My Second Marriage with the Mafia Kingpin novel Chapter 212

Chapter 212: iPad Kid?

Meanwhile, outside the private ward, guards were stationed at every corner of the floor. Even outside the facility, Dominion had everything covered. Every doctor and nurse entering or leaving the room was checked thoroughly, and even the medicine being brought in underwent inspection.

Ashley had been taken right from under their noses.

They would not make the same mistake again.

Down the hallway on the same floor, Rum sat slouched on a steel bench.

"Ugh..." he groaned, exhaustion written all over his face. "Why did it end so quickly?"

Vodka, his partner for the day, glanced at him sideways.

"If the big boss hears you saying that, he’s going to skin you alive."

"Don’t go wishing the battle lasted longer," he continued. "She’s already in there injured. If things had dragged on any further, you might as well start picking out your funeral clothes."

Rum clicked his tongue and lazily shifted his gaze toward Vodka.

It had been a long time since he’d seen real action, which explained his excitement. Even so, he had no interest in seeing Ashley or Lucian get hurt just to satisfy it.

Leaning his head back, he drawled, "You think Tank and Red got that guy to talk yet?"

Red and Tank weren’t present because they had other matters to deal with. Specifically, interrogating the sole survivor they had brought back from the ship.

Dominion had wiped out every other enemy.

They only kept one alive for questioning.

There had been a strict time limit the moment they boarded the ship, and their priority from the start had been extracting Ashley. Once she was safe, everyone had been ordered to retreat before sinking the vessel. Since the cargo ship had already been burning when they arrived, letting it drag the remaining enemies down with it hadn’t been an issue.

"Red said it himself," Vodka shrugged while leaning against the wall. "That guy is skilled. If he had been facing anyone else, he would’ve taken down as many of us as possible."

"Red has this weird talent for sniffing out strong opponents," Rum muttered. "I still don’t know how he does it."

As the two continued discussing the operation, Rum suddenly raised a brow and tilted his head toward the hallway.

Vodka noticed immediately and turned, seeing that Gin was approaching them.

Vodka instinctively straightened from the wall as Gin drew closer.

"Hey," Vodka called out, noticing the distracted look on Gin’s face.

Gin stopped and blinked as if only now realizing they were there. "Huh? What are you two doing here?"

"Red and Tank already have things handled," Vodka explained, though Rum narrowed his eyes suspiciously at Gin.

"What’s wrong with you?" Rum frowned. Then, after a brief pause, he suddenly shot up from the bench. "Wait. Don’t tell me she’s dead?"

Gin’s face twisted instantly.

"Why would she be dead? She’s fine!" he snapped. "The Master got her help in time — geez! I hope someone overhears you so you get punished for jinxing her."

"I’m not jinxing anyone!" Rum clicked his tongue irritably. "You’re the one making me panic!"

Before the two could continue bickering, Vodka stepped in.

"Gin. Why are you spacing out after meeting with the Master?"

"Ah." Gin scratched the back of his head awkwardly. "It’s because she’s already awake."

"Huh?" Vodka and Rum exchanged confused looks. "Then why are you acting like this? Shouldn’t you be relieved?"

Gin stared at them blankly. "Because she’s being weird again."

"...Ah?"

"The moment she woke up, she asked for her phone," Gin explained flatly.

"..."

"She said she needs her phone," he repeated slowly, as if that clarified everything. "So now I’m supposed to find it. And if we can’t, someone has to bring her laptop from home. That’s why I’m out here."

Deep lines formed across Rum and Vodka’s faces as they stared at each other in utter disbelief.

Still, they radioed someone to retrieve what Ashley wanted. Even so, one question lingered heavily in their minds.

"...Is this what people call an iPad kid?" Rum muttered aloud.

Everyone stationed outside Ashley’s ward slowly turned toward him.

The only response he received was silence and several disappointed shakes of the head.

Meanwhile, inside the ward, nurses and doctors moved around Ashley as they performed another checkup.

Outside, they joined Gustav, Lukas, Vodka, Rum, Gin, and the other Dominion members standing in the hallway — all of them wearing similarly stiff, nervous smiles. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝒆𝒘𝙚𝓫𝙣𝙤𝒗𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

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