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No one expected danger to come so suddenly.
Just as the group was about to reach the restaurant, two men suddenly charged out of the crowd. Both wore black masks and
baseball caps.
One was tall, in a white T-shirt with muscular arms covered in tattoos. The other was shorter and not as physically imposing.
Charlotte and Petra reacted quickly, dodging to the side.
“Miss Riley, stay back! I can handle this. Take them and go!” Petra shouted, narrowly avoiding the knife slashing at her before
slamming her fist into the man’s face.
Jenny and Sophie were terrified. Their faces went pale.
Back when they worked at S&G Law Firm, there had been an incident with an armed attacker. Jenny had been shoved in front of the knife by a colleague to shield him, and the traumatic memory now came flooding back. Her eyes widened in fear. She stood
frozen, trembling uncontrollably.
Charlotte’s expression changed. She grabbed Jenny with one hand and Sophie with the other. “Run!”
Jenny snapped out of it and followed her.
Sophie, unused to such danger, was shaking. Her high heels didn’t help. After just a few steps, she twisted her ankle and fell hard
to the ground.
Petra realized the two men weren’t just ordinary thugs. They were clearly trained mercenaries.
But she had experience with their kind. Even two of them together weren’t enough to beat her.
One of the men noticed Sophie fall and broke free from Petra, charging toward Charlotte and Sophie.
“Can you stand?” Charlotte asked urgently.
“It hurts,” Sophie said, clinging to her as she struggled up. But her injury was serious. She could barely put weight on one foot.
The shorter man was nearly on them.
Knife in hand, his eyes glinted with malice as he lunged at Sophie.
Charlotte didn’t have time to think. She shoved Sophie aside and jumped in to fight the attacker.
Sophie landed hard on the patch of grass nearby, stunned as she watched Charlotte go head-to-head with the man. Her heart
raced. She had never imagined that Charlotte could fight like this.
But there was no time to be impressed. Her face was pale, her ankle throbbed with searing pain, and cold sweat beaded across her
forehead.
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Jenny rushed over to help. “Sophie, we need to move. Now.”
Sophie’s face was drained of color. She winced and said, “I can’t. My foot won’t hold me.”
“I’ll help you.”
Jenny pulled her up and immediately took out her phone to call the police.
Others on the street had already started dialing for help.
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Meanwhile, Petra was locked in a brutal fight with the muscular man. When she saw another attacker charging at Charlotte, she
landed a vicious kick that sent the first man stumbling, then sprinted toward Charlotte without hesitation.
Charlotte wasn’t bad in a fight, but the man she was facing was a cut above the usual bodyguard. He was professionally trained.
Within a few moves, she could already tell she was losing ground.
The glint of the knife flashed cold in the dim light as he drove it toward her heart.
Just then, Petra grabbed his wrist mid-strike. Her grip tightened, making the man grimace in pain.
She had arrived just in time. Charlotte had managed to avoid a fatal strike, but the knife still stabbed into her body. The pain hit a
second later, searing and debilitating.
If Petra hadn’t intervened, the next stab would have gone straight into her heart.
After a few more exchanges, Petra overpowered the attacker, disarming him and pressing the blade against his throat.
If they hadn’t been in Jersey City, in the middle of a public street, she would have already slit his throat.
The muscled mercenary, realizing his partner had been taken down, turned and fled.
Petra sneered. “Idiot.”
She calmly took a small vial from her pocket, snapped it open, and coated the blade with its contents.
Then she hurled the knife.
It flew with deadly precision and embedded itself in the runner’s calf.
The man didn’t make a sound. He was clearly trained to withstand pain but within moments, he collapsed mid-stride.
Petra muttered, “It’s a powerful tranquilizer. Even a trained fighter can’t last a minute once it hits the bloodstream.”
The man in her hold tried to escape but Petra yanked him back in a chokehold until he passed out.
“Miss Riley! Are you okay? Are you hurt?” Petra turned back, her usual stoic face showing rare panic and concern.
Charlotte let out a shaky breath and shook her head. “I’m fine.”
But a strange chill crept up her spine, making every hair on her body stand on end. Something was wrong. Her instincts screamed
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at her, but she couldn’t explain why.
Before she could react, she saw a black handgun emerge from behind a statue in the distance.
Bang!
“Watch out!” Charlotte shouted, pushing Jenny aside.
The bullet hit her.
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At first, she felt only numbness. Then a blinding pain surged from the wound, tearing through her entire body. Her knees buckled.
“Miss Riley!” Petra cried out, rushing forward to catch her.
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