Female Novel
Chapter 831-840
After sending the text, the girl put down her phone. Although she looked young, the determination inher eyes showed that she was not weak.
In the airport, the gang of people scattered around while looking for the girl. Meanwhile, the lady fromearlier went to the security office immediately to register her missing item. Soon, the security let herenter the surveillance room and found the scene where the other girl had knocked her down. Throughthe footage, they could see that the girl had picked up the lipstick.
The lady in front of the monitor was so angry as though fire was going to blast out of her eyes. Herlipstick had been switched just like that.
“Yes, it’s this girl. What she took was important to me. I want to get her contact information.”
“You’ll need to report to the police, Miss,” the security answered.
“The proof is right here. She took my key. Do you know that’s the key to my safety vault? I just need thegirl’s information, and I’ll get it back from her myself. There’s no need to trouble the police,” she saidanxiously. Her anxious expression wasn’t fake since she was on the verge of breaking down.
The manager on the side was feeling troubled too. After all, disclosing a customer’s information wasprohibited.
“It’s obvious that she knocked me on purpose. Can’t you see it? Just give me her information. I’m not abad guy either. I just want my key back from her,” she said in distress. “I have an important documentinside my vault that my client needs to sign tonight. Do you know how much money I’ll lose if thisdoesn’t go through?”
In the end, the manager decided to give her the girl’s information since it was just a misunderstandingand not some hazardous incident. However, they didn’t know that the lady standing in front of them was
one of the top international criminals.
She took the document from the manager with the girl’s phone number and name inside it.
“This is all we can do for you, Miss. We can’t tell you anything more than this.”
“It’s enough.” She turned and left immediately.
In the black SUV, a man was looking through the information quickly. This group of people were notordinary people, for they had masterminds and extraordinary methods to carry things out.
Soon, detailed information appeared on the computer.
The man gritted his teeth and said, “I found her.”
At this moment, the girl in the photo with an innocent face had become their main hunting target.
“Wow! She has a strong background. Her mother is the CEO of a company worth eighty million, andher father is the second most powerful in this city. Interesting.”
“If I can’t get the lipstick back, I’ll ask her whole family to die with her,” the lead guy said ruthlessly.
“We’ll definitely get it back.”
“However, we can’t snatch it from her forcefully since I don’t want to stir up any problems here. We’reon people’s radar now. We’ll change the date of the deal to one week later so that we’ll have a week towork on this operation.”
“Yes, boss. I’ll get the thing back for you even if I have to bet my life on it,” said the lady while grindingher teeth.
They had twelve members in their gang, and they all lived by stealing. However, they weren’t anyordinary thieves. They had the best stealing techniques, and whatever they had their eyes on weredefinitely rare items in the world.
What they were stealing this time was a military gain which had just been developed successfully. Itwas the original blueprint of a weapon. They knew very well which organization they had messed with,so they needed to be careful with every step they took. Simply put, failure was not allowed.
“Remember, we can’t be noticed by anyone. If they know we’re here, it’ll be impossible for us to leavethis country.” Although the lead guy had an exotic look, his face made him look ruthless and cold. Hewas just like a wolf in the wild, not to be fondled with.
At this moment, the people he mentioned made everyone in the car nervous. They were not justordinary interpol; what they had stolen this time belonged to that organization.
That was a mysterious military organization. In fact, they were so mysterious that no one knew whothey worked for, but they were not people to be underestimated.
Just as they were being afraid of that organization, the head of that organization was looking at thepicture retrieved from the airport in front of a giant monitor. They were also looking at the surveillancefootage of that lady looking for her missing lipstick in the security office.
At the back of Richard were six men in camouflage uniforms sitting behind him. Some of them wereyoung, whereas some were middle-aged men. There were even two foreigners. All of them listened tothe orders of this young man in front of them.
“Show me the information about this girl.” He pointed at the girl wearing the cap in the surveillancevideo.
His subordinate beside him tapped a few times on the keyboard instantly to retrieve a detailedinformation, and the girl’s face was enlarged.
At this moment, all the men there were stunned for a few seconds. It was the first time they saw such abeautiful face in an ID photo. The perfectly proportioned face of the girl with long hair movedeveryone’s heart.
Richard looked at her face and squinted his eyes. “Angela Meyers, twenty-five. Her mother is running areal estate company as the CEO and her father…” As he read until here, he was stunned for a fewseconds. Nonetheless, he still read the name out in a stern tone. “Gilbert Meyers, a councilor.”
“Do you know Mr. Meyers, Richard?” A sharp subordinate of his noticed his pause earlier.
“He used to work for my grandfather. I’ve seen him before, but we’re not close,” Richard answered.
“Now that the lipstick is in Miss Meyers’ hand, this group of people will surely see her as their maintarget. Her life will be in danger every second from now on since they always do things ruthlessly.”
