bChapter /b4

Nivera belted not of the resteem, her chest hinning and her handytem

The proper spray slipped from her grasp and fell to the floor, but tha

Her pulse thundered in her ears at the stumbled forward, her legsonderdy baskan ber

The dam heels weren’t helping matters, but she didn’t dare stop to take it off

The drags coursing through her system made the world blur and tpon, and the swayed as she clung to the walls for t

She had to cape

She couldn’t go bback /binto the main club as Nathaniel would be waiting which meant she had to feed another eat, and t

Her vision blurred as she wandered, pulting music fading into the background. What kind of club was this he grumbled theidora

as a

endless, with no extinsight

Her breaths came shallow and ragged as she pushed herself forward, her legs threatening to give out with every step

Finally, she reached a dark hallway which appeared to be far from the club, as she couldn’t hear any music again.

She paused, leaning against the cool wall as she tried to steady bherself/b. But her body refused to cooperate, her head pounding and her limbs

heavier by the second.

Niver paused in her steps when she suddenly saw him.

At the end of the hallway, illuminated by a

by a faint overhead light, stood the man from earlier,

herman, who was slumped on the floor, clutching his side

Her heart pounded in her chest as she took in the scene before her. He was facing another i

he’d been hit

Before she could process what she was seeing, the asshole raised a gun, his movements calm and deliberate

Nivera’s breath caught in her throat, her body frozen in ce.

The man on the floor bbegged/b, his voice weak and desperate, “Please…I didn’t mean to

The gunshot rang out, sharp and deafening in the silence.

Nivera’s scream tore from her lips before she could stop it over what she had just witnessed, and the colour drained from her face when the man turned instantly, his dark eyes locking onto her as she stood paralyzed at the edge of the hallway.

Alejandro stood on the balcony overlooking the club, his expression a mix of frustration and boredom as his bgaze /bbwas /bfocused on a particr woman,

The woman from earlier, the one who had the audacity to pour not one but three drinks on him, was now draped over Nathaniel ckwell, her bodynguage seductive.

He clenched the cailing tighterb, /bbhis /bdark eyes narrowing Nathaniel ckwell. The man bwas /binfamous for his affairs, despite his bvery /bbpublic /bmanage

Alejandro knew the kind of women Nathaniel attracted opportunists, gold diggers, or anyone desperate enough to be eared in his web.

bAnd /bjust as he had thought, the woman was one of them. Tet, she had the audacity to be mad when he called her for wh

He didn’t know why it in itated him sa mach to see her with Nathaniel

Maybe it was the way she looked s? lisnocent, but she want.

Ormabel wat because, Im a moment exiler while the wors sitting at the bar,

na veice broke through his thoughts. A guard approached, his tone low and gent

“We’ve got eyes on the two men you asked on to tock down. They’re still in the clubs, but they rembling f

Alejandro straightened, his annoyance with the woman shoved aside. “Show me their photos”

The guardhanded him a tablet, disying the images of two men taken from the club’s security car

Alejandro memorized their faces in seconds. It was easy as he had a photographic memory.

Spread out andb the cob,” he ordered. “They shouldn’t get far

With a final nce toward Nathaniel and the woman, Alejandro turned and left the balcony, his focus now on the task

He searched through the club and his search led him to a restricted area, dimly lit and eerily quietpared to the chaos of the

Whoosh

The first punch came out of nowhere.

Alejandro reacted instantly, his reflexes sharp from years of training as he dodged i

The man lunged at him again, but Alejandro sidestepped, grabbing his attacker’s arm and twisting it behind his back.

“You picked the wrong person and on the wrong day,” Alejandro growled, mming the man into the wall.

The goon struggled, managing tond a weak punch to Alejandro’s side, bbut /bit only bfueled /bhis anger.

With a swift, calcted movement, Alejandro disarmed him band /bdelivered ba /bbrutal blow to his jaw, sending him crumpling to the floor

“Please,” the man begged, blood dripping from his mouth when he realized that the situation wasn’t in his favour “I didn’t mean-

Alejandro didn’t let him finish as he pulled out his gun and fired.

The gunshot echoed through the hallway, and Alejandro let out a slow breath. He turned to leave but face at the sound of a scream.

His gaze snapped to the bsource /bof the sound, and there she was

The

woman from earlier stood at the edge of the hallway, her face bpale /bband /bher wide eyes locked on his

She looked like a deer caught in headlights, her body trembling as she stared at the body on the floor band /bthen at

“Don’t run,” Alejandro warned coldly, raising his bgun /band aiming it directly at her. “I’ll blow your head off if you try.”

She froze, her chest heaving, as if she couldn’t decide whether to faint or bolt.

Alejandro approached her slowly, bhis /bgun never wavering “You’ve got some nerve to have followed.

A sharp pain in his neck interrupted him, and his hand instinctively shot up to the source. His fingers grazed something small and metallic.

An binjection/b.

His eyes widened in disbelief as he met her gare again. The little shit fucking injected him with something,

Wed, 23 JUI

“I swear I’m g

going to kill.

His words cut off as the world around him tited His vision blurred, his limbs growing heavy as the doing morge

“Youtle.

Before he could finish, the drugs took full effect, and he enpsed to the floor

Niveta stood over him, het breathing in short gasps. She stared at his unconscious form for a minment

She didn’t have time to waste and so, she ran once again,