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The government believes that the Nightingale clan and the Gray Wolfe are conspiring together, and the Nightingale clan believes the same to be true for the Gray Wolfe and the government.
Meanwhile, the Gray Wolfe was divided in two, with the half being led by Sanders now only barely holding onto some semblance of control within the organization.
Of course, unlike their so-called father, both Ginny and Jasper were well aware of the situation. But because of their agreement with the White Deer, they could only sit back and allow the misunderstandings to continue.
After all, if they came out to clarify things and Emilia’s spies discovered it, wouldn’t they just be nominating themselves to be the latest additions to her hit list?
Given how low even their seemingly invincible father had fallen now after crossing her, they weren’t foolish enough to give it a try.
It was better to just let Emilia play around and have fun while taking a few losses. The little beauty will sooner or later get bored and leave soon anyway, and it wouldn’t be too late to start expanding their operations at that time… or at least they hoped so.
Unfortunately, just because they wanted to stay out of trouble and wait quietly didn’t mean that trouble wouldn’t come seeking them first.
The twins were just getting out of their office on Friday evening, with Jasper opening the passenger door of the car for his sister with an exasperated eye roll. “Honestly, Ginny, I don’t see why you have to go so hard on those old bastards right away. Instead of risking making them panic, isn’t it better to slowly grind them to—!”
A loud bang interrupted his words as Jasper froze in shock, and it took him what felt like an eternity to realize that the sound was indeed that of a gunshot, and the target… was him.
‘ᴡ ᴏᴠʟ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛʀs ᴀʀ ᴘᴜʙʟsʜᴅ ᴏ NovelFull. ’,
Fortunately, the shooter seemed to have missed him by quite some distance, and aside from nauseatingly sharp ringing in his eardrums, Jasper was completely fine.
Slamming the door shut on his similarly stunned sister’s face, Jasper quickly ran to the driver’s seat while covering his head with his arms, desperately hoping that the next two shots he heard hadn’t ended up in his body without him realizing it. “Holy fuck! Which piece of shit decided to go crazy today?!”
By the time he closed the car’s door, he’d already heard another six rounds of fire, though fortunately without any ‘impact’ on his body.
He didn’t know what was crazier, the fact that the two of them were being ‘assassinated’ in their own building’s supposedly safe parking lot, or that their ‘assassins’ seemed to have received special training on how to miss every single shot.
‘Shit! I can’t believe not one of those bullets hit me!’
Of course, he didn’t have time to pay attention to his screeching and panicking twin sister, and simply yelled at her to shut the fuck up as he slammed the accelerator to get the fuck out of there as soon as possible.
The car might be bulletproof, but he wasn’t interested in trying to prove it.
Jasper’s face turned even paler when two men in ski masks tried to jump in front of his car in an attempt to get him to stop, and several bullets were lodged into both the windshield and the driver window.
Had the glass not been bulletproof, they would have definitely gone right through his skull!
Now fully convinced of the skill of the attackers, Jasper didn’t dare to slow down at all, and even tried to run over the two men on his way out, though unfortunately they managed to dodge out of the way in time while cursing and firing additional shots his way.
By this time, Ginny had also forcefully calmed herself down and picked up her phone with her shivering hands. Of course, when she tried to speak, she realized that not only was her throat hoarse from all the screaming, but her tongue also seemed to be stuck. “…!”
‘ᴜᴘᴅᴀᴛ ꜰʀᴏᴍ AllNovelFull. .’,
This wasn’t the first time she and her brother had been in a desperate situation, but it was their still their first brush with imminent death.
In fact, it was only after her brother slammed the door shut in her face after that first gunshot that she realized how little all the money and power they had been so desperate for actually mattered.
Those few short seconds it took Jasper to run around as bullets continued raining and get into the driver seat were the same as soaking her in the coldest parts of a frozen lake, and for the first time in her life, Ginny found herself at a complete and total loss.
It was only after Jasper made it in that she was able to breathe again, but the panic attack still made it impossible for her to make any intelligible sound.
Ginny almost wanted to tear her disobedient tongue out and stomp it into mush, but luckily, the person who picked up her phone already seemed to know what was going on.
“Miss, don’t worry, we heard the gunshots and are on our way there, hold on for just a few more seconds!”
Had she been more clear-headed, Ginny would also have realized that since the gunshots weren’t silenced, their people were probably already aware of the problem before Jasper even got into the car, and help would arrive quite soon.
As it was, however, even after hearing the man’s assurance, Ginny still couldn’t completely calm down.
While Jasper was driving wildly to get them out of the parking lot safely, paranoid thoughts were running wild in Ginny’s head. ‘How could these people make it all the way here without anyone noticing? It’s impossible!’
Clearly, someone on the inside must have helped them out, and since that was so…
Did she have to gamble their lives away just to test the loyalty of these people?
Her hands seemed to have made the decision before her brain, and Ginny found herself calling a number she’d had for a while, but never dared to dial.
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