“Mr.Harding, we won’t do anything to hurt her.You can rest assured.”

The head of the Burke family laughed awkwardly.

After getting off the phone with the Burke family, Garrett received another call from his family “I heard that your girlfriend offended the Burke family? Moreover, I heard that this so called ‘girlfriend of yours is a hit woman? Is that true?”

Although they were posed as questions, the woman on the other end of the line sounded resigned.

“I’ll handle it.Don’t worry about me, Mom,” Garrett said lightheartedly.

“How can I not worry about you? You’re my son.” The woman sighed again.

“I promise I’ll handle it, Mom.I can take care of myself.Anyway, I have to get back to work now.”

Just then, the door to the study was pushed open and Laney strode in.

“Mr.Harding, have you heard anything from the Burkes yet?”

Laney poked her head in and asked through the crack of the door.

With a distressed look on his face, Garrett fumbled for an excuse, “We’re still, er, negotiating.The Burke family hasn’t responded yet.Just stay here for a few more days, okay?”

“Okay.Please inform me when you hear from them, Mr.Harding.”

Laney nodded, closed the door, and left.

Garrett had been having a good time with Laney these days and didn’t want her to leave yet, so he hid the truth from her in the meantime.

Another week passed.

tree in the garden as a makeshift dummy for her to practice

a new batch of fallen leaves by the base of the

new sandbag.The poor

the balding tree, Garrett

nothing and just nodded gloomily.She was getting bored and restless.She

think those thugs are

city.It’s not safe out there, Laney.Just

and she felt she was getting rusty at it.She pounded the

two days later, Laney couldn’t stand it anymore.She packed up

to stay here.I’ve never been so bored in

don‘t leave yet—” Garrett reached for her hand and

and shouted, “Get away from

she ran out the door with

they‘ll have to come and get me!” Garrett rubbed his temples.He knew he

to the Pole

they all thought that something bad had happened

Burke family

country and go into hiding for a while,” someone suggested, their voice

been staying with Garrett for nearly half a month and was

kill whoever tries to

that Laney looked so confident, no one tried to talk her into running away anymore.They all

stayed with the organization for

she‘d normally do, but

just let her go?

eerily quiet, Laney began to look for a place to stay near

a housing rental agency.It was their leader, the tattooed man.He was chewing gum with his hands in

he saw that Laney was staring straight at him,

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