Chapter 256
So, once again protected by his bodyguards, Freddie hurriedly got into a car and drove off toward the mountain behind the villa.
Freddie sat in the car with a grim expression, flanked by two bodyguards. The atmosphere inside was quiet and oppressive. His gaze, fixed on the road ahead, held an indescribable madness and gloom.
“Have you found out who sent them?” Freddie asked.
The bodyguard in the passenger seat turned around. “Boss, if our information is correct, they are Ashton’s men. The two at the front are Connor and Brandon.”
“I thought we sent people to intercept them! Where are they? Why haven’t they reported back? Are they all dead?!” Freddie grew angrier as he spoke, his eyes turning red as he glared at the bodyguard in the passenger
seat.
The bodyguard didn’t dare to talk back as Freddie berated him. He tried to explain, “I’m sorry, Boss. I haven’t received any news from them, so I thought they hadn’t encountered Ashton’s group yet. Who knew that Ashton’s men would have already found us?”
Suddenly, the bodyguard on the left spoke with a terrified look on his face. “Boss, I don’t think it’s just Ashton’s men who’ve found us…”
Freddie immediately understood. “You mean Briar is here too?”
The bodyguard on the left nodded. “Boss, everything was so chaotic just now that we couldn’t react. No matter how stealthy and skilled Ashton’s men are, they couldn’t have stormed our villa so quickly without us noticing a thing.”
“Boss, our villa’s security cameras must have been hacked beforehand.” The bodyguard on the right chimed in, his face even paler than Freddie’s. “Otherwise, how could we have missed everything?”
The car fell into a brief, deathly silence again.
They had escaped in a hurry and didn’t have time to review the villa’s security footage. After regaining his composure, Freddie eagerly took out his phone to check the surveillance system.
However, the connection between his phone and the villa was lost.
His phone, the main hub for the security feed, could not connect to the surveillance signal.
Seeing Freddie staring at the lost connection, the bodyguard to his left said dejectedly, “Just as I thought. Someone tampered with our surveillance. That’s why our men didn’t spot the intruders right away.”
“Don’t worry. Our men will cover our retreat. This back–mountain road is almost impossible to spot, even by satellite. We’ll definitely get the boss out of here.” The bodyguard was also a tough character. Since it was a life–or–death situation, their top priority was to escape with their lives.
However, before anyone else could agree, they saw a black SUV parked brazenly at a bend in the rugged mountain road ahead. Sitting on its hood was a familiar figure that Freddie had been obsessing over—Briar.
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The very person they were just discussing suddenly appeared before them, holding several small, gourd- shaped bombs. Only someone who had experienced such a visual shock firsthand could truly understand the feeling.
Freddie roared, “Kill them! Quick! Kill them now!”
‘Impossible! This is impossible! There is not even a road on this side of the mountain. How did their car get here?‘ he thought.
The car stopped, and the bodyguards immediately raised their guns, aiming at Briar on the hood. A firefight was imminent.
Ashton took a step forward, shielding Briar behind him. He stood there with one hand in his pocket, not even holding a gun.
He had a calm demeanor that seemed to say, “I bet you won’t dare to shoot.”
Freddie didn’t dare to shoot Ashton.
The status and power of the Wade family, combined with the numerous covert forces under Ashton’s control, forced Freddie to be wary of him.
This was why, even when cornered and with Briar ready to drop a bomb on his head, he only dared to point his gun at her and not at Ashton.
He couldn’t afford to offend the Wade family.
He certainly couldn’t afford to offend Ashton.
The bodyguards were more panicked than Freddie. “Boss, what do we do? Do we still shoot?”
Freddie stared intently at Ashton and Briar, who was peeking out from behind with a smile. Finally, he redirected all his frustration toward the man on the other side, pointing and ordering, “Take out their accomplice first.”
Ian was speechless.
Silence descended.
‘So, you can’t beat Briar and don’t dare to mess with Ashton, which means you think I’m an easy target, is that it?‘ Ian thought.
“Fine, bring it on! I’ll show you just how formidable lan can be.” Ian finally understood. After taking 15 million dollars from Ashton, it was his job to step up for the dirty work.
Hearing this, the bodyguards paused with their guns raised. They took another hard look at the arrogant, nonchalant man, feeling that his face seemed familiar.
But no matter how familiar he looked, he couldn’t be more untouchable than Ashton.
So they just accepted the challenge.
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The next second, gunfire erupted. Both sides used the cars for cover as sparks flew, but they all tacitly avoided Ashton and Briar.
But Freddie was not so lucky.
No matter how good the bodyguards were, bullets don’t discriminate, and accidents were bound to happen.
Ten minutes into the firefight, a scream echoed through the mountain forest as a bullet pierced Freddie’s shoulder.
It was not Ian. Briar fired the shot.
Freddie hid in the car, watching from a tricky angle as his bodyguards exchanged fire with the men on the other side. The moment he peeked out again, a bullet shot through the half–open window and struck his shoulder.
He didn’t even see how Briar moved from behind Ashton to a nearby tree. He thought she had been sitting on the hood the entire time, casually tossing a small, gourd–shaped bomb.
“Boss, go! We’ll hold them off!” The bodyguards fighting Ian heard the scream from the car and knew it was bad. They roared for Freddie and his men to drive away.
They were all men trained by Freddie. If they died, their families would receive a huge compensation, enough for them to live without worry for the rest of their lives.
That’s why Freddie had gotten away with running a live–subject laboratory and committing crimes for so many years. Whenever there was danger, his bodyguards died for him.
Freddie clutched his shoulder and collapsed onto the back seat. While firing his gun, the bodyguard from the front passenger seat scrambled into the driver’s seat, trying to drive Freddie away.
Unfortunately, after finally finding the real Ben, there was no way Briar would let him escape so easily.
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