Chapter 283
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Sean lifted his gaze and met Joseph’s eyes. “Take me instead. Let her go. Have your men escort her out of here.”
Joseph smiled, slow and wicked, “Tsk, tsk. I thought lovers were supposed to stick together through thick and thin. Looks like when the real danger hits, it’s every man for himself, huh?”
Seam didn’t respond to the mockery. He simply bent down and carefully scooped Charlotte into his arms, holding her lile she was the most fragile thing in the world, terrified of causing her more pain.
Her body was covered in cuts. None were too deep, but they wereșull bleeding. Her clothes were soaked in blood. Every stain on her shirt felt like another shard driven into Sean’s heart.
His voice was cold and commanding “Pm taking her downstairs. You send someone to get her out of here. Now.”
Even as he spoke, Sean darted to the side with Charlotte in his amis.
At that exact moment, a red dot appeared between Joseph’s eyebrows.
And not just him, every one of his men had a laser dot on their foreheads or chests.
“You brought a sniper team?” Joseph shouted furiously when he noticed the red sights on his men. Rage twisted his face.
Sean’s lips curled into a
a contemptuous sinirk.
Joseph’s men all looked at each other in shock. Clearly, none of them expected Sean to have a backup plan.
“What the hell? Didn’t we check him? Wasn’t he alone?” one of them muttered, swearing under his breath.
“He was alone!” someone else replied, panicked.
“Then where the hell did the snipers come from?!“”
“L. I don’t know
Joseph had been through situations like this more times than he could count. After his Initial surprise, he quickly regained his cool, shrugging like it was nothing. “Now that’s more like the Sean Jasper I know. If you’d really come here alone to die for a woman, you wouldn’t be worthy of being my rival.”
But clearly, Joseph had been expecting a trap too.
Still, he was exposed out in the open, while Sean’s team was hidden in the shadows. And Joseph had no idea how many more people were watching. ready to strike.
In the blink of an eye, the entire power dynamic flipped and not in Joseph’s favor,
After Charlotte had gone missing Demond and Xena had been running around trying to find her. In the chaus, no one had been left to protect the family
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