Chapter 22
On the first day Howard settled in the fishing it village, he canned panic among all the villagers.
When Victo
Victoria
He had a wooden cabin built opposite the small house where Victoria lived, so close that he could see her every move from the window. V drew the curtains, be levied appdnst the door frame and scooked, staring at her shadow through the
“What do you want to do?!
Victoria finally couldn’t bear it anymore and pulled back the curtains,
Howard blew a smoke ring and laughed with a mischievous look
“Look at you
“Get lost.”
“Don’t roll”
Victoria picked up the cup on the table and splashed it over, Howard didn’t dodge, letting the water drip down his chin onto his shirt, he even licks the water droplets on the corner of his lips.
“Sweet”
The next morning, Victoria pushed open the window and found a steaming bowl of soup on the windowsill.
Howard leaned against the tree, and when he saw her open the window, he humidiately stood up.
“Eat it while it’s hot.”
Victoria expressionlessly poured the porridge into the trash can
Howard was not upset either, and in the afternoon he sent over another basket of freshly caught crabs.
“Get
lost
“Don’t roll.”
Victoria grabbed the crabs and smashed it on him, Howard caught it with one hand, and also opened the crab shell, handing the fattest crab roe to her mouth.
“Want to try?”
Alter knowing that it was not Howard who started the fire, the villagers initial fear gradually turned into a spectacle.
“Victoria.”
The old chieftain sighed as he leaned on his cane
“The plague god was blocking the village entrance every day, and the fishing boats dared not go out to sea.”
Victoria ground her back teeth and rushed out with a harpoon.
Howard was grilling fish on the beach. When he saw her coming, his eyes lit up.
“Right, the fish was just cooked.”
“How
are you going to leave?
Howard flipped the grilled fish slowly and deliberately.
“You come back with me.”
That’s just wasting time,”
He form off a piece of fish and landed it over.
perity of time anyway. ”
Although Howard lead time, Beatrice lud not to waste on him.
Until the early moming of the eighth day, the sea fog; had not dispersed, and the first gunshot shattered the tranquility.
“Bung
Victoria woke up from a dream, and bullets had already pierced through the wooden frame of her window, In the moment she rolled out of bed, the entire
vall was ridilled with bullets from a submachine gun.
“Lie down!”
Howard kicked open her door and rushed in. A bullet grazed his shoulder, leaving a trail of blood. He pinned her tightly against the wall, tiring three shots out the window with one hand in the distance, there was a multled sound of something heavy falling
“What’s going on?
Victoria grabbed the gun hidden under the bed.
Howard’s face turned terribly dark.
“Beatrice passed on the message.”
The village was in chaos,
Elliot led the villagers into the rocky cave, Melina’s screams mingling with the gunfire were particularly piercing, “Howard!”
more than a dozen black SUV’s blocking all the exits, and armed militants in bulletproof vests shooting at anyone they saw.
“You also have today, damn it!”
Victoria saw through the broken glass the scar–faced man standing on betrayed his own brother’s hideout.
anding on top of
of the lighthouse, the biggest drug lord Edward Cowan, who had five years
years ago
The echo of the loudspeaker came from the abandoned lighthouse across the street.
Howard suddenly laughed and turned to Victoria, saying
“Later, I counted to three, you
uran west, and someone was waiting behind the reef to assist.”
“You…”
“Ode, nivo…
dust on the ground. Victoria gritted her teeth and
He rushed out before he could count to three, bullets chasing him as they rolled out in the flying du followed, the two of them hiling back to back behind the millstone of the rice mill.
“Weren’t you
supposed to run, damn it?”
Howard’s hands were shaking as he changed the magazine.
Victoria shot the enemy scout across the street and said, “Shut up.”
Edward’s men were getting closer and closer, and suddenly Howard pulled something out from his waist and threw it to Victoria – it was the coin.
“He took it.”
He laughed slyly.
“If I die, consider it as a betrothal
Howard!
Victoria suddenly pointed to the east side alley, where Beatrice stood in a pool of blood wearing a white dress, gesturing towards Edward, Howard’s eyes narrowed, and he swiftly rushed out like lightning, grabbing her by the neck and dragging her to the central open space where the two armies faced off. “Edward!”
“E got you a gift!”
Beatrice was still pretending to be stupid when she was thrown onto the sand.
“Howard, what are you doing?”
“Still acting
toward grabbed her wrist
“From a year ago when you were ‘pichosting? by me on pompose at the bar, to Last mouth when you forged the order for me to execute Victoria. Your thought you had me wrapyvokanomind your tager, but in the end, who is the teal food?”
He looked up at the lighthouse c
“Babyand’s undercoven acting skills were pretty good, boh
Edboard was silent for a few seconds, then souddenly burst into laughter.
“Howard is Hewcond ”
He raised the sniper rifle,
“But this chess piece is useless tune,”
at
“No! I was pregnant will you….”
When the bullet pierced Bestrice’s abdomen, she looked down in disbeliet at the gushing blood, and Edward blew on the muzzle
“One shot, two lives, worth it,”
Howard’s pupils shrank, not expecting that Edward would even kill his own flesh and blood
A scream suddenly came from the direction of the rocks. Victoria turned around to see the old chief talling to the ground, Elliot getting shot in the thigh while trying to protect his grandmother, and Edward’s men throwing Molotov cocktails towards the cave where women and children were hiding
Stop
She suddenly
enly stood up and raised both hands high.
“I was an undercover police officer! All the intelligence was passed by me!”
