged it down.

A pained groan escaped her lips.

His gaze lingered on her, sprawled in the pool of blood, and her back marred by the lashings from Monkey’s whip.

“Freya, I’lFetch a constellation onto your face with this pen if you ever entertain the thought of escaping again,” he threatened.

She turned her face to the side, her complexion pale, and her jet-black hair tips immersed in the blood on the floor.

Jamie found the sight before him both beautiful and heart-wrenching.

Then, he reached out while caressing her face.

In the next instant, Freya bit him hard.

He quickly pulled back his hand and said, “That really pricked my hand.”

“You crazy pervert!” She spat out while coughing and cursing.

He ceased recording, showed her the video, and forwarded it to Radley’s number..

She glared at him, and her eyes ablaze with hatred.

“Your little lover has been quite a nuisance lately. If he continues to make my life difficult, I’ll ensure his life isn’t a bed of roses either.”

He held her head with one hand, immobilizing her, and gently patted her face with the other.

“Edward mustn’t know, do you understand?”

expression hardened as he noticed her silence. “You won’t be seeing Maddox tomorrow. And if you let Edward in on this, you

widened in shock. “Jamie, this

a medical professor? Someone else will have

won’t treat Edward anymore if you harm Maddox!” she yelled.

I find that hard to believe.”

still had Lucius

back. As for the wounds, let her tend to them herself.”

the ground and carried her

wound, and Monkey tossed

and she found a first aid kit

and applied the ointment.

so she smeared the ointment onto a bandage and wrapped it around

the wound on her shoulder blade that Jamie had

kill Maddox tomorrow was no idle

afford to wait any

to the night’s events,

room and lay down

she appeared asleep but was waiting

how long to recover without taking the medicine today.

would risk her life to free the three of them as

the morning, when most people were in their most profound slumber, she quietly opened her eyes and glanced at the surveillance camera not far away.

rose and stuffed the pillow under the quilt to create the illusion of someone in bed.

she

she chose should be correct. Otherwise, Jamie’s men would have stormed

stealthily left the room, followed the surveillance line, and ascended to

chairs were placed at the end of the third-floor corridor, and two people in black suits sat on them, already

lips as she wasn’t sure when the person monitoring the surveillance would notice the scene on the camera, so she had to locate the central control room and disable all the villa’s security measures to stand a chance

man on the left, swiftly raised her hand, and

his head and propped him back on

similarly, she slung one long gun over her back, held the other in her hand, and ventured

control room was on the third floor, but she knew that

computer should be able to turn off the villa’s

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