“I think they won’t kill her before they find the USB disguised as a lipstick. However, they’ll surelykidnap and force her to tell them the location of the lipstick,” another subordinate said.
“We need to protect this Miss Meyers, Richard.”
“Both the people and the lipstick are our subjects of protection,” Richard said sternly. “We need to findthat lipstick before them.”
“How do we approach Miss Meyers, though?”
After some thought, Richard said, “I can ask my grandfather for help. I’ll be in charge of approachingher. You guys just stay still and keep your eyes on this group of people’s whereabouts.”
“You should hand me the mission of dealing with the girl. I’m better at it than you, Richard.” Asubordinate raised his brows and gestured to himself as if telling Richard that he could do it.
Hearing that, Richard glanced at him. “This is a mission, not the time for you to hit on girls.”
“You can’t deny that Miss Meyers is really stunningly beautiful!”
Speechless, Richard glared at him. Although there were two of his guys who were glib, they were stillhis best men.
In the Meyers’ Residence, Angela was seated on the couch and looking at the beautiful womanopposite her. She lifted her head and said with determination, “Mom, I won’t break up with Dexter, and Iwon’t accept the engagement that you’ve arranged for me.”
“You have no choice. Dexter is marrying another girl. Are you trying to be his mistress?” DaphneMeyers looked at her daughter with anger in her eyes instead of compassion.
“Dexter and I love each other. He has done so much for me, and you can’t separate us so ruthlessly.”Angela’s eyes were filled with sadness and reluctance.
“Silly girl. When a man does everything for you, it doesn’t always mean that he loves you a lot. It mightpossibly be because he’s interested in our family’s money, and you’re just in the dark about that.”
“Dexter is not that kind of man.” Angela believed in her own choice of man.
Daphne secretly sighed to herself; she was the one who had arranged a woman for Dexter Kavinsky,giving him ten million to give up on her daughter. However, Angela was still being so stubborn. Thisreally enraged her.
She shouldn’t have sent her daughter to study overseas in the first place and let this man with ulteriormotives approach her and gain her affection, stealing her heart completely. Now, her daughter was
deeply in love with him.
Daphne always thought that her daughter studied too much and had ruined her own brain. She couldhave chosen a better boyfriend for herself, but she ended up choosing a man with an ordinarybackground but extraordinary means.
If it were not because she was more cunning, the rest of her daughter’s life would have been ruinedjust like that.
Angela didn’t want to face her mother anymore. She stood up and walked in the direction of the stairs,wanting to go back to her room.
At this moment, Daphne received a call from her husband. “Hello?”
“How’s our daughter?”
“She still doesn’t want to break up with Dexter. Such a silly girl,” she said worriedly.
“I received news that someone might be having their eyes on us. Be careful, you two. Meanwhile, I’vearranged a bodyguard to protect Angela for her own safety. He’ll be there tomorrow morning.”
Daphna wasn’t shocked to hear such a thing since she had been through a lot too. Now that herdaughter was not listening to her, she needed to arrange a bodyguard for her. Otherwise, her daughterwould be in danger if she left the house after throwing tantrums.
“Okay! Is the bodyguard reliable?”
“Very reliable. Mr. Lloyd introduced him to me.” When Daphne heard that, she felt relieved too. “Okay,you should take care of your own safety too. It’s really stormy these days.”
In the room on the third floor, Angela was standing in front of the window, looking at the lights far away.Her mind was filled with her lonely life when she was overseas during those days, and that was whenDexter came into her world. He had been by her side throughout her lonely days without her parentsbeside her, and it was a happy period in her life.
Since she was young, her mother had spent all her time in the office, and her father had spent all histime at work. Despite her wealth, she had poor mental and emotional health. Her parents thought thatthey had given her the best life when they had actually removed all the comfort for her.
However, three days ago, Dexter told her that he was going to be engaged and that he had fallen inlove with another woman. She saw with her own eyes when he kneeled on one knee and proposed tothat woman with a bouquet of flowers in his hands.
At this thought, Angela held back her tears and took her phone to look at the text. She continued tosend him another message that read, ‘Dexter, I can give up on everything to be with you. Can youplease come back to me?’
However, when she sent out the text, it was totally ignored; there was no reply at all.
Her phone then started ringing. She took up her phone and saw that it was her cousin.
“Hello, Ann.”
“I have some good news for you, Angela. I’m getting engaged.”
“What?” Angela said in shock. She’s getting engaged?
“It’s so sudden, right? Do you know what the man I’m engaged to looks like? Oh, my God! He’s sohandsome. In fact, he’s the most handsome man I’ve ever seen in my life. Grandpa arranged the
engagement for me, but I’m so satisfied with it.” It was Annie Meyers’ voice on the other side of thephone.
Hearing that, Angela was still worried. “Have you seen him before?”
