Though intended to take their measure, the masked woman's every question sounded fairly reasonable. This woman was quite astute.After giving it some thought with a sepulchral look in his eyes, Christian said to the masked woman, "Pull over. We'll find somewhere to get some rest and wait for them while we're at it."Abandoning his men when on the run, without doubt, was something White scorned to do.Christian couldn't forsake his subordinates either. Although the larger the group, the greater the risk of blowing his cover, he had no other choice.The masked woman found a spot ahead and stopped the car without a word.At the sight of the car at their head pulling over, the men in the other cars followed suit, got out and walked over, waiting for further instructions in silence.Christian, emanating a commanding air of leadership, gave some orders and with that some underlings promptly volunteered to contact local forces, check out the lay of the land and find a suitable place for
Christian grabbed the two room keys with his big hand, pivoted around and walked off.The masked woman called out to him from behind, "Where are you going?""The restaurant," Christian replied flintily without a backward glance. "Are you not hungry?"The masked woman made no response.She had been driving non-stop since last night, so of course she was hungry.But they hadn't decided on the room arrangement yet.Jessica paused for a moment and then followed in Christian's wake.Having noticed that Jessica was following him, the masked woman, naturally, was unwilling to be left behind and thus began to descend the stairs with Christian.The hotel had prepared a secluded spot for them to dine. At the sight of the sumptuous buffet, the underlings promptly started to gobble, trying to alleviate their panic with food.Nobody could have foreseen that things would go south. They were totally unprepared for this situation.These people would probably have long since cleared off if Wh
Christian had the belt of his bathrobe loosely fastened, leaving a small part of his chest showing, looking so casual and languid as though he were in his own bedroom.Though on the run and under great pressure, he was still emanating a powerful brooding air which deterred people from defying him.His eyes lifted and flashed at the furious masked woman, the sharp contours of his chin under the mask etched with flintiness.The sight of Christian's reaction antagonized the masked woman even further. "White! I'm not gonna ask about the history between you and this woman, but have you any idea what kind of situation we're faced with? If you sleep with her in these circumstances, what will your men think of you? And how will you retain your command?!""Are you questioning my ability to keep my men in line?!"Christian abruptly lifted his narrowed eyes and fixed the indignant masked woman with a stare.At the sight of the drastic change in Christian's countenance, the masked woman's at
"White, Felton and his men are here!" the man guarding outside reported."Let them in!"Christian ordered in a cold voice. He stuck out his chest and instantly flung away the masked woman wrapped around his body.The masked woman stood still, fixed her messy collar and hair, turned her head, and took a sinister glance at Jessica.The door opened and four men walked in.The masked woman knew what was what. She would not be hysterical in front of White's minions. Besides, her eyes were quickly tinged with suspicion, as if she was intentionally observing Christian's reaction to see if he recognized his minions…Christian shot a glance at the several incoming people. He was not sure which one was Felton. If he made a mistake now, he would lose.Even so, the anger on his face was already brewing, and the crowd in this room was shocked by his fury.Felton couldn't withstand it, so he begged for mercy first. "White…"Christian quickly fixed his eyes on the speaker.The next second h
Jessica had psyched herself up some time ago, knowing that the masked woman was guaranteed to get hysterical.At this point in time, this masked woman had no room in her mind for anything except her relations with White, which showed that she was indeed in love with White.This was the very key fact that she, Jessica, should take advantage of!All women tend to be blind to reason when in love, especially those being tortured by unrequited love.Jessica turned to look the cocky masked woman in the face and asked, "What do you think?"There was no outsider present, and neither was there anybody to protect Jessica, so the masked woman, having no reason to restrain her anger anymore, took a step forward and lifted her hand. "I can't believe Christian's wife is so shameless as to sleep with another man behind his back! I'll skin you alive!"The next second, Jessica gripped the masked woman's raised hand.Jessica had been on full alert since the moment she'd entered this room, all her
What Jessica had said touched the masked woman's two raw nerves.The masked woman was afraid that White would abandon her thoroughly and her men would think that she was incapable.The masked woman calmed down. Finally, Jessica could relax for a while...Felton took his men to have a meal in a hurry. When they returned to the room, Christian had fallen asleep on the bed.They didn't have the guts to make noises to disturb him. Each of them picked up a quilt. Two men huddled and slept on another bed. One man slept on the ground directly. The other man guarded the door.Not long after, they started snoring.Christian pretended that he had fallen asleep. He was awake all the time.He was thinking about the current situation and was worried about Jessica who was in the opposite room.The masked woman liked to stir up trouble. She was aggressive, peremptory and unreasonable. He was afraid that Jessica would be bullied.'The most important thing for us is to get out of the plight as
Both Jessica and Christian perceived that something was amiss, and almost in the same instant, a sudden crunch of feet on withered leaves issued from the tussock behind the giant ball of flames.Before any of them could react, a bunch of men in black dashed out from behind the tussock grass, hooded and masked. It was impossible to see their features, but every one of them was holding a wicked-looking dagger!The couple of underlings at the front lunged forward and started a melee with those masked men, but those men were quite ferocious and soon broke through the surrounding circle and closed in on Christian.Christian gave a clean roundhouse kick which forced the masked men into backing off.And then, taking advantage of the opportunity, Christian conveniently threw Jessica a few feet away with a swing of his arm before he aimed a jumping kick at another masked man, thwarting his attack.About a second later, before Jessica could regain her balance, Christian gripped her wrist ag
Jessica swiveled her head aside and saw that it was the masked woman who was holding a dagger to her throat."What are you doing?!"Brows knitted, she glared at the masked woman who seemed to have lost her mind."What do you think I'm doing?! I want you dead!" the masked woman snapped through gritted teeth, having the almost overwhelming desire to stab Jessica to death.In the masked woman's eyes, a few minutes ago, in that life-or-death moment, the one that White had subconsciously tried to protect was not her but Jessica! She would not let anybody else get what she couldn't get!The masked woman's eyes, ablaze with fury, flashed at Christian in the fray, resentment glinting in them!"Seriously?! You're gonna turn against your ally at this point in time?!“Jessica forced herself to calm down in an attempt to psych out the masked woman."My ally?! Stop flattering yourself!" The masked woman, however, refused to listen to her, blinded to reason by her jealousy.Right at that mo