Chapter 1670
Everyone watched him walk away. The palpable tension seemed to thicken, hanging heavy in the
air.
Damon sat motionless, and his lips were pressed into a thin line.
Chloe held the apple Damon had just given her. Juice trickled through her fingers, but she was at a
loss for words. She was usually adept at diffusing ufortable situations or finding solutions, but
this time, she felt out of her depth.
Matters of the heart were never her strong suit. She had seen Stanley''s emotional outburst and
didn''t know how to pretend it hadn''t happened. She had no idea how to face Stanley, let alone how
to exin the situation to Damon..
Promises made so earnestly were broken just as easily. She didn''t want to hurt Stanley, but she was
completely clueless about what to do.
She took a bite of the apple, and her expression was still stricken. Her mind was filled with the look
on Stanley''s face, something she had never seen before.
Damon watched her from the corner of his eye, realizing that his presence was not reflected in her
current state of mind. His heart tightened. He had only said those things to make Stanley give up on
Chloe, but now, it seemed to have backfired.
“What are you thinking about?" His voice, deep and icy cold, broke the silence.
Chloe blinked, turning to look at him. Aplex emotion flickered in her eyes.
Damon''s face darkened. Chloe ced the apple on the coffee table, using a napkin to wipe her
hand. She sank back into the couch.
"No... nothing."
In this world, there were some things that, no matter how much you pondered over, you could never
find a perfect solution. Even a near-perfect solution wouldn''t cut it. The only answer was how selfish
you truly were.
Damon watched her silently for a while. Even though he knew she was troubled, he still didn''t know
what to say.
After a long pause, he finally stood up and ordered Nate, "Get ready. We''re heading back to the city
tomorrow."
"Yes, sir!"
Nate quickly acknowledged Damon. Sensing the chilly atmosphere, he hesitated before asking, "Sir,
about Ms.
Alonso''s situation, what are our ns once we return to the city?"
Damon contemted for a moment before responding, "She''s dead."
Nate nced at Chloe before nodding. "Understood."
Wendy was dead.
She died in the gray zone on the outskirts of P City, a ce everyone avoided.
By the time Chloe and the others returned to P City the next day, this news had already exploded in
the media.
No one had any sympathy for Wendy''s death. She had brought it upon herself, not respecting
others’ lives. She was the one who started the kidnapping, so why would anyone feel sorry for her
when she ended up dead?
Chloe didn''t expect Daron to blow up the situation like this. She thought it would only be revealed if
someone asked. But now, it was clear that Damon had deliberately stirred up the incident. She
didn''t know what he was up to, but she didn''t bother to find out either. With him handling the
aftermath, she didn''t need to worry.
However...
With one Wendy gone, there would be another Wendy...
Not long after they returned, Yasmine and the others were confirmed to be safe, Cole and Grace
immediately
came to visit.
The media and the Alonso family currently surrounded the Harper family''s mansion. Presley made a
call and summoned Damon and Chloe back.
Right now, the Harper family was inplete chaos. Grace sat in the yard of the mansion, holding
a newspaper, crying, and screaming.
Presley stood on the side with a cane. His face was ashen, and his muscles were trembling
intermittently. He red furiously at the two arriving with a bunch of bodyguards.
Grace saw the two of them and immediately got up from the ground, rushing towards Damon. "Tell
me! Where did you hide my daughter? How could she possibly be dead? Did you hide her?!"
Grace was stopped by two bodyguards two meters away from him. "Damon, give me back my
daughter!
Bastard! What did my daughter do to you for you to be so heartless?!"
Chloe frowned, and as expected, she couldn''t stand to see Damon being “bullied.” "Your daughter is
truly dead."
She used the simplest words to hurt Grace.
Grace abruptly looked up at her. Her eyes were filled with rage, looking just like Wendy''s crazed
expression.
"Vou.
“That''s right, it''s me." She admitted in a light tone, shocking everyone around her with her
indifference toward a human life. "If I could, I would want to feed her a few more bullets. I shouldn''t
have let her die so easily!"
Grace swayed, her eyes rolling back as she almost fainted. “You..."
"I''ve always said, don''t provoke me. If you don’t mess with me, we can coexist peacefully. Before
you came here to demand the Harper family for your daughter, you should know that she was the
one who kidnapped my mother first. She took my mother to such a dangerous ce and lured me
there with the intention of taking our lives. Now, she''s only reaping what she sowed"
She left everyone speechless with her words. Grace''s face was ghastly. Her lips were trembling,
and she didn''t know what to say.
The pain of losing a child was not something one could fake, but that didn''t mean she deserved
sympathy.
"Is she really dead? Did you really kill her?"
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Grace still found it hard to grasp the reality of the situation. After all, without witnessing it herself, it
seemed unfathomable that her daughter could have met such a fate while everyone else seemed to
be just fine.
"Damon, this can''t be happening, can it?" She implored. “No matter what she did wrong, it was
because she cared for you, right? You grew up together, you wouldn''t just stand by and watch her
get killed, would you?"
Damon''s response was chilling. “She deserved what she got."
"But you two was still alive. Even if you wanted to punish her, why did it have to end this way..."
“Ms. Grace,’ Chloe cut her off. “It was your daughter who dragged me into this deadly game. If she
hadn''t died, it would have been me and my mother instead! You''d better get clear about the stakes
here."