Chapter 4
The consequence of offending Howard was that, even when she caught a cold and had a fever of 30 degrees from getting caught in the rain, he still insisted on having Vk torla accompany him for shopping;.
The night was as dark as ink, and the tin roof of the abandoned factory creaked in the wind.
Despite the urgent task tonight, Beatrice inexplicably insisted on coming along.
Victoria blinked her eyes and looked at Howard sitting in the back seat.
Howard just indulgently glanced at Beatrice playing with the gun, without insisting on her going back
This made her even more displeased, but at this moment she had no time to pay attention to these emotions.
A man with a face full of horizontal flesh emerged from the shadows, his gaze sticky as it swept over Victoria.
The laughter sounded particularly harsh in the silent night sky, as if it were a mockery from hell.
“Mr. Irwin, isn’t it a good deal to exchange this batch of goods with your woman?
If in the past, a man dared to ask Victoria like this, Howard would probably have shot him.
Howard’s mouth twitched slightly, looking somewhat amused.
“Did you think I came to trade?”
“I came to clear the field.”
Victoria’s bullet had already pierced through the man’s knee, and the man let out a piercing scream, his body suddenly leaning forward, his previously arrogant demeanor extinguished in an instant.
In the melee, Victoria suddenly saw Beatrice running out from behind the container. A scar–faced man was swinging a steel pipe at her. “Bang”
When the steel pipe hit Victoria’s back, she smelled the taste of her own blood.
She thought Beatrice would be stressed out, and was planning to comfort her a few words.
a strange smile in her arms: “Interfering in other people’s business.” And pushed her violently onto the ground full of
But Beatrice suddenly showed a s broken glass.
Victoria was taken aback and followed Beatrice’s gaze, only to see a man hiding in the shadows.
After seeing Beatrice’s signal, he immediately raised his gun without hesitation and aimed at Howard not far away.
Beatrice suddenly changed her mind for some reason, and she threw herself forward, blocking the bullet flying towards Howard.
Howard it hurts…”
Beatrice fell into Howard’s arms, and Howard caught her body in a panic. Under his blood–stalised sleeve, t
been drawn on.
the wound was so shallow it looked like it had
Victoria wanted to shout, but the injury on her back prevented her from making a sound. She instinctively picked up the gun and fired, hitting the man opposite her.
Every slight struggle only made the pain more intense, as if countless knives were stirring on her back.
She could only watch helplessly as Howard tightly held Beatrice and walked step by step towards the car, before returning after settling Beatrice.
His shadow loomed over Victoria in the moonlight.
what w
was the first lesson I taught you?”
“Protect the important people”
“What did you do then? Did you make her take a bullet for you?”
“Have I been teaching you in vain all these years?”
Victoria Lifted her head and looked at the man in front of her, who had once made her heart race, but now
