“Pull yourself together, d*mn it! What would you do if you went right now?! Are you going to blow all those b*st*rds up along with Averie?!” Mike roared through reddened eyes. “I don’t care who’s having their way with her right now. I just want her to stay alive!”
Elyette landed a hard punch on Mike’s face.
Mike licked the blood from the corner of his lips, then returned the blow!
Just like that, the two men fell into a fierce fistfight!
“F*ck! There are more than a dozen backup generators on that mountain! If we barge in right now without cutting their power off, do you think you’ll kill the enemy, or end up watching as they kill Averie with your own eyes?!” Mike snapped furiously.
Elyette had him pinned down and he had no chance of fighting back.
The strength of a crazed man was wild and terrifying!
However, Mike did not stop talking.
“Pull yourself together! Is Averie’s life or her virtue more important?!”
The force of Elyette’s arm on Mike’s throat relaxed slightly.
Mike had underestimated him!
It was not Averie’s virtue that he cared about, but her shattered pride!
For someone as spirited as her, being forcefully assaulted would turn into a lifelong trauma!
The thought of something like this affecting Averie for the rest of her life made Elyette unable to control himself.
“I talked about it to her on the plane,” Mike explained. “The moment the power goes out where she is will be the signal that we’ve come to save her. She’ll find a place to hide during the frenzy, and we’ll rescue her once we’re done dealing with the enemy!”
“If we don’t cut their power and mess up their internal operations, then they will definitely use her as a hostage to threaten us!”
At the White Mansion, Averie’s voice died down the moment the video call ended.
When she stopped crying and struggling, David’s interest waned.
He was doing this to make Averie his.
Making her his woman was the only way to make her stay willingly!
He had made the video call because he found out that Elyette Foster was Averie’s man.
After seeing her be dishonored, he would definitely not want her anymore.
“Why aren’t you screaming anymore? You’re not seriously thinking that man is coming to save you, right?” David chuckled and tapped on Averie’s cold face. “Do you know how many hidden soldiers I have around my mansion on this mountain? Nobody’s getting here without my permission!”
“How long has your daughter been dead?” Averie asked as she stared coldly at him.
Elyette’s voice kept replaying in her head.
She did not see his face in the video call, but he heard the sound of him choking on his tears.
She had planned to face her death at dawn, but she changed her mind now.
David did not expect her question. He thought for a moment, then answered, “Thirteen years this year.”
“I can bring her back.” Averie gazed at him calmly as she uttered unbelievable words. “I have an exclusive remedy that we could try. I can’t guarantee its success, but there’s a huge chance.”
David’s instincts told him that she was lying, and his expression was one of shock and rage as he snapped, “That’s not what you said this morning!”
“What are you afraid of? Even if Elyette comes, wouldn’t he just be walking to his death?! Or were you just talking big just now?” Averie tried to provoke him. “If I can’t bring your daughter back to life, then I’ll stay with you for the rest of my life!”
David did not expect her to shoot her mouth off like this.
He nonchalantly got off of her, but his eyes looked her up and down sleazily.
“You’re not my type at all! If you can’t bring my daughter back, then I’ll just give you to my men! They’ll definitely show you the consequences of lying to me!”
Averie closed her opened shirt, then held back her tears and said coldly, “We need to defrost your daughter right now!”
The power to the ice room was cut off, and the refrigeration system stopped working
“This would take too long! Should we use a dryer?!” David said impatiently as he stood next to the ice casket..
Averie was sitting next to the ice casket, and her eyes were icy as she said, “No! We need to defrost her naturally. Otherwise, sudden heat would cause the corpse to immediately start to rot!”
David gritted his teeth and glared frustratedly at Averie.
“If you can’t bring my daughter back to life once the defrosting is over, then you can just look forward to being ruined by my men!”
Averie’s eyes were bloodshot, and she was shivering from the cold air emanating from the ice casket.
She wondered if she would die from the cold before the corpse was done defrosting.
It was close to sunrise, and Elyette had lost the opportunity to move before dawn.
According to their plan, moving in at night was better for both their success rate and Averie’s safety.
Mike had guaranteed the night before that he would be able to cut off all the power at the mansion by midnight, but he had broken his word!
Elyette pulled out a handgun and placed the barrel against Mike’s temple.
“If anything happens to Averie, you’re paying for it with your life!”
“Go on, then! You might as well just f*cking kill me now to pay for her life!”
Mike had spent the past two nights without sleep, and he was on the brink of a breakdown.
As Eliot saw the tears welling up in Mike’s pale blue eyes, his grip on the handgun loosened.
“What are you crying for? Do you think Averie’s already dead?” Elyette croaked, his voice was low and had a hint of his own uncertainty.
Mike buried his face in his hands and burst into tears.
“I regret it! Why did I say those cruel words to her last night?!”
Elyette’s eyes welled up in tears at the thought of what happened the night before.
“She was helpless and scared. Even if we couldn’t go save her right away, I shouldn’t have said that! She must have felt so hopeless after hearing what I said…” Mike was racked with guilt and could not control his emotions.
Elyette’s Adam’s apple bobbed in his throat and he said hoarsely, “Stop crying! Are you done cracking the system?”
Mike wiped his tears away, then glanced at the progress bar on his computer screen.
“Almost … It’ll be done before noon. My head hurts. What would I do if Averie’s really dead?”
Elyette did not have the courage to think of that possibility.
“How about you go home and take a shower?” Mike saw the stubble growing on Elyette’s chin and figured that he was probably hurting more than himself.
It was because Averie was still carrying his child.
Elyette stood still in a daze as if he did not hear what Mike said.
“Go back and check on Shea and the kids,” Mike said in a louder voice.
Elyette finally reacted and said, “Fine.”
When he walked to the door, Mike sighed and said, “Are you thinking of bringing that gun back with you? Averie’s definitely alive! She’s strong, and she won’t die until she watches Grimes die a violent death!”
Elyette placed the gun down on the table, then walked out of the room.
Averie’s house in Bridgedale was located in the city’center’s wealthy neighborhood.
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