"Take me to the Burton residence!" Mia demanded emotionlessly.
Hayes clenched his fists, and after a long pause, he finally sighed. "Turn around, head to the Burton residence."
Within the grounds of the Burton residence, Jensen stood with one foot on Kendall's lifeless body, his cold gaze fixed on the surrounding Burton family guards. All the men who had come with him had been sacrificed, leaving him alone. Jensen was injured in several places, covered in blood, but luckily none of the wounds were fatal. He had found the woman Hayes had sent, but she was not Mia. While angered, Jensen was also secretly relieved.
'If Hayes wanted us to eliminate Kendall, he could have directly ordered us. But he deliberately used Mia to make me fight harder and face death.'
Jensen had a fairly good idea of the various reasons behind it all. At that moment, he knew there was no escape. Besides anger, his heart was filled with intense regret. He had not returned to the Kooper family to take revenge, nor had he seen Kisa again. To die like this was something he could not accept.
His knife was covered in blood, dripping drop by drop. He had initially planned to capture Kendall and break out with his men, but Kendall, as dimwitted and cowardly as he was, had panicked at the sight of the knife. Tripping over a vine, Kendall had accidentally impaled himself on the blade. With Kendall dead, the Burton family guards had rushed in and began hacking indiscriminately. Jensen's men had all been killed by the chaos of flashing blades. Glancing at his fallen comrades, Jensen felt a chill in his heart.
'Am I going to die like this too?'
The surrounding guards, knives in hand, slowly closed in. Jensen tightened his grip on his weapon, his entire body tensed, ready for battle.
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