Looking at the razor blade that was coming towards her, Stella Grace was unusually calm. She did not expect that she would be able to return alive once she had made up her mind to come here. She did not care who was the one who was going to kill her.
Just as Bettany’s knife was merely one centimeter away from her neck, Bettany was kicked away by Elvis Zachary who had suddenly turned up.
Bettany Hadley fell to the ground with a heavy thud.
Elvis pointed angrily at Bettany and admonished her, “You ungrateful woman. We came here to save you. Yet you repay our kindness with such ingratitude. A woman like you is destined to have a bad ending. I don’t feel like saving you anymore.”
“Elvis, don’t act on impulse. Save her,” Stella said. She picked up a vase and threw it at the man in black.
Elvis quickly resumed his fight with those men together with the mercenaries who were hired by Stella.
Bettany got up and rushed out of the door.
Stella followed Bettany and ran out.
Another ten people rushed out of the lifts, each with blades in their hands. They looked ferocious and aggressive.
“Go inside,” Stella dragged Bettany back into the house, closed the door, and placed the sofa against the door.
The fight in the room was intense. Stella brought five mercenaries with her while Elvis brought four men from the Dark Shadow. It was twelve against fifteen. The enemies were all very skilled in fighting.
Stella was outnumbered, so they were putting up a difficult defense.
Another ten people started slamming from outside the door.
They had to deal with the enemies in the house as soon as possible. If they were joined with the ten men outside, then Stella and the gang would all be wiped out.
“Shoot,” Stella ordered.
When the mercenaries heard the order, they immediately pulled out their guns and shot mercilessly.
Originally, the enemies were sneaky. They wanted to conceal their movements, which was why they did not fire a single shot. They knew that it will attract a lot of attention once they started firing.
The people outside also began to shoot. Stella hid behind the sofa and pressed it against the door with all her might.
The mercenaries in the house managed to annihilate all the enemies. Immediately, they lurked themselves at the nooks and corners of their house with their eyes fixated intensely at the entrance.
Stella glanced at the corpses in the room. When she thought that there would be another ten more corpses adding up to the total in a while, she suddenly became extremely frustrated.
She held Bettany’s collar violently and said with blood-shot eyes, “Bettany, they are trying to kill you. Are you still trying to protect the person behind the scenes? Tell me, who the heck is that person?”
“If I tell you who that person is, you would not protect me anymore,” Bettany refused to say anything.
“I want you to be a witness in court. How could I not protect you? Who is he?” Stella prompted forcefully.
“I can’t tell you now. I’ll tell you after I leave here safely,” Bettany said firmly. Her gaze was flickering and her tone bore no sincerity at all.
Stella was furious. She stood up and grabbed a gun from the nearest mercenary. Hiding behind the wall, she pointed the gun at Bettany, who was in front of the sofa and said sternly, “Tell me now and I’ll let you live. If you don’t tell me, I’ll kill you now.”
Bettany shook her head and smiled confidently, “You won’t. It does not bring you any good for you to kill me. If you wanted to kill me, you wouldn’t have risked your life to save me just now.”
“Bettany, you have never really loved anyone, have you? You don’t know the panic that washes over you when your loved ones are in danger. When you drive a person mad, the person will bound to do anything, including killing you!” Stella roared and fired a shot. The bullet missed Bettany’s head by a hair’s breadth.
Bettany was thunder-struck because she didn’t expect that Stella would really shoot at her. “What are you doing?”
Stella gritted her teeth and continued to shoot. She fired three shots and all three shots hit Bettany’s legs. “Are you going to say it or not?”
Bettany covered her bleeding legs and looked at Stella with bloody and hateful eyes, “Dream on. I won’t say a single word.”
“They are going to kill you! Bettany, are you out of your mind?” Stella said in a very, very unflappable manner.
“Heh! How much do you know about me? You said that I have never loved anyone, but you don’t know how much I have sacrificed for the man I love!” Bettany said angrily.
“Are you going to sacrifice yourself for Jasper like this? You’re not sacrificing yourself. You’re just harming him.”
“Who said that the man I loved was Jasper?” Bettany said coldly.
Stella paused, shocked. “The man you love is not Jasper?”
“Of course not. I only stayed by Jasper’s side and give birth to his child for the man I love. I am willing to disfigure myself for him. Even if I die, I won’t reveal who he is,” Bettany said firmly.
“But he is trying to kill you now!” Stella said furiously.
Bettany was turning on deaf ears. She was prepared to die anyway, “That’s because he’s following orders from others as well. Without him, I would have died when I was twelve years old. My life belongs to him anyway.”
Stella looked at the determination in her eyes and lowered her arm dejectedly.
She knew that even if she had saved Bettany today, she would not reveal the mastermind.
“Jasper will end up dead because of you. He had never hurt you. He is your child’s father,” Stella murmured.
There was a pang of strange guilt on Bettany’s face, “He is a nice person and he treats me well. He has always taken care of me.
However, he is not the man I love.
With his character, he would not have entangled himself with you if I had slept with him when I was dating him back then.
However, I was indignant. I have been waiting for the man I love all this time. I watched as he married another person and flirted with others. He was in control of everything.”
A thought suddenly flashed across Stella’s mind, “Is… the man you love, Frederick Addington?”
She ventured a guess and looked sharply at Bettany’s eyes.
Bettany paused and came to her senses, “I don’t know what you’re talking about. You can kill me if you want. I know that you won’t protect me anymore. I will be dead anyway. At least I wouldn’t feel as aggrieved if you’re the one who’s going to kill me.”
Bettany was avoiding the topic. The person she loved was indeed Frederick.
Stella was flabbergasted.
She had never expected that the man Bettany loved was Frederick.
A man who had toyed countless women.
She squatted down slowly in front of Bettany. Looking at her determined face, Stella slowly regained her composure as her rationality came back gradually, “I won’t kill you. I would only dirty my hands if I kill you. But before you die, I’ll tell you a secret.”
“What?” Bettany looked at Stella nervously.
The woman standing in front of her was a mystery. She didn’t know anything about this woman who had suddenly appeared out of nowhere.
Stella pinched Bettany’s cheek and whispered in her ear, “The woman who Frederick loves deep down, is me.”
Bettany sneered and looked at Stella mockingly. “You are absolutely whimsical. I know him too well. He has only loved a woman in his life, and that’s his ex-wife. Apart from her, he will never fall in love with anyone else.”
Stella’s lips twitched, “If that was the case, then why didn’t the man shoot me when I stood in front of you just now? If I’m not wrong, he should be Frederick’s subordinate.”