Five Years Wasted Now They Beg Her Back novel Chapter 139

Damien was on his way home with Grace when he got the call.

It was Felix.

“Mr. Clarke, there’s been an incident.”

“Caleb… the bodyguard you assigned to Ms. Hart, was in a car accident.”

“The perpetrator was Lilian. She stole a truck and attempted murder.”

“Caleb is in critical condition and currently in surgery. Lilian… has shattered fractures in both legs. She might never walk again.”

Damien’s expression turned glacially cold in an instant.

He glanced at Grace in the passenger seat, whose face had gone pale after hearing the phone call.

An endless wave of fear washed over him.

If he hadn’t insisted on picking her up today.

If she had been the one sitting in that car…

He couldn’t bear to imagine it.

He slammed on the brakes, pulling the car over to the side of the road. Unbuckling his seatbelt, he pulled Grace into a tight embrace.

“Grace…”

His voice was trembling.

Grace could clearly feel his heart pounding against her.

She was scared, too.

But right now, her heart ached more for the man holding her.

She raised a hand and gently patted his back.

“I’m okay.”

“Damien, I’m right here. I’m okay.”

News that Lilian’s attempted murder had failed, leaving her crippled instead, quickly reached the Hart family and Ethan.

Mr. Hart fainted on the spot.

The Hart brothers were plunged into total despair.

They knew this had crossed Damien’s line.

Ethan sat in his office, listening to his assistant’s report in a long silence.

He just found the whole situation absurd and disgusting.

In a desperate attempt to win Grace back, the Hart family and Ethan made a decision that shocked everyone.

Tired of seeing these disgusting people, of hearing about their disgusting affairs.

She looked up at Damien.

“Damien, help me erase the Hart family from Jarrow City. Completely.”

“Alright.”

Damien put down the soup bowl, cupped her face, and placed a gentle kiss on her lips.

“As you wish.”

In the days that followed, Jarrow City’s business community was hit by an unprecedented earthquake.

Under the swift and overwhelming assault from the Clarke family, the already teetering Hart Group didn’t even last a day before declaring bankruptcy.

All its assets were frozen, seized, and auctioned off.

Mr. Hart and his three sons fell from grace, saddled with an astronomical amount of debt.

They were evicted from their luxurious family estate and left homeless.

The Ward Group did not escape either.

Damien mobilized all his resources, strangling the Ward Group from its capital to its supply chain.