Awakening Love Reborn to Be His Duchess (Elowen Hale) novel Chapter 670

Chapter 670 Side by Side

Draven reacted instently.

The moment Scarlet called the warning, he pivoted without hesitation and drove his sword hard toward the assassin’s exposed side,

The man failed to defend himself in time.

A strangled cry escaped him before he collapsed heavily onto the stones.

“He’s aiming for your left shoulder!

“Back up. He’s reaching for a throwing knife!”

Scarlet continued calling out warning after warning while Draven adjusted perfectly to every single one, his movements syncing with her voice so naturally that it felt as though the two of them had fought together countless times before.

In truth, they had never stood side by side in battle even once.

Yet now their coordination fit together flawlessly.

One assassin after another fell beneath Draven’s blade.

Though he gradually gained control of the fight, fresh wounds still continued appearing across his body.

One.

Then another.

Then several more.

But he barely seemed aware of them.

He no longer felt tired. Barely even felt pain.

At one point, an absurd thought suddenly crossed his mind. If only there were more of them.

If the assassins kept coming, then this moment could last a little longer.

Even if all he could do was fight with his back toward Scarlet while listening to her voice calling warnings behind him like “Left side!” or “Watch your shoulder!” it already felt like enough.

More than enough.

But the instant that thought distracted him, everything changed.

One of the assassins suddenly noticed Scarlet standing nearby.

Without warning, the man abandoned the fight entirely and charged straight toward her.

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The Tanent Draven saw it, his expression changed completely.

Scarlet!”

e immediately turned toward her and tried to force his way through the remaining assassins.

if several of them threw themselves at him at once, trapping him where he stood.

ar could do was shout her name.

arlet saw the assassin rushing toward her and instinctively stumbled backward.

she had no martial training.

No strength.

No chance of outrunning a trained killer.

The assassin reached her in moments and raised his sword high.

Then suddenly, a thick wooden club came crashing down onto his head with a brutal crack.

The blow struck hard enough to send him staggering sideways.

“That’s cheating!”

Mira’s furious voice immediately followed behind it.

“If you’re jealous she’s helping from the sidelines, maybe find your own strategist!”

The absurdity of the moment snapped Scarlet out of her panic.

Her gaze darted downward. A sword lay abandoned near her feet.

Without wasting another second, she grabbed it.

She had no idea how to properly wield a blade, and she certainly lacked the strength to kill anyone with it. but she remembered enough of Draven’s movements from moments earlier to imitate them clumsily.

Gripping the hilt with both hands, she thrust awkwardly toward the assassin’s wrist.

The blade pierced flesh.

The assassin cried out in pain, and the sword in his hand clattered onto the stones.

Mira understood immediately.

She swung the club again with every ounce of strength she had left and smashed it against the assassin’s

skull a second time.

The impact

The ass

on before.

he finally collapsed unconscious onto the ground.

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Chapter 676 Side by Side

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Scarlet’s hands still trembled violently around the sword hilt while she struggled to catch her breath.

Mira looked no better.

She was shaking so badly she could barely hold onto the club anymore and ended up leaning weakly against the carriage for support.

“Did… did we kill him?” she asked shakily.

Scarlet stared down at the unmoving body and swallowed hard. “I… I don’t know.”

By then, Draven had already dealt with the remaining assassins.

Ignoring the exhaustion threatening to give out beneath him, he staggered only once before hurrying straight toward Scarlet.

He arrived just in time to hear her answer.

“Not dead,” he said roughly between breaths. “Still hanging on.”

As he spoke, he raised his sword toward the assassin’s throat.

“Commander Hall!” Mira hurriedly shouted. “Leave one alive! His Grace and Her Grace can still find out who sent them!”

Draven paused briefly before lowering the blade again.

Then he bent down calmly and dislocated the assassin’s jaw instead.

“This way he won’t be able to bite through poison.”/

Only after finishing that did he finally turn properly toward Scarlet.

“Are you hurt?”

Scarlet dropped the sword from her trembling hands before shaking her head weakly. “No…. I’m fine.”

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But the moment she looked at him clearly, her breath caught.

His clothes were soaked with blood.

The wound along his left arm looked the worst, blood still steadily seeping through the torn fabric while the hand gripping the sword trembled faintly from strain.

Scarlet’s chest tightened painfully.

Instinctively, she wanted to help him.

But she had nothing.

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