When There Is Nothing Left But Love

Chapter 1736 Joseph Had Taken Off

The man in the video’s thumbnail image was none other than Joseph, whom I had parted ways with a short time ago. However, he seemed to be in a bad way with his eyes sunken and dark eye bags below them, a world of difference from the strong man in my memories.

Trembling, I tapped on the first voice message, and the others played sequentially.

“Come over and help me figure out how to deal with this. I found him in the alley behind The Jade. There are no other wounds on him apart from a few prick marks. He has probably been injected with a high dosage of drugs, and the other party is determined to have him addicted at a single go. They’re really ruthless.”

And so it went.

A buzzing started in my mind. So, Ashton still didn’t protect him in the end?

I rushed over to The Jade, only to see Emery waiting anxiously at the door. From the looks of it, she had been waiting for quite some time.

While leading me in, she murmured, “This way. I have someone watching over him.”

“Are you sure it’s drugs?” I asked softly, harboring a final shred of hope within me. Like Ashton, Joseph was an outstanding man, so he shouldn’t be tainted with such a nasty substance.

it is.” Emery sighed regretfully,

and burly bodyguards were keeping guard outside the room door on the right, one on either side. Their indifferent expressions made it so that no one dared to approach the

the door and

been normal,” the

response, Emery nodded.

key and unfastened the safety lock hanging on the door before pushing the

we walked in, the huge room was

glance, reckoning that Joseph

exhaust fan on the ceiling had been

day that

of events, Emery grew morose. “Why did he hightail it out of here when I

between the exhaust fan and the floor. Although there was a chair to boost him up, it would’ve certainly taken quite some effort to climb up. Emery said he’s already doped up, so he’s likely weak and

recalled his restrained voice on the

side of him? Even as a bystander, I feel as though it has never happened when I didn’t behold it with my

All of a sudden, something occurred to me. If he has been reduced to this, what about