Chapter 68

For some cause, Peter held out his hand like a gentleman.

Grace, who tried to carry his hand, froze because the imaginative and prescient that had been blurry from rubbing her eyes grew to become clearer. A hand in a black leather-based glove, and past that, rain-soaked hair and a black trench coat…

The person who reached out to Grace wasn’t Peter.

“…Gasp!”

The person grabbed Grace’s wrist, who flinched and averted it. As she groaned on the power of the grip that appeared like it might break her bones, a chilly whisper penetrated her ear because the chilly, rain-soaked lips touched her ear.

“Darling, did you have got final outing earlier than you die?”

Goosebumps ran up all the way in which to her head.

When she turned her head away from the sharpened frost eyes, over Winston’s shoulder, she might see the iron door of the annex that was firmly closed. On the finish of the lined-up troopers with their fingers clasped obediently, Peter entered her eyes.

Tears thicker than raindrops lined her eyes at that second.

“H, ho, ho…”

…The one she believed to be her ally gave her into the enemy’s fingers.

Even at this second when her cause was paralyzed, she might clearly see.

Fred even leaked Peter’s id…

Due to that, he grew to become Winston’s double agent as a way to survive, and she or he was fully unaware. That decision was to Winston, not Nancy… after which he went as far as to make an pointless scuffle about taking her to Nancy.

As Grace sobbed, feeling betrayed, Winston approached Peter. He patted Peter on the shoulder like congratulating him earlier than twisting his lips in a sneer.

“I didn’t know that the put up workplace even delivers ladies?”

A hand in a black leather-based glove gripped Peter’s shoulder tightly.

“Chuckle. I’m simply kidding.”

From Peter to his enlisted males, all of the contemplative males pressured amusing. Winston dragged Grace, the one one who didn’t chortle, out of the wagon and into Peter’s entrance.

“Miss Riddle, why didn’t you inform me beforehand that you just have been acquainted with this diligent courier? Oh, I additionally didn’t inform you prematurely that we knew one another, so I suppose it’s a tie?”

When she confronted Peter, who was avoiding her gaze, anger ran to the tip of her head. Grace shrugged off Winston and pounced on Peter.

“Soiled renegade…! How might you do that to an ally?! I’ll kill you! Go to hell!”

“Grace! Cease!”

Peter acted impudently to Grace, who had no power and was simply messing round. The man who shook his hand and head like a fly and made a troubled face muttered.

“Proper, simply be quietly locked up….”

At that second, she clenched her fist painfully and swung it into Peter’s face.

Wham.

Her fist landed proper beneath Peter’s cheekbone. As quickly as his head snapped to the facet, her eyes all of a sudden modified.

“The place did this come from?”

Peter’s palm flew in the direction of Grace’s cheek. Simply earlier than being hit, a black-gloved hand grabbed his wrist. On the similar time, as she stepped again to keep away from it, Grace slumped on the rain-soaked gravel as her legs gave out.

“Huhuu…”

With sorrowful cries and not using a second to really feel the ache of falling…

Bang.

A gunshot went off.

Grace’s eyes widened, and she or he set free a brief scream in shock. The bloody Peter was mendacity on the cobblestones simply steps away, gasping for his final breath. White smoke billowed from the muzzle of the pistol in Winston’s hand.

“How dare this soiled mouse…”

Winston, obtrusive on the dying Peter, all of a sudden turned to Grace.

Step.

The black footwear got here towards Grace, stepping on the bloodstained cobblestones. The pistol was nonetheless in Winston’s hand.

He was going to kill her, too.

“Ah, heuk…”

She needed to scream, however there was no voice. As she tried to flee, her trembling fingers gripped the sharp pebbles, and she or he was caught. The feel of the chilly leather-based gloves wrapped across the nape of her neck was creepy.

“That man, I despatched him to hell simply as you mentioned.”

He bent his again towards her.

Grace couldn’t even shed a tear as every thing froze in entrance of her eyes, which flashed chilly anger greater than anything on the earth.

“Do you need to go, too?”

The second she shook her head, forcing her physique to not hear, he let go of her and ordered.

“Then beg.”

When he mentioned that he would give her an opportunity to flee demise, Grace despaired. Simply trying up with confused eyes, Winston gritted his enamel.

“Sure, I’m the simplest on the earth for you.”

Winston raised the pistol that was pointed on the ground. Because the chilly muzzle pressed in opposition to her brow, she hurriedly set free a determined scream.

“You mentioned it together with your mouth that you just don’t take heed to every thing I ask for?! You’ve by no means listened to me, even when I urge! I’d somewhat you kill me!”

