Joseph stopped hesitating and brought Mitchell out along with the bodyguards because Ashton had repeated his instruction and made himself clear.
“Don’t you dare try anything silly! Otherwise, get yourself ready to bear the consequences of your actions! Argh!”
Mitchell’s shriek could soon be heard reverberating around the confined space. I could vividly imagine his arm being twisted by brute force. Consequently, I started retching in disgust.
Even after one of his arms was forcefully broken, Mitchell continued warning Ashton, “Why don’t you take me out? As long as I’m alive, I’ll come after you! Argh—”
Suddenly, he stopped shrieking out of the blue. As silence fell, I knew Mitchell must have passed out due to the racking sensation he felt when they tried to break his other arm.
Overwhelmed by a sense of insecurity, I grasped Ashton’s arm and asked, “Where’s Jackson? Have you found Emma?”
Emma was the most innocent of them all. She was abducted when she had nothing to do with the vicious man, so she must be horrified.
On the other hand, although Jackson wasn’t stabbed at a fatal point, I was afraid he might be heavily injured. Despite the grudge he held against me, he had still rushed to my rescue in the nick of time. Once the emotions I had been suppressing came flooding out, torrents of grief streamed down my cheeks.
“You need to calm down.” Ashton wrapped his arm around me in support. He then said with a helpless expression, “I’m not aware Jackson has been hurt.”
Startled, I questioned, “What? Hasn’t John sent you?”
He shook his head and replied, “Armond was the one who dropped me a text of the address and the photos of you being unconscious.”
W-Why would Armond get in touch with Ashton when he was one of the masterminds behind the abduction?
We were on Mitchell’s territory, so Ashton knew the Ziegler family had been alerted about the situation. Thus, once he got me a bathrobe to cover myself, he brought me away without further ado.
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