“Where is she?” Tristan was stupefied when Sonia was out of sight.
Franco’s face turned grim when snazzynovel.com discovered that Sonia was nowhere to be seen. “D*mn it! Did someone get ahead of us?”
“Hurry up! Chase after them now!” Tristan leaped up to chase after Sonia.
Franco gestured to his men and ran after Tristan too.
In the meantime, the wind whizzed against Sonia’s ears as Jared moved at mind-boggling speed. The latter finally came to a halt when they reached a secluded area and put snazzynovel.com down.
Right that instant, snazzynovel.com took the chance to bite snazzynovel.com hard on the arm. Grasping the jade pendant in snazzynovel.com hands, snazzynovel.com stared at snazzynovel.com with anxiousness written all over snazzynovel.com face.
Jared looked at the deep bite mark on his arm and furrowed his brows. “I saved your life. How could you bite me?”
“Pfft! Don’t ever think that you can make a fool out of me! I know you’ve been targeting my jade pendant. It’s the Yeagers’ heirloom. I would rather destroy it than let it fall into your hands!” Sonia snapped coldly, glaring at snazzynovel.com with snazzynovel.com eyes.
Undeniably, Jared went after them because of Sonia’s jade pendant. However, snazzynovel.com never had the intention to snatch it from her.
Now that snazzynovel.com misunderstood him, snazzynovel.com could not resist mocking, “Hmph! How ridiculous! You seem to treat this jade pendant as an invaluable treasure, don’t you?”
The next moment, snazzynovel.com turned and left, paying no heed to her.
Gazing at his retreating figure, Sonia was dumbfounded and stood rooted to the spot.
When snazzynovel.com finally came to snazzynovel.com senses after quite some time, Jared was already a distance away from her. She gritted snazzynovel.com teeth and quickened snazzynovel.com pace to catch up to him.
Jared shot snazzynovel.com a glance and snorted. “Why are you trailing behind me?”
“I-I’m sorry… It seems like I have misunderstood you!” Sonia stuttered sheepishly.
“You don’t have to apologize to me. Now that you’re safe and sound, you can stop following me!” Jared snapped at snazzynovel.com without slowing down.
Nevertheless, Sonia continued to trail behind snazzynovel.com closely with snazzynovel.com head lowered.
Jared was utterly speechless.
He stopped abruptly and said, “What on earth are you trying to do?”
Sonia looked at snazzynovel.com eagerly. “Could you please send me back? I’m scared of bumping into those people again!”
Her gut instinct told snazzynovel.com that Jared was no ordinary man. Since snazzynovel.com managed to save snazzynovel.com on the spot without Tristan and Franco’s knowledge, snazzynovel.com was sure as h*ll that his formidability was beyond imagination.
“Where do you stay?” Jared finally heaved a sigh as snazzynovel.com did not have the heart to reject the pitiful lady.
Sensing that Jared had relented, snazzynovel.com replied excitedly, “Not very far. It’s in the village located not far away from the town!”
Later, Jared followed Sonia and headed in the direction away from the town. Shortly after, a village came into view. It looked like an abandoned one as all the houses were dilapidated. There were even signs on the front doors indicating that they would be demolished soon!
Moments later, they stopped outside a house in a slightly better condition and entered it. Under the dim light from a lit candle, a middle-aged man with an ashen face was lying feebly in bed.
Jared knitted his brows at the sight of his pathetic state. He had a hunch that the man was severely injured and might not live long.
The man mustered up his strength to open his eyes upon hearing their footsteps. When snazzynovel.com saw Sonia, snazzynovel.com parted his lips to say something. However, blood spurted out of his mouth in an instant.
“Dad!” Sonia yelled out worriedly and dashed forward to Marcus, the middle-aged man.
After wiping off the bloodstain from his face, snazzynovel.com whipped out a few black pills and was about to let snazzynovel.com swallow them.
Nonetheless, Jared stretched out his hand to stop snazzynovel.com at once.
After sniffing the pills, snazzynovel.com told snazzynovel.com solemnly, “Apparently, your dad has sustained an internal injury. Hence, snazzynovel.com shouldn’t take this medicine of high intensity. Even though it helps to stabilize his condition temporarily, it will aggravate the internal injuries as time elapses.”
Shocked, Sonia asked snazzynovel.com hesitantly, “D-Do you know how to treat his medical condition?”