Seeing how stunned Gerald looked, Quest placed a finger under his chin as he said with a hint of interest in his tone, “Humph! You’re a grown-up, aren’t you Mr. Crawford? Are you going to tell me now that you’ve never seen beauties before? Though I have to admit that those two women are particularly stunning.”
“Hush!” replied Gerald, his gaze stern as he continued looking at the two women.
Gerald really hadn’t expected to bump into the two girls here of all places. The two beauties were in fact his old acquaintances, Jasmine and Mindy.
He hadn’t met the two girls from the time he had bid farewell with them about half a year ago in the Salford Province.
After all, after the incident at the Fenderson family mansion, his father had told him that he was contractually bound to have a marriage with Jasmine. Upon finding out that his grandfather had been the one to sign the contract, Gerald could only feel helpless back then.
However, he understood his grandfather’s motive. It was the trend back then to have strong alliances, after all.
Snapping out of it, Gerald then told Quest to stop the engine.
His intent wasn’t to continue spying on them, nor was it for him to greet and catch up with them. The truth was, Gerald had noticed two figures seemingly stalking both Jasmine and Mindy from a distance. The stalkers were simply too suspicious for Gerald to ignore.
“Are you done looking at them yet, Mr. Crawford? They’re already ascending the mountain,” said Quest.
“I’m waiting for them to go a bit higher. Just wait here in the meantime.”
After making sure that the two girls had ascended quite a distance, Gerald silently got out of the car and began inching toward the two sneaky people.
“F*cking hell! Is he actually planning to catch up with the two beauties to have a chat with them?” said Quest in resignation.
He then looked at Naomi before saying, “…Wait here, I’ll go over there to see what he’s up to.”
With that, he walked up to Gerald.
Upon running into the corridor, however, one of them immediately sensed that something was wrong and shouted, “Hold it! We’re being lured into a trap!”
Just as both men turned around to retreat, a dark figure flashed past them.
Before either of them could even react, the figure launched an extremely fluid motion. It took a second for them to realize the searing sensation on their chests. The pain was so great that it didn’t take long for both men to start screaming in agony as they fell to the ground.
“Y-you… Who are you…? Do you even know who you’re dealing with…?” warned one of the men as he held onto his chest while trying to get up.
In the end, however, both of them weren’t even able to sit upright, let alone stand.
“I have no idea who you are, but know this. If you don’t answer my questions honestly, you won’t make it out alive,” said Gerald coldly as he slipped a hand into his pocket before squatting down to take a closer look at the two stalkers.
Hearing that, both of them felt immense chills running down their spines.
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