They arrived at the apartment shortly after.

To their utter surprise, a familiar figure was already waiting there.

“Isn’t that Mr. Edmund?” the man shrieked in excitement. He got out of the car and ran toward Edmund swiftly.

Sabrina spotted him behind the wheel of her bike and hit the brakes. At once, the engine stopped roaring.

The man was indeed Edmund in the flesh.

However, he was in a terrible state. Besides his swollen face, he was trudging forward with one hand on his stomach, and his body bent slightly.

Did they beat him up?

Sabrina narrowed her eyes.

Edmund had spotted them as well. “W-Why are you here?” he asked weakly after coming to a stop.

He focused his swollen eyes on the woman on the bike as something glinted across his gaze.

His subordinate immediately supported him. “We’re here to save you, Mr. Edmund. You’ve been missing for two days. Mr. Cooper is back in Jadeborough and couldn’t make it here. I was so worried!”

“So you got the beggars to save me?”

Edmund swept his gaze over the bunch of beggars behind the man.

They were the ones who told us where you are.

didn’t bother to answer to

glanced at the woman on the bike, biting back the pain

hotel robe and slippers. If she wasn’t staring at him without a word and he could feel the icy

she wasn’t. He knew that she was a rose, one with pricks at

beat you

came his curt

me

when Edmund trudged over to her, blinded with pain, the first thing she asked was

in

pressed one palm to his chest and glanced at her, appearing to be

Can you bring me to the hospital?” He

a trace of reluctance

all, he couldn’t even stand on his legs, and there didn’t seem to be any cabs

further delay, Edmund climbed

are you riding

soon,” Edmund cut his subordinate short with a brusque

around the woman’s waist in a natural

his arms away as

lips together quietly. Fine, I won’t touch

his hands obediently

and started the engine to head to the

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