Chapter 447 A Hazard
Chapter 447 A Hazard
Panic nching her cheeks, Jade tried to summon her men.
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Mosty groaning on the ground; the few still conscious had neither strength nor courage to
rise.
“D–Don’t be rash! If you pull that trigger, the Rowley family will see you dead before you cross the border!” The threat trembled even as it left her lips.
Julius kept the rifle steady. “Whether I leave Celosia isn’t your family’s decision. But you- you’re a hazard I won’t allow to linger.”
The memory of the recent firestorm that had nearly imed Quinn shed behind his eyes, fanning the colder rage in his veins.
He wanted her safe and sound; he wouldn’t allow anyone to touch her.
Jade longed to run, but her legs felt like they were made from lead. At this range, even an air rifle could punch through flesh and bone.
“Wait–please! Spare me and I’ll pay anything, everything!” Her tone copsed into begging, all earlier arrogance scrubbed clean.
Julius‘ face did not twitch; his finger tightened on the trigger.
Jade shrieked, squeezing her eyes shut. “No! Don’t!”
Silence followed; the expected pain never arrived.
Jade forced her trembling eyelids apart. The world snapped into focus just in time to see Quinn’s slim fingers curl around Julius‘ trigger hand, halting the gun a breath before it spat death.
“Don’t, Julius. There’s no sense in courting trouble over a woman like her.” Quinn’s voice was low yet firm, the kind one uses to pull a loved one back from a ledge.
“I don’t care,” Julius answered, voice t as steel. “If the Rowley heiress thinks she can drag the Whitethorn name into scandal, she’s sorely out <i>of </i>her league.”
“But I care,” Quinn insisted, stepping closer, blocking the muzzle with nothing but her body and conviction. “I won’t watch you ruin yourself for my sake. Whether she dies or only <i>gets </i>wounded, thew wille for you.”
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She knew Julius possessed a hundred paths to slip any penalty, yet she refused to let even one smear stain the hands she loved.
“She wants your life,” Julius growled, as though that single fact granted him every right to take
hers.
“Do you truly think my life is so easily imed?” Quinn lifted her chin. “Even if she wants me dead, desire alone won’t give her the skill.”
“Even a one–in–ten–thousand chance is too high,” he muttered. He feared waking to an empty world, feared the day Quinn vanished without a trace.
Julius‘ obstinacy unfolded before Quinn like a storm cloud, darker andrger than she had ever pictured.
That he would contemte murder over a single vicious remark left her reeling.
“Punish the Rowleys if you must–there are other ways,” she said, her gaze steady. “I don’t want blood on your hands. Call me na?ve or foolish, but the lessons drilled into me since childhood won’t allow it.”
She eased her fingers over the cold barrel, gently prying the weapon from Julius‘ sp as though untangling a thorn from flesh.
“Julius, I never want your palms drenched in blood because of me. If that woman trulyes for my life, I’ll im hers myself,” she said.
With the words still hanging, Quinn cast Jade a sidelong nce sharp enough to draw a cut.
<i>“</i><i>Y</i>–Yes! I swear I’ll never do anything to you guys again, especially toward thedy!” Jade stammered, knees trembling so hard they nearly knocked together.
Pride evaporated when a trigger hovered inches from her chest; survival, she realized, mattered far more.
The handsome veneer on that man masked pure lunacy–of that, Jade was now painfully
certain.
<i>What </i><i>madness </i><i>possessed </i><i>me </i>to <i>ever </i><i>fancy </i><i>such </i>a man? She wanted to p herself awake.
Quinn nodded, satisfied with Jade’s surrender. “Believe me, Julius–I told you, <i>I’ll </i>outlive you.”
Only then did his knuckle–whitened grip ease, finger uncurling from the trigger by slow degrees.
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“The Rowleys will still pay,” Julius said, his voice a drawn de.
“Fine by me,” Quinn answered without hesitation.
With Julius‘ reach, forcing a Celosian conglomerate to its knees was no herculean task.
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“Let’s head back to the hotel. I’m a bit tired,” she said, threading her fingers through his.
“Very well,” Julius replied. He motioned for two bodyguards to remain behind and handle the aftermath.