402.Chapter 402


    Isabelle was stunned instantly upon hearing those words.


    Step by step, she retreated toward the mouth of the alley, her voice trembling as she asked, "W What do you mean? Didn''t you say my father paid you two thousand dors to escort me back to Hasen City?"


    "That''s right, Fletcher did pay us. But he also gave us another order," the man in ck said, his eyes cold as he saw through Isabelle''s movements and began walking toward her.


    "What order?" Isabelle asked, her gaze locked on him.


    "He said his daughter knows too much. So, Miss Henderson, you''d better keep your mouth shut forever, the man sneered.


    As soon as he said that, Isabelle turned and bolted without hesitation.


    But she had barely taken a few steps when several figures appeared at the alley''s exit, dressed identically to the man in ck. It was clear they were his aplices.


    Caught between a rock and a hard ce, Isabelle, who couldn''t leave the alley, had to stop.


    "Alright, it''s about time. If we drag this out any longer people from the Duke of Noganlul''s estate might catch up, one of the men said.


    "Do it," the leader ordered, and at hismand, the group immediately closed in on Isabelle,


    But in the next moment, Isabelle suddenly pulled something from her sleeve and swung it forcefully toward them.


    In the darkness, she scattered something into the air.


    Before these men could react, they clutched their throats, their eyes wide as blood spilled from their mouths. One by one, they copsed to the ground.


    In mere moments, these men died.


    "You even brought poison!" The ck-d man behind Isabelle froze in shock, not expecting her toe prepared.


    He drew his sword in a sh and shed at Isabelle.


    Isabelle scrambled backward to dodge, but her foot caught on the corpses littering the ground. She stumbled and fell, narrowly avoiding a fatal strike. Still, the de managed to graze her arm, leaving a stinging wound.


    "Ouch!" She let out a pained grunt, her eyes shing with fury


    Before that man could react, she grabbed another handful of the poisonous powder and flung it at him.


    But this time, he was prepared. The moment Isabelle moved, he stepped back swiftly, dodging the powder.


    He said, "You still want to use that trick? You must be courting-"


    Before he could finish his sentence, a gleaming dagger sliced through the cloud of powder and plunged into his abdomen: 1 came prepared with more than just poison," Isabelle said coldly.


    The man coughed up blood, his eyes wide with disbelief as he stared at Isabelle.


    He hadn''t expected his group to fall into the hands of a mere girl.


    "When did you..." he asked.


    "Are you asking when I figured it out?" Isabelle asked.


    She tightened her grip on the dagger and twisted it mercilessly. A cruel smile yed on her lips as she continued, "The moment you sent me that note in my father''s name, you gave yourselves away.


    "My father''s never been one to pay for me. He''s only ever sold me out. If he suddenly spent money because of me, it meant he was paying others to kill me, not to save me.


    "You are nothing more than pawns my cunning father bought for two thousand dors. He sent you to test me. If I survived,


    meant I still had value. If I died, it meant I was worthless. And such a solution was indeed an idea that a person as insidious and vicious as my father coulde up with."


    As Isabelle''s wordsid bare the brutal truth, the ck-d man could only die


    with unwillingness etched across his face. "ng!" The dagger hit the ground, and Isabelle also nearly copsed alongside it,


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