The Ultimate Reborn Heiress (Scarlett) novel Chapter 355

hapter 355 The Ghostly Dagger

Nathan said nothing. He carried Ivy and followed Ray toward the trees.

That left Scarlett, Cody, and Lewis.

The three of them wasted no time heading back into the tunnel.

About five minutes had passed since the extraction.

They pressed themselves against the cold rock walls, making no sound.

Scarlett had already drawn the dagger from the small of her back. She held it in a reverse grip.

Another two minutes ticked by before the men inside grew suspicious.

“Where the hell did Killian take that kid? He’s been gone forever.”

“How long has it been?”

“Ten minutes, at least? Why is it dead quiet out there?”

“Marco, go check.”

Someone stood up and began walking toward the tunnel exit.

But these men weren’t amateurs like Killian; they weren’t going to stroll out with their guard down.

The one called Marco had a flashlight.

The instant he rounded the corner, the beam swept straight at Scarlett’s team.

He never got a good look.

Scarlett’s hand flicked, and the dagger left her fingers.

The blade had long since developed a will of its own.

Scarlett had bound it with blood; it could sense her intent.

It shot directly at Marco’s wrist.

He screamed. The flashlight clattered to the ground. He clutched his wrist and howled.

The dagger radiated dark energy.

That energy flooded into Marco the instant the blade broke skin.

Finished

Freezing cold engulfed his body. He seized up like a board and crumpled, curling into a fetal position on the ground.

The men deeper in the tunnel heard the scream.

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Fashed

Someone roared-

“We’ve got company! Grab your weapons!”

A flurry of footsteps echoed from deep within the tunnel.

Within seconds, the sounds drew closer.

Cody drew his sidearm and trained it on the corner, ready to drop the first man who appeared.

But Scarlett was faster. With a thought, the dagger on the ground whipped around the corner.

The men had just reached the turn when something struck their wrists, followed by a chorus of agonized

screams.

Three bodies crumpling, wracked by the same bone–deep, ice–cold agony, unable to do anything but writhe and moan.

Cody and Lewis stared, jaws slack.

Four men had been neutralized in an instant

They hadn’t even had to fire a shot

That’s it?

It was over, just like that?

They’d been bracing themselves–what if the kidnappers were armed? What if bullets started flying? What if Scarlett was caught in a crossfire?

And then the men were just… on the ground.

They knew how it happened, of course.

Even in the dim light, they had seen it.

Scarlett had thrown something–the dagger–and it had taken Marco down instantly,

When the rest charged out, she’d flicked her wrist and the same dagger had struck all three, moving faster than any bullet.

Scarlett picked up Marco’s fallen flashlight and walked forward.

Marco looked about 40, his face chalk–white.

He trembled violently on the ground. As Scarlett approaed, he managed to lift his head and look at her

When he saw her face, he froze.

He couldn’t believe it. After all his years running from the law, he’d been taken down by a girl who looked like she belonged on a magazine cover.

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Finished

Scarlett swept the flashlight over the remaining three, all slumped around the corner.

They were all over forty.

One of them–bald, heavyset–had a particularly vicious set of features.

The dagger lay quietly beside him.

Scarlett bent to pick it up.

The bald man recognized that his crew was finished.

Seeing her reach for the weapon that had crippled them, he suppressed the biting cold and searing pain in his body.

Snarling, he lunged forward, grabbing the dagger before Scarlett could reach it.

The instant his hand closed around the hilt, his very soul seemed to convulse. Pain beyond anything physical–pain that went straight to the core of his being–nearly knocked him out on the spot.

He didn’t have time to wonder why.

Pure instinct drove him to stab upward at Scarlett.

If he was going down, so was she.

What happened next made his scalp prickle.

He was gripping the dagger, willing every last ounce of strength into the thrust-

And the blade wouldn’t move. It fought him, resisting with a force of its own, as if the weapon itself refused to harm its master.

What the hell?

He didn’t even have time to process the shock.

!

Because the pain–in his bones, in the marrow, in every crack and crevice of his body–was erasing his ability to think.

Then, the girl’s boot connected with his ribs.

The man felt the bones in his waist shatter. The pain was so absolute that he finally lost consciousness.

Scarlett kicked the bald man unconscious and plucked the dagger from his limp hand.

The blade hummed twice–a brief, proud vibration.

As if saying, See? He tried to stab you. I stopped him.

Scarlett tapped the flat of the blade and smiled. “Good work.”

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Cody and Lewis rushed over.

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