“I’ve only seen his photo, but I’m already falling for him. I’ve heard that he has come back here already,so our family will be engaged with his family tomorrow night. Are you free to come, Angela?”
“I-I’ll see if I’m free.” Angela wasn’t in a good mood, so she didn’t want to ruin everything for Annie.
“Are you still thinking about Dexter?”
“He has already proposed to another woman. I don’t know.” Angela stared at the lights outside thewindow with her eyes full of bitterness. No one could accept the devastation after being abandoned.
“Don’t be sad, Angela. Look on the bright side.”
“I get it, Ann. If I can’t attend your engagement, I’ll definitely attend your wedding.”
“Okay!” Annie answered happily.
After hanging up on the phone, Angela turned around and accidentally knocked her bag on the couch.The bag fell onto the ground and a lipstick rolled out of it.
She looked at the lipstick and took her resentment toward her boyfriend’s betrayal onto the lip product.Dexter had given it to her, and she had been using it for a long time since she wasn’t willing to changeit. Now, she didn’t want to see it anymore.
As such, she took the lipstick and walked to the balcony. After taking a deep breath, she closed hereyes and threw that lipstick out of the window into the dark garden.
Even though the lipstick was thrown away, she was still feeling devastated. She squatted down andcovered her face, letting her tears fall out of her eyes. At that moment, she was waiting for a savior.
Who could save her? Who could save her broken heart?
All of a sudden, a loud thunder struck from the sky, and it was followed by a beam of lightning thatshone on her pale but beautiful face.
A storm was about to arrive. Soon, rain started pouring down from the sky on Averna.
In the corner of the garden, the lipstick that Angela had thrown just now lay there on the soft soil. Ashallow hole was made by the pouring rain, and the lipstick slipped into it and was covered by anotherlayer of soil.
At this moment, Angela had no idea what kind of secret was hidden in the lipstick that she had thrownaway in anger and that two groups of people were approaching her. One was to kill her, and the otherone was to save her. No one knew what was going to happen next.
In the morning, there was a tall man standing outside of the door of the Meyers Residence with a bagin his hand. He pressed on the doorbell, and the maid came and asked him, “Are you the newbodyguard?”
“Yes.”
“What’s your name?”
“Gideon Lambert,” the man said his name naturally.
“Please come in.” The maid let him in because she had received a notice yesterday about the newbodyguard coming in today.
Inside the hall, Daphne was ready to head out when she saw the new bodyguard coming in. She wasmomentarily stunned.
This bodyguard’s face and aura were much better than she expected. She was totally amazed by him.
“Hello, Mrs. Meyers. I’m Gideon Lambert. I was sent by Mr. Meyers to protect Miss Meyers,” the youngman greeted her respectfully.
“Hello, Mr. Lambert. I’ve heard from my husband. Well, my daughter is not in a good mood these days.Please keep your eyes on her and don’t let her do anything stupid.” She studied him from head to toeand actually felt that it might be a good choice to take him as her son-in-law.
“Sure. I’ll do everything in my power to protect your daughter and not let her be exposed to anydanger.” His low and calm voice gave her a sense of security.
“I can have peace of mind, then.” She felt that her husband’s taste in bodyguards was great, for he hadsent such a tall and handsome bodyguard to protect their daughter. Most importantly, she could seethat he was full of righteousness. It was rare for her to sense this strong and righteous feeling from aperson.
“Have you had your breakfast?”
“I did. Thank you.”
“My daughter is upstairs. I’m heading out now, so I don’t have the time to introduce you to her. I’ll askthe maid to take you upstairs instead.” As she spoke, her phone started ringing. She quickly picked itup and said, “I’m going out now. Please wait for a while.”
After Daphne left, the maid said to the young man in the hall, “Mr. Lambert, you can have a seat first.Miss Meyers is not up yet.”
However, the man didn’t sit down. He put down his luggage and went outside to the yard to check thetopography of the entire Meyers Residence. Just then, a voice came from the earpiece in his ears.
“Richard, we’ve already hacked into the security system of the Meyers Residence. Everything is undercontrol.”
This bodyguard wasn’t anyone else; it was Richard entering the Meyers Residence with anotheridentity. The Meyers Residence was in an extremely dangerous situation during this time. It wasespecially so for Miss Meyers, who could be kidnapped at any time by the thieves.
In the main bedroom on the third floor, Angela opened her eyes, but they were so red and puffy that itmade her uncomfortable. She climbed out of bed and went to the bathroom to wash her face. She hadthought about it for the whole night and decided to talk about getting Dexter back with her mother.
Since her father had gone outstation and only her mother and maids were at home, she didn’t try tochange or dress up. She just wore her silk sleeping gown and went downstairs. With her messy longhair behind her head, Angela was slightly voluptuous and extremely beautiful that morning.
