My Second Marriage with the Mafia Kingpin novel Chapter 205

Chapter 205: The Black Dragon Is Here!

"Where the heck is the boat?!"

Ashley’s voice rang across the open cargo area, momentarily stilling everyone even as the sound of gunfire lingered in the air.

Now that she was fully visible, Rus finally noticed how out of breath she was. Her hair was disheveled as if she had just crawled out of a catfight. A crumpled white tissue was stuffed into one of her nostrils, stained with blood.

"Shit," she breathed out heavily as she yanked the tissue free to stop the nosebleed.

Her eyes searched for Rus before sweeping over the armed men taking cover from her sudden assault. The situation alone already told her that Rus had cornered himself.

"Can’t you see?!" Rus shouted back. "I’m trapped here!"

The anger that had been slowly consuming him earlier subsided slightly now that there were at least two of them.

But his relief didn’t last long.

"Well, you’re not the only one!" Ashley shouted while turning her head frantically. "Hey, you! Let’s switch opponents!"

Ashley winced when she spotted Carrot Man climbing onto one of the containers, followed by more armed men appearing from different directions.

"What?!" Rus shouted.

"Let’s switch opponents!" she yelled again before snapping her head toward Carrot Man. "Why are you still alive?! Leave me alone!"

Rus’s face twisted in confusion, unable to understand why she sounded so genuinely distressed.

Then he followed her line of sight and immediately realized something horrifying.

Ashley hadn’t come here to save him at all.

If anything, she had simply dragged another nightmare into the situation, and now both of them were cornered.

Rus gasped. "I... hate her."

Meanwhile, the man with the mole on his face furrowed his brows as he shifted his attention from Ashley toward the figures climbing onto the containers.

Then, atop one of them, he spotted the unmistakable bright orange hair.

Carrot Man’s expression twisted irritably.

Blood stained the corner of his mouth. Bruises had formed along his cheek, and a cut split through the edge of his brow.

What the mole-faced man couldn’t see from this angle, however, was the blood dripping down the side of Carrot Man’s head.

"C—"

"Shut up!" Carrot Man snapped before the other man could even start speaking, glaring at him furiously. "Stay out of this lovers’ quarrel!"

"You shut it!" Ashley shouted back in disgust. "Hey, Mole Guy! Let’s fight instead, okay? I don’t want to fight him! I give up!"

She pointed directly at Carrot Man while looking at the mole-faced man standing near Rus.

"Give that other dude to Carrot Man!"

Carrot Man?

Everyone furrowed their brows at the visibly distressed Ashley before slowly turning toward the orange-haired man.

And almost simultaneously, the exact same thought crossed their minds.

Was it because of his hair?

"I told you it’s not carrot-colored!" Carrot Man shouted indignantly. "My dear fiancée, it’s sports car orange!"

"I don’t want to hear another word!" Ashley screamed while covering her ears and shaking her head violently.

Everyone who had originally been chasing her paused awkwardly.

Even Rus’s expression twisted.

"What the fuck is wrong with those two?" he muttered before quickly snapping his attention back toward Mole Guy.

Taking advantage of the distraction, Rus cautiously stepped backward, only to freeze when Mole Guy casually slid his eyes toward him.

"Do you think I’m not paying attention just because I’m wondering what the hell happened between those two?" Mole Guy asked calmly while raising his gun toward Rus.

Seeing the muzzle aimed at him, Rus instinctively took another step back.

"So now that she’s here, you don’t need me anymore, huh?" he laughed bitterly, though deep down he already knew he was doomed. "Shit."

Just as Rus prepared to bolt, he caught the flash of a spark from Mole Guy’s muzzle. But at the same beat, another spark exploded beside it.

Rus flinched.

The bullet abruptly shifted off-course and slammed into the wall beside him instead.

Meanwhile, the pistol in Mole Guy’s hand flew from his grip.

"What?!" Rus blurted out while watching Mole Guy frown.

Both of them immediately turned toward where the shot had come from.

Their eyes landed on Ashley.

"I said... let’s switch," she breathed out heavily, fully aware these people wouldn’t dare kill her.

They needed her alive for something, and she had been gambling everything on that fact.

But Rus?

That protection didn’t apply to him.

Mole Guy frowned, but Carrot Man’s expression darkened even more.

"Why? Why? Why? Why do you hate me so much?!" Carrot Man cried dramatically. "Wait... are you and him... cheating on me?!"

"Yes, I am!" Ashley yelled back without hesitation. "So go kill my lover already, you psycho!"

Carrot Man’s face reddened as tears welled in his eyes. One tear slowly rolled down his cheek.

"I loved you with all my heart..." he whispered shakily. "But you chose to break it. Cruel. Love... is truly cruel."

"Fuck..." Ashley muttered under her breath.

She couldn’t hear whatever nonsense Carrot Man was mumbling from that distance, but she could definitely see the tear rolling down his face.

And honestly?

That somehow made everything worse.

As Ashley quickly assessed the situation around her, a growing sense of danger slowly pressed against her chest.

BANG!

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