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Briar and Ashton were standing by the window, watching the two woinen in the courtyard making a mess of themselves.
She asked, “Darling, is it really wise to treat the Wade family this way? What if you make them resent you even
more?”
Briar was amused watching the helpless and pitiful Emily frantically wheeling around the courtyard, unable to escape Beatrice, who was dragging a corpse and trying to place it on her.
Ashton gave her a sidelong glance, clearly amused at how entertained she was. “Even if I wasn’t ‘kicked out of the Wade family. I never bothered to care about their opinion of me.”
He was the head of the Wade family. In their household, his word still carried weight.
After watching the cat–and–mouse game in the courtyard for a while longer, they grew bored.
Briar folded her arms and lifted her chin. “Tell me, how long are they going to drag this out before they move the corpse? I’m getting tired.”
Briar had dealt with enough tonight. Unwilling to watch the commotion in the courtyard, she decided to head upstairs to bed.
“Sleepy?” Ashton pulled the yawning Briar into his embrace and patted her shoulder. “I’ll make them leave right away.”
As he spoke, he cocked his gun with one hand and fired two shots into the empty courtyard.
In the courtyard, the two women who had been chasing each other suddenly froze as if someone had hit a pause button. They didn’t dare to move a muscle.
Ashton’s voice came from inside. “You have half an hour to clean up this yard. Otherwise, the next bullets from my gun will hit you.”
Emily wanted to turn and look, but she was terrified a bullet would hit her if she moved. Fighting back her fear, she cried out, “Ashton, my leg is broken! The corpses are too heavy. I really can’t move them.”
Ashton was unfazed. “That’s your problem. I’m only saying this once, so don’t test my patience. If you’re not done in time, you’ll face the consequences.”
Then came the sound of a window shutting.
Emily and Beatrice looked at each other in dismay. As terrifying as it was to move the bodies, Ashton’s final words were even more powerful.
The next second, both Emily and Beatrice sprang into action.
This time, Emily offered her wheelchair and clapped her hands. “Quick! We’re running out of time. Put the body on my lap. You carry, and I’ll transport.”
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“Okay, hold steady. I’ll put this lighter one on first.” Beatrice nodded hurriedly.
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And so, despite being scared out of their wits, the two of them forced themselves through their tears and panic, fumbling and stumbling…
In four trips, they moved the four bodies, all with bloody, mangled heads, out of the villa.
Just as they finally moved the fourth body past the villa gate, they heard it slowly close behind them before they even had a chance to look back.
Beatrice looked down at herself, covered in blood, then at the body still slumped over Emily’s wheelchair. The desperate energy that had fueled her just moments ago completely drained away.
Ignoring her blood–covered hands, Beatrice collapsed to the ground and burst out wailing.
She asked herself why nothing good ever happened whenever she ran into Briar.
Broken legs and compensation were just minor, but now she was literally moving corpses for Briar.
Emily wondered why she deserved this. She wanted to cry, but she couldn’t.
For one, the man’s corpse draped over her wheelchair was crushing her. Beatrice had hired tall, burly foreign mercenaries, and they were too heavy.
Second, she could clearly feel the cold, yet scalding, fresh blood slowly seeping through her fingers as she held the corpse.
No ordinary person could face death calmly. For someone like Emily, who had no training and had never been close to death before, cradling a corpse that was growing colder by the second was unbearable. And she had done this four times tonight.
The horrifying sensation, the cold flesh, the blood, would probably haunt her for the rest of her life.
“Beatrice, hurry up and get this person off me!” Emily screamed, her voice trembling, as she saw Beatrice crying endlessly.
It was not the time to cry. They needed to get out of here. She had to go home and lie low.
The task they had been given wasn’t completed. She had no doubt the people who sent them wouldn’t let them off easily. And this stupid Beatrice still had time to cry.
Emily’s shout finally brought Beatrice to her senses. She looked up with eyes red from crying, trying to gain some sympathy from Emily.
But unfortunately, they were only temporary partners. Neither truly felt sorry for the other.
Beatrice wiped her tears and, together with Emily, moved the last body to the side of the road. Then, one sat in the wheelchair while the other pushed it toward the neighborhood entrance.
They stumbled out of Moonspring Estate in a daze, and a gust of cold wind made them both shiver.
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They finally realized that they were covered in blood. Luckily, it was the middle of the night, so the streets were nearly empty. Even the security guard at the Moonspring Estate gatehouse was gone.
Just as Emily was wondering how to get home, the dozen bodyguards she had dismissed earlier suddenly appeared. The lead bodyguard approached her respectfully. “Miss Wade, are you heading home?”
Emily nodded eagerly. “Quick, take me home. Take me back to the old house.”
She needed to stay somewhere close to the old man. She had a strong premonition that she would die if she didn’t survive this.
As for Beatrice, whether she lived or died was none of her business.
The lead bodyguard nodded and gestured for the others to help Emily into a car. Someone else drove another vehicle over from across the street. Then, they sped off without a backward glance, leaving Beatrice standing alone and bewildered in the wind.
Beatrice was left speechless.
With no other choice, Beatrice called Camden. “Camden, can you come pick me up at Moonspring Estate…?”
After a shivering Beatrice was picked up from the community gate, the door to the small room in the security booth was pushed open. Brandon and Ian emerged, followed by the guard on the night shift.
The security guard looked at the surveillance monitor and hesitated to speak. “Brandon, about what happened tonight…”
Brandon waved dismissively. “I’ll be taking all of tonight’s surveillance footage. Just find a random tape to cover the gap. If anyone asks, tell them I took the footage.”
Hearing that Brandon would take responsibility, the guard immediately nodded. “Got it. I’ll make sure it’s done right and no one will discover it.”
Ian was already at the surveillance computer, copying the footage.
Honestly, if Ashton and Briar hadn’t deliberately escalated the situation, they wouldn’t have needed him and Brandon to handle something as minor as the surveillance footage. Briar could have easily altered it herself.
He wondered what other moves those people had yet to make. Their dawdling was starting to annoy him.
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