The hand resting on the rifle slowly tightened, her heart seemed to suddenly stop its original rhythm, gripped again and again by something, gripping her to the point of near suffocation.
“Miss, watch out for misfires.”
Jaden nearly jumped out of the helicopter as he watched her movements.
“…”
Paige sat there, a face beginning to fade to white, so it wasn’t that the backup was quick, but Enrico had decided early on to use his absolute power to rescue her on this side first.
Moving to anger.
Indeed, it was really moving in anger.
Otherwise, with Enrico’s character, he wouldn’t have allowed her to continue with this plan at all, and had directly called it off with a black face from the very beginning.
But he didn’t now, not only didn’t, he cooperated and watched her act, watched her enter the building, watched to monitor out the location of the Zaibatsu’s rear base camp, and only then did he make a decision that was diametrically opposed to hers.
She had intended to put herself in danger and wait for the big event to succeed, but now … it had become him in danger.
“Miss, are you okay?” Jaden looked at her face with some concern.
“Why don’t you …”
Paige opened her mouth to ask, halfway through her sentence she couldn’t ask.
But Jaden already knew what she was going to ask, “Why don’t you stop Mr. Gustin? Because I don’t think it’s Mr. Gustin’s problem this time.”
“…”
Paige stiffens.
“Young lady, you may have gotten used to carrying your own burdens a long time ago because of your experiences over the years, and I know you have the strength to do so, but it’s not what it used to be, and the people around you … are more afraid of losing you now than they used to be when the people of Wind Island looked up to you for everything and waited for you to come along for the ride. ”
Jaden said as she sat there, “You always have to adapt to your new role, you can’t always be the way you used to act.”
Paige didn’t know it, but Jaden had come from watching Enrico’s face these days.
It wasn’t like Mr. Gustin hadn’t given her a chance, he waited every day for her to be honest with him, but she never was, and at his angriest, Mr. Gustin had almost dropped the thin-necked vase the two had bought earlier.
He’d never seen Mr. Gustin so fidgety and annoyed to the core.
“…”
New character.
Not ghetto Paige, not Temple in Heaven Paige, a wife, a mother, a … daughter?
Paige looked back in the direction of the building, she couldn’t see much, but she knew that Alonso and the three siblings of THE Folsom family were still fighting for their lives inside.
Was she wrong?
She thought she could take charge, but made everyone around her afraid?
“Miss …” Jaden saw that she had been silent, his heart couldn’t help but thump, did he speak too heavily?
“Fly back to the building, get the situation under control quickly, then go back up Enrico,” Paige made her decision word for word.
The situation in front of her had been completely reversed, and she had no time to think about who was right and who was wrong between herself and Enrico. She could only passively follow Enrico’s rhythm.
She had to take this side down in the fastest time possible, and couldn’t let Enrico be isolated for too long.
“Yes.” Jaden saw that she had made a decision, and that’s when he answered.
The helicopter barely made it to the rooftop of the building during the attack, Paige put on her body armor and grabbed her gun before jumping out of the helicopter and reattacking the building with her men.
The entire building was shot to hell.
“Don’t get stalled, find those plutocrats!”
By the time Paige met Blanca, she and Alonso had assembled, both with knives and guns, their bodies covered in blood, people down around them, both killing each other.
Seeing Paige, Alonso and Blanca were both shocked, Blanca pounced, “Why are you back again? Haven’t you been fighting for a while now, you’re tired, hurry out and leave this place to us.”
“You take Paige!” Alonso’s brow knit into a chuan and smoothly pushed Blanca to Paige’s side.
These two … completely treated her like a child.
“I’m going to save Enrico, I have to find those plutocrats.”
Paige blurted out, not having time to argue with them, lifting her leg and walking away, knocking down the man who popped up in the corner with a single shot in the process.
Seeing this, Alonso and Blanca could only follow her.
The three of them killed all the way down.
The group of plutocrats disappeared en masse as if they had suddenly vaporized in the building.
But Paige knew that they were still in the building, they must still be there.
Where could they be?
There were too many floors in the building. If she searched floor by floor, room by room, she wouldn’t have time to support Enrico.
It had to be found now.
Too much time had passed and Paige was starting to panic.
Obviously, she hadn’t even felt anything when she entered the building alone, but now, she felt a little weak in the knees.
“Report, 4th floor cleared, no one found.”
“10th floor cleared, no one found.”
“72nd floor cleared, no one found.”
The reports I got were all no find, no find …
What’s going on?
Where the hell did a bunch of people hide.
Paige stood on the bullet hole filled floor, her fingers tightened and loosened, loosened and tightened, if it was her, where best to hide at this time.
The first thing the group must have done when they learned something was wrong was to come up to the 68th floor to look for her, but on the way, knowing she’d already run, they expected the worst and immediately hid.
That shouldn’t be on the lower floors, it would be in a higher place.
And no, what if they had run down there and the people over here were too busy with the firefight to notice?
Paige leaned her back against the cold wall and forced herself to calm down.
As Mitchell walked up to join them, the Folsom family men and Alonso just stood there looking at Paige worriedly, they didn’t dare bother her and they didn’t know how to comfort her.
“Why don’t we just leave it here and go straight to Enrico’s rescue?” said Blanca, unable to look at Paige in this state.
“Once our side’s forces are withdrawn, those plutocrats will escape if they find an opportunity, they won’t care if their own people die in the back.”
Jaden stood aside and said, “Once the net leaks out, today’s bureau will be for nothing.”
He understood the selfishness of the gang now, so these people and the rear couldn’t be spared in one place.
“What about Rafael and that lady of his?” A pale, hard voice rang out.
The crowd turned around and Alonso looked to Mitchell, bowing his head respectfully, “Master.”
A subordinate stepped forward, “Speaking of which, we still haven’t found President Rafael or his wife, they were clearly promised to be picked up by helicopter in front of the 51st floor, and there’s no sign of them.”
At that, Paige’s long eyelashes fluttered and she immediately questioned over, “Why didn’t you say something so important earlier?”
President Rafael and Carrie must have run into that gang of plutocrats or they wouldn’t have been unreachable.
“I … everyone killed crazy, didn t care for a moment.” The subordinate blamed himself a little.
“Search the upper and lower floors of the 51st floor thoroughly! Hurry up!”
Paige snapped as she rushed out the door, but her arm was suddenly gripped by a hand in a not-so-gentle grip.
She turned her head to meet Mitchell’s steady pair of eyes, he held her arm and looked at her with a calm demeanor, “Grandson-in-law, be steady, with so many elders here, there is no need for the juniors to lose their heads and panic.”
“…”
This is the first time Paige has seen Grandpa Enrico sober, and she looks at him with some dismay.
A pair of eyes that were clearly wrinkle-adorned were powerful to the core, and her emotions gradually settled in his gaze.