Wooing My Ex-Wife

Chapter 590 Cedrick Has His Suspicions 

“Annie kicked over the fuel tank earlier and wanted to set it on fire to perish with me. Thankfully, I managed to stop her in time,” Gwendolyn explained before nodding toward the lighter dropped outside the cage. “There. That’s what she was about to use.”

“I can’t believe she still has the cheek to pull a stunt like this. She’s incorrigible!” Nico fumed.

Asher, too, was grim–faced as he glowered at Paul. “What are you waiting for? Open the cage now,” he ordered, his voice hoarse but authoritative.

Paul then gestured to his bodyguards, who promptly pressed a switch on the opposite wall to raise the giant cage back to the ceiling.

Without further ado, Nico and the others walked to Gwendolyn. “Has Annie told you about Mom’s cause of death?” Asher asked.

Gwendolyn nodded. “Yes. It’s all over. Haul her away, Nico, I want to look into every crime she has committed over the years.”

“Sure, Gwendolyn.”

Not wanting to stay a second longer, the woman turned around and left.

Coincidentally, Annie had regained consciousness and glared at Gwendolyn’s retreating figure.

“Gwendolyn, you may not have dared to strangle me to death, but I sure as hell have the guts to kill you…

With that, she pulled out a concealed pistol before Nico’s men could grab her, aimed it at Gwendolyn, and pulled the trigger.

Having noticed what Annie was up to, Asher shouted, “Kiddo!”

Since he was also the nearest to Gwendolyn, he instinctively hugged her and shielded her from the attack

Bang!

Following the gunshot, a bullet pierced Asher’s back, causing him to wince in pain. Despite that, he continued to cling to his sister, determined to protect her.

was apprehended by Nico’s subordinates before she could fire

more she stared at the blood pooling on Asher’s back, the more deviously she

furious Gwendolyn turned to Nico, Take Annie Steinfeld back to the

the same even without Gwendolyn’s orders. After all, Annie had

with rage, her mind remained clear and sharp. “Take

fired the gun. I didn’t know Annie was going to

get her hands on a gun, then?” Gwendolyn scoffed. “Furthermore, how is her shooting so accurate? In any

the woman, downcast and silent, while a man from Team

on the

head. “No. It’s just a flesh wound. I’ll live.” Besides, we’re on an island off the coast… How is the

island. There’s a first–aid kit in the car parked by the coast. We can do

strip of fabric from her skirt and tied it around Asher’s

she and Sienna quickly helped Asher onto the boat and

up to do what needed to be done. Nico escorted Annie and Paul back to the Federal Bureau of Investigation while Gwendolyn and- Sienna rushed Asher to the hospital

surprise, Asher refused to be anesthetized despite being persuaded by the doctor and Sienna to do

“Are you really a masochist?”

enough to make up for my mistakes. Now that I finally have the honor to take a bullet for

you out of your mind?” Gwendolyn snapped. “Do you know how worried Sienna must be to see you in this much pain? Why are you so selfish? Why

sister, Asher fell silent and begrudgingly accepted the anesthetic,

completed his treatment and was transferred to an observation ward

excused herself from the room, thus giving the siblings an opportunity for a private,

left, however, neither Gwendolyn nor Asher took the

silence hung in the air for the longest

were in the villa? I saw strangulation marks on her

I’ve heard is just Annie’s one–sided claims. There’s no evidence to prove that what she said was true. I’d need to continue investigating.”

if what she said is true, it’d mean she had kept Asher in the dark and used him as a pawn… She made Asher believe he was the reason her mother died so she could guilt–trip him into doing her bidding. Alas, who knew

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