Explosives. He had planted explosives inside the villa, and Simon was inside… Was it because he wanted to rescue her?Howard led Simon into the villa and escaped with her. Was he waiting around now to see Simon get blown up?Was the nephew going to blow up his own uncle? How could he have the heart to do such a thing? He was atrociously cruel!Sharon did not have the time to reprimand Howard for his cruelty. She had to save Simon first.She moved a bit more, and her strength was slowly recovering now. However, she wondered if she could run to the villa and find a way to avoid Howard at the same time.“It should be about time now, right?” Darren said suddenly.Howard did not reply to him, but his silence frightened Sharon even more.She abruptly understood what Darren was implying. He was asking when the place would explode!There was not much time to think about this anymore. If she dilly-dallied any longer, Simon would be dead!She held her breath, pushed the car door open fi
Due to Xena’s intervention, Howard could no longer catch up to Sharon.At this moment, Sharon had already run up to the villa’s entrance. She was panting severely.Her hunch was correct yet again. Simon’s men were indeed at the villa’s entrance, and they were his bodyguards.“Quick! Go in and tell President Zachary that there are explosives inside… Tell him to get out of there…” She could not run anymore and merely grabbed a bodyguard while saying in a hurry.“What? Explosives?” The bodyguard was shocked. Without saying another word, he immediately turned and ran toward the villa.Just as the bodyguard ran in, Howard managed to catch up to her.“F*ck! Come back here!” Howard snarled at the bodyguard.He glanced at the time and was no longer in a hurry. Instead, he sneered and said, “Hah! It’s useless. Even if he goes in now to pass the message, it’s too late… The time is almost up.”When Sharon heard this, there was a sharp twist in her heart. Her breathing became more frenetic
While Howard was still arguing with Sharon, she took out a knife that she had been carrying with her and approached Howard from behind.Without so much as another blink, Xena stabbed her knife into him from behind!“You! You killed Simon! Since you took his life, I’m taking yours!” Xena’s eyes were scarlet at the moment, filled with murderous intent.Sharon was so petrified that she stopped moving and looked at the pool of blood on the ground. It was Howard’s blood.Everything happened too quickly. She had not recovered from the grief of Simon’s murder yet she had to witness Xena killing Howard right before her very eyes…Howard’s hands that were grabbing onto her ultimately loosened. She glanced at his face that was losing its colors just for a second before turning around and running toward the villa again!She was only thinking of Simon at the moment. As for Howard, she could not care less about whatever was going to happen to him.“Shar…” Howard reached out and tried to pull
Sharon was extremely unhappy at Eugene’s words. Her face turned cold as she pushed him away.“Forget it. If you’re not planning on helping me, I’ll do it myself!” She continued to pick up the rubble with her blood-stained hands.Eugene felt his heart aching for her and he grabbed her hands again. He angrily reprimanded, “Enough! Why are you doing this? Truthfully, Simon would be better off dead! Have you forgotten the way he hurt you?!”He had no clue that whatever Simon had done was all due to Howard’s little schemes. He genuinely believed that Simon married another woman to humiliate Sharon as it was part of his plans to take revenge on her.“No… He didn’t try to hurt me on purpose…” Sharon wanted to explain it to him but found that she had completely lost her strength.She tried flinging his hands away once again. “Forget it. Leave me alone. I can do it myself.” She did not have much time to explain things to him at the moment.She got up and wanted to search for Simon in anot
“Wipe your tears away. I’ll take you there. Stop crying now. You’ll cry yourself blind at this point,” said Eugene as he pretended to be somewhat fierce.Eugene brought her to the collapsed villa and found that the search and rescue team was still around, looking for survivors. A lot of people had been found by now, but… most of them were dead.Those people included Simon’s bodyguards as well as Howard’s men and servants.However, there were still a few who were alive. However, all of them were severely wounded and had to be immediately taken to the hospital upon being rescued.Sharon almost fainted upon witnessing such a ghastly sight, and her heart tightened up fiercely.“Simon… Where are you?” Could he still be underneath?Soon after they arrived, the captain of the rescue team said to his team of rescuers, “The search and rescue work is over!”Sharon looked at the captain in bewilderment and asked anxiously, “It’s over? You haven’t found him, so how could it be over?”The c
After the search and rescue team left, Eugene got other people to come over to have a look around the area once more due to Sharon’s insistence.He did not have the heart to watch her cry so sorrowfully. What was the need to be so upset over such a man?Even if the explosion had truly killed Simon, it was because of a dispute that occurred among the Zacharies anyway. She was merely their victim.“We’ve searched everywhere, President Eugene. But we couldn’t find anyone…” Wyatt reported. Eugene looked at Sharon and shrugged helplessly. “Did you hear that?”“No one? But what about Simon? Where did he go?” She simply could not believe that he would die just like that.“I don’t know what else to tell you.” He was about to say that Simon had probably disintegrated into ashes, but he had to change his words for fear of stimulating her further.Sharon was still holding onto that wedding ring in her hand. She felt somewhat lightheaded now and was almost unable to stand on her feet. If
At that time, the rescue team had arrived with the ambulance, so Howard was taken to the hospital as well. It was not determined whether he had survived the stab wound.However, when Xena heard the sound of the police car’s siren, she immediately became terrified. She thought that the police had come over to catch her, so she fled in a panic.She hid nearby for nearly one day and one night, only daring to show herself after the rescue team and police officers left. When Penelope saw her in this state, she felt nothing but heartache and went to pull her over.“What’s the matter with you, Xena? How did you become like this?” In Penelope’s heart, Xena was still her sister-in-law.However, it was as if Xena could no longer recognize Penelope and immediately pushed her away. Then, she went on to move the concrete on the side while calling out, “I’ll save you, Simon…”“Xena!” Penelope grabbed her and forced Xena to look at her. Then, she said solemnly, “Look at me! It’s me, Penelope!”
Xena kept denying that she had hired people to kidnap Sebastian, but the police had evidence in their hands. They were confident that she was the one who did it with the evidence in hand.Xena finally broke down and confessed upon seeing the evidence. Adding to the crime that she had stabbed Howard with a knife, it was inevitable for her to be convicted. As Sebastian’s mom, Sharon was also called into the police station to cooperate with the investigation.Now that everything had come to light, even Penelope’s big shot lawyer could no longer protect Xena.“Xena, tell us. Why did you hire a kidnapper to kidnap Sebastian? He’s just a child. What kind of resentment could you possibly harbor toward a kid?” Penelope was extremely disappointed with her over this matter.In any case, Sebastian was still the Zachary family’s flesh and blood. Especially now that Simon had been murdered, the Zacharies were left with only one male heir!No matter how much Penelope disliked Sebastian, she s