Insanity started to flash in her eyes as she vented her resentment.

“Sure, kill me…! You at all times needed to kill me with your individual fingers! Do it! Go forward, pull the set off! Is my angle of asking an issue? Sort Captain, please kill me!”

The white hand grabbed the pistol and pulled it down. The second a tough piece of metallic touched her lips, Grace opened her mouth willingly. The twisted smile slowly erased from Winston’s face as she held the gun to her mouth and glared with spiteful eyes.

With the final of her power, Grace clutched the barrel and Winston’s hand with each fingers.

She staked her life on a playing desk with the satan. Her flip was over, and now, she had no alternative however to attend for her opponent to play.

As she closed her eyes, rainwater trickled down the muzzle and dripped onto her tongue, with solely the sound of rain audible. The rainwater tasted of gunpowder and iron. It was no totally different from the style of blood.

It tasted like demise… and it was the style of freedom.

Perhaps demise was freedom, not bondage… particularly for these for whom demise was the one method to regain freedom.

Grace, who had been deceiving herself that dropping this gamble was not dangerous, hit the onerous piece of metallic in opposition to her enamel time and again. Was it her who was shaking now, or was it the muzzle?

It was a pointless second to ask. The muzzle was pulled out of her enamel.

“You’re utilizing a cheeky trick once more.”

The pistol was put into the holster.

“You’ll have to pay the value.”

Leon turned his again on the girl trying up with weary eyes.

…The pathetic bastard who turns into the simplest man on the earth for that girl.

He needed to place a bullet in his head.

Campbell glanced behind his superior. The day was slowly dawning outdoors the window, the place the skinny curtains have been drawn.

“Will that work?”

On the sudden chortle, he turned his gaze again to his superior in entrance of the desk. What was humorous? Simply as he was about to ask why, the captain waved his hand, holding a cigar.

“Go on.”

“Sure, the commotion this morning is that the one that tried to interrupt into the annex and steal navy secrets and techniques was killed, and I plan to report it to the headquarters right now.”

After receiving a name from the orderly that an emergency had occurred whereas Campbell was sleeping, as quickly as he hurried to work, he was greeted by corpses scattered within the entrance yard of the annex.

He was speechless for a second when he realized that it was the rebels that the captain had personally enlisted as a double agent some time in the past. Nonetheless, it was not stunning that the one who obeyed the order died, however the girl who escaped and brought on a commotion was alive and nicely.

“What’s the escape route?”

“She dug the wall between the lavatory and the storage room with an interrogation software…”

“Campbell, I do know that.”

It meant to disclose the escape route after that.

Campbell was stumped. Even when she got here out of the storage room, it was a closed room blocked by iron bars and a dead-end hallway, however how the hell did that girl escape with out going by way of the bars?

“After that, the trail resulting in the backyard wall remains to be unclear, however we’re investigating and can report it as quickly as we determine it out.”

“Achieve this.”

“Captain.”

The Captain, who had a cigar in his mouth, raised one eyebrow.

“The surest method could be to ask the one that escaped.”

“I suppose so.”

If she might converse…

Leon twitched the corners of his mouth as he drew within the cigar smoke in time.

“Who’s in cost?”

“At the moment, the guards guarding the hall have been two, and so they mentioned they didn’t see or hear any suspicious actions.”

“The girl from the storage room to the backyard…”

The Captain snapped his fingers.

“Did you imply she teleports?”

“The non-public in command of the torture room door stepped out of the hallway in entrance of the torture room door between three and 4 o’clock as he was standing in entrance of the iron cage.”

“Campbell, what was the very first thing that got here to your thoughts whenever you heard that?”

Seeing the Captain requested with a smile, curling the corners of his eyes, Campbell, who had assisted Captain Winston at shut vary for a few years, knew it nicely. That now was the second to decrease his head.

“I’m sorry, Captain. The non-public in query will probably be reprimanded for leaving the office, and all deployed personnel will probably be totally skilled to stop this from taking place sooner or later.”

“That’s a given.”

The Captain who turned the cigar’s ashes hastened the report.

“So, what concerning the restore work of the torture chamber I ordered?”

“As for the alternative work you talked about, we are going to test the schedule and put up it as quickly because the associated corporations open. Moreover, the wall repairs, removing of the shed doorways, and set up of extra bolts and locks have been anticipated to be accomplished throughout the morning.”

“To forestall a recurrence totally.”

“Sure, Sir.”

“Go.”

When Campbell left, Leon gave orders from the empty workplace.

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