“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.

the garden as a makeshift dummy for her

batch of fallen leaves by the base of the

get you a new sandbag.The poor tree never did anything wrong to

balding tree, Garrett

bad mood, so she said nothing and just nodded gloomily.She

those thugs are gone.I

all over the city.It’s not safe out there, Laney.Just stay with

she felt she was getting rusty at it.She pounded

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

never been so bored in my life.I’m going to fight those guys! At least it’s

yet—” Garrett reached for her hand

hand and shouted,

respond, she ran

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

to the Pole

people there hadn’t seen her in weeks, so they all thought that something bad had happened to

all, the news that the Burke family wanted her dead had

leave the country and go into hiding for

Garrett for nearly half a month

kill whoever tries

tried to talk her into running away anymore.They all knew

stayed with the organization for

period, she did whatever she‘d normally do, but no one

Burkes just let her go? That wasn‘t like

had gone eerily quiet, Laney began to

was their leader, the tattooed man.He was chewing

he saw that Laney was staring straight at him,

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