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.

is.” Emery sighed regretfully, saying nothing

the room door on the right, one on either side. Their indifferent

at the door and questioned one of

has been normal,” the

nodded.

Then he took out a key and unfastened the safety

in, the huge room

that Joseph must have hidden away. “Perhaps he’s in the

exhaust fan on the ceiling had been pried open, and the

was clear as day that he had already taken

morose. “Why did he hightail it out of

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

his restrained voice on the phone earlier. “He didn’t want someone

been immaculate before others, so how could he possibly tolerate showing others the most pathetic side of him? Even as a bystander, I feel as though it has never happened when I didn’t behold it with

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