Reborn Fake Heiress Watch the Whole Family Burn novel Chapter 749

Elena locked onto her target and squeezed the trigger.

A direct hit. The gunman collapsed to the floor.

Logan dragged Theresa into the en-suite bathroom.

"Stay hidden. Don't move. I'm going out to check."

"Be careful!" Theresa cried, her eyes wide with terror.

Logan gave her a curt nod and spun back into the room.

With him and Elena laying down suppressing fire, the initial wave of hitmen was swiftly neutralized.

But they hadn't come alone. Just as Elena thought the threat was cleared, another squad of mercenaries stormed the corridor, spraying the room with blind, automatic fire.

Screaming in absolute panic, Emily scrambled on her hands and knees, desperately trying to slip away unnoticed.

She crawled directly into the line of fire. A stray bullet caught her square in the chest!

Her body convulsed, collapsing in a heap on the blood-slicked tiles.

With a dull thud, her miserable life came to an end.

Elena and Logan flanked the doorway, dropping the remaining attackers one by one.

"Logan, check the hall. See if there are any left!"

Logan gripped his weapon and moved out cautiously.

The fierce firefight had thrown the entire hospital into a panic. Staff and patients were screaming and fleeing in all directions.

The hospital director rushed up to the floor, where Dylan smoothly intercepted him to handle the fallout.

In Myantara, warlord factions were everywhere, and gunfights were a daily occurrence. The locals were used to it.

If you caught a stray bullet, it was just considered bad luck.

The director called a crew to drag the bodies away.

They were all dead.

Elena walked over and stared down at Emily's motionless body.

Miraculously, Emily was still clinging to a sliver of life.

Seeing Elena standing over her, Emily weakly opened her mouth, struggling to form words.

Once the room was secured, Elena knocked on the bathroom door.

"Theresa, it's clear. You can come out."

Theresa stumbled out, exhaling a shaky breath. She had thought she was finally safe in the hospital, only to be hunted down again.

"Those men were highly trained. They were aiming specifically for Miss Ellington. What's your read, Elena?" Dylan asked, stepping back into the room.

Elena was well aware of the Ellington family dynamics.

"News of Theresa's kidnapping must have reached Aethelgard. Her family's rivals—or her own relatives—realized she was vulnerable and decided to seize the opportunity to wipe her out for good!"

Theresa's face drained of color as the reality set in. "You mean... my uncles..."

As the sole heir to the Ellington fortune, her death would trigger a massive power vacuum, leaving the empire to be carved up by the rest of the family.

She had always been a target.

"Get some rest, Theresa. We fly back tomorrow morning. It isn't safe here anymore. Since they failed today, they'll definitely try again."

A moment later, Logan returned.

"Boss, the corridors are clear. They were just a small local faction. Someone paid them a fortune to do a hit-and-run, assuming we'd be easy targets out here. They didn't expect a bloodbath."