"Why do you have a gun? And how did you get here so quickly?"


    Kace didn’t bother to hide the gun since Allison had already seen him use it.


    It turned out that when he got the beep on his wristwatch, which came from Allison’s wristwatch, he noticed she was heading to the area where he was already. Silverwood.


    "Is this your girl?"


    Both of them suddenly heard the voice of a man d in a ck suit with a gigantic height.


    Allison knew she was short, but standing next to the man before her made her feel downright tiny. Compared to his towering frame, she might as well have been the height of an ant.


    Kace was already taller than her with almost a foot, but Xavier was so towering tall, that she had to crane her neck to look up at him.


    "Not at all, sir...."


    Xavier’s gaze flickered from Kace to Allison whom he recognized to be Anastasia’s makeup artist.


    "Your arms are bleeding. Kace, take her to the medic to get her injuries treated before it gets infected. I will have the others take care of the bodies here," Xavier said.


    Allison stared at both Kace and Xavier, wondering what they could both be doing there.


    From where she stood, she could see some women being taken to arge van, and her eyes didn’t miss the guns the other men were carrying, including Xavier himself.


    She gave Kace a questionable look, but he only smiled at her but didn’t exin anything.


    Gently, he took her to the same van where those girls were taken to get treated.


    When Allison saw the girls, their eyes were so shallow and empty that, for a moment, she almost mistook them for lifeless dolls. There was something haunting about their vacant expressions, as if the spark of life had been drained from them. It didn’t escape her notice that they looked younger than her.


    What shocked her the most was when she saw a nine-year-old, having the same expression as the ones who looked older. However, they still looked like teenagers.


    Allison wanted to talk to them, but she stopped when she noticed their bodies shaking under the nket they’d used to wrap around their bodies to prevent them from the chilling night wind.


    She looked down at Kace who was bringing out a first aid kit.


    As if feeling her gaze, he raised his head to look up at her.


    "Don’t worry, I will tell you everythingter. For now, there’s nothing you should be afraid of."


    He dabbed some cotton wool into the spirit bottle before cing it on her bruises.


    "I didn’t know you could fight so well. You took three guys down so easily," heplimented.


    "I had to. I wasn’t some kind of property to be sold," she said.


    Kace’s hands paused on her wrist.


    "Tell me what happened!!"


    Allison sighed before she parted her lips to exin to Kace everything that had happened that day. How her father had sold her to some gang in exchange for some money. And then Olivia meddles by luring her away. And then how she’d managed to fight her way out before he shot the collector.


    After speaking, Allison could see his jaws clench tightly.


    "It’s a good thing you’re safe. I’ll take care of the rest," he assured her as he continued to nurse her wounds.


    When he was done, he handed her a nket, gave her a cup of hot chocte to keep her warm, and patted her head like a child before he left.


    "I want to kill someone tonight," Kace vented as soon as he reached where Xavier was together with their men, inspecting the house they’d just intruded to make sure there was no victim they’d missed.


    "You’ve killed a whole lot of people tonight, Kace. How many more do you want to kill?" Xavier asked him, his eyes under a shabby bed made of wood, making sure no kid hid under it due to the loud gunshots that had been fired earlier.


    "I want to kill someone in particr," Kace said, following behind Xavier and doing the same.


    Xavier stopped in his tracks, turned to face Kace with a cocked go eyebrow.


    "You sound mad," he stated. "Hmm...if you’re that mad about this person, and you’re sure they did you wrong. Go ahead and kill them," he finished.


    "I want to kill Franco Quinn, Allison’s father. Can you believe he sold Allison just to pay his debt?"


    Xavier paused in his tracks again, looking very confused.


    "He sold her to the human trafficking ring?" He asked. "Intentionally."


    "I honestly don’t know if he thought women are treated like princesses over here, but he has crossed the line this time."


    Kace found it hard to control his rage at that moment. He couldn’t help but wonder what would have happened if he’d been any secondte.