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Chapter 4

Author: rika
Soren stopped paying attention to the others and slowly shifted his gaze to me.

He raised a hand, let his fingertips trail along my neck, and lifted my chin.

“Pretty little thing. You’ve got some skill, and I like that.”

I met his gaze without flinching and said nothing.

“Come to think of it, I don’t think I’ve heard your voice yet. Can’t you speak?”

He brushed his fingers lightly across my lips again.

I slowly raised my right hand and made a gesture toward the outside.

Soren naturally had no idea what it meant and gave me a lecherous grin. “What’s this? Trying to charm me?”

“Relax. I’ll take very good care of you tonight. And if you can’t scream, that saves me the trouble.”

Let him laugh.

In a moment, I would see whether he still could.

What he failed to notice was that the glaring red laser dots around the room were winking out one by one.

Silently.

The perimeter was clear.

I looked directly at him as the corner of my mouth slowly curved upward.

Soren took my expression as a sign that I had finally accepted my fate and was trying to please him, and the smugness on his face became impossible to hide. “Don’t be afraid. This little show is almost over.”

He thought it was over?

How naive.

My part had only just begun.

Soren gave one of his men a look.

The man immediately understood and raised the heavy butt of his gun, preparing to bring it down hard on Ezio’s head.

At the exact moment the weapon came down, I suddenly shifted half a step forward and drove my shoulder hard into the man’s arm.

He grunted, and his swing faltered.

Before he could react, I seized the wrist of his gun hand, twisted it sharply behind him, and drove my knee hard into his abdomen.

He let out a muffled groan and dropped to his knees as the gun fell from his hand and struck the floor with a heavy clatter.

Soren spun around, and his expression immediately darkened.

“You interfering little nuisance!”

He strode toward me and leaned down. “Starting tomorrow, you’ll be crawling at my feet like a pet.”

I stared at him with a smile and tipped my chin toward the windows.

Soren immediately turned to look outside.

At that exact moment, the constant static in his earpiece abruptly disappeared.

“Come in.” He pressed the earpiece, his brows drawing together. “Answer me.”

No one responded.

While his attention was elsewhere, I reached out and clamped a hand around his wrist.

Soren barely had time to let out a muffled grunt before I twisted his arm sharply behind his back and slammed him against the edge of the table.

He instinctively tried to struggle, only to realize in shock that he could not wrench himself free.

His men paled at the sight, and every gun in the room immediately came back up and aimed at me.

Just then, the sound of rapid footsteps came from outside the door and grew steadily closer.

I knew they did not belong to Soren’s men.

The approaching footsteps froze everyone in place. No one dared act recklessly.

I cleared my throat and finally spoke in the low, still-raspy voice my doctor had only cleared me to use the day before.

“Go home and ask your father whether that original document from Geneva three years ago would hold up under scrutiny.”

“Our three-year agreement expires tomorrow.”

“And ask him one more thing for me. Does he still want to live?”
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