She gave out a born noble aura with some iciness and bookishness.
Just when Angela was going down the stairs and wanted to call the maid, a tall figure came in from theentrance with light shining from his back, giving people a sense of pressure.
Unexpectedly, the two of them looked at each other, and Angela widened her eyes a little. Why is therea man in the house?
Richard looked at Miss Meyers, who had just woken up, and nodded. “Hello, Miss Meyers. I’m GideonLambert, your new bodyguard. From now on, I’ll be in charge of your safety 24/7.”
“24/7?” she hummed softly. “Who says I need a bodyguard? I don’t need one. Please leave.”
“Sorry, I’ve taken the order from your father. This is my job, so please cooperate.” he said calmly andindifferently.
Angela pulled her sleeping gown together, and her face was blushing. “You’re my bodyguard, right?Please stand at the door.”
Startled, Richard turned around and stood at the door with his back straight and upright.
Then, she took a deep breath and thought, Why did my father suddenly hire a bodyguard?
She had said before that she didn’t need a bodyguard to disturb her life.
“Where’s my mom?” she asked the maid.
“Madam has gone out. Do you want to have breakfast, Miss?”
“It’s okay.” She wanted to leave the house to relax herself. Hence, she turned around and wentupstairs.
Ten minutes later, she changed into simple casual wear and went downstairs with a backpack. It wasdefinitely an outfit one would wear out.
She glanced at the man who was guarding the door, only to realize that he was really tall. Her five-foot-four height made her look small in front of him.
When she walked out the main door, the man at the back followed behind her. Noticing that, she turnedaround and warned him, “Don’t follow me.”
“I’m just doing my job to protect you. I won’t disturb your life.”
“I don’t need your protection.” Angela just wanted to be alone as she didn’t want anyone to see herdevastated look.
“You can just pretend that I’m not here.” A low and husky voice resonated in her ears.
She lifted her head and studied him from head to toe. Pretend that he’s not here?
She felt pressured by this man, and his eyes were so deep like a black hole that she couldn’t guesswhat he was thinking. She felt that the biggest danger might be from him.
“You’re six-foot-two, and you’re asking me to pretend that I’m not here? You tell me. How can I dothat?” she asked him.
Hearing that, Richard was speechless. It was not in the document that this girl was difficult to get alongwith. “Anyhow, you can’t go out on your own,” he said calmly.
Since she couldn’t be bothered by him, she took out her car keys and unlocked her car. Just as shepulled the door open and sat inside to put on her seatbelt, a figure sat down beside her in thepassenger seat.
“You…” Angela was offended.
“I need to be with you if you want to go out.” Richard stared at her, undisputed.
At this moment, she felt as though she was being threatened by this new bodyguard. Her father hiredhim to protect her, but he dared to talk to her like this? Was he her boss?
She didn’t care about him and floored the accelerator after starting the car. Instantly, he felt a strongimpact pushing him backward, and he turned to look at this girl. Her eyes were obviously filled withstrong dissatisfaction toward him.
At this moment, laughter came into his earpiece. “This Miss Meyers is hard to deal with, Richard. Goodluck!”
He held tightly on the handle and let this girl take out all her dissatisfaction at this moment. In the end,Angela also realized that she shouldn’t be driving this recklessly, so she regained her calm after drivingoff the road in front of her house.
“How much is my dad paying you? I’ll pay you double for you to get down now.” Angela turned herhead and stared at Richard.
“I only have one boss, and that’s your father.”
“How about this? I have this card with one million inside. You can have it, and I’ll talk to my dad,” shesaid capriciously.
Hearing that, Richard shook his head and wasn’t moved by her offer.
Angela was surprised. He rejects me without even thinking? Is he not doing this job for the money?There’s such a good chance for him to earn money in front of him now, but he doesn’t want it?
Was he a moron?
At this moment, his team members’ voices sounded in his ears. “Richard, we just lost track of Phantomand his gang. Their sensor shielding devices blocked our tracking sensors.”
“They might show up in front of Miss Meyers any time from now. Watch out and be careful.”
As soon as he heard that, Richard frowned.
At this very moment, a car has stopped at the red light. Angela noticed that the red light was not goingto turn green soon, so she readjusted the rearview mirror and grabbed a lipstick out of her bag toreapply it. It was primarily owing to the awkward environment that the serious-looking man seated nextto her created.
She felt like she had to do something to end the awkwardness. Richard, sitting beside her, tilted hishead as she went to reapply her lipstick, and he saw her take off the cap and reapply it to her lips.
“What are you staring at?” Angela shifted her gaze to him.
“Nothing.”
Angela had an epiphany and asked, “Are you interested in me? And what exactly are you planning todo to me?”
Richard replied with a straight-forward gaze, “Nothing.”
“You look like you do! Hah! Why did you even say that you are here to protect me? You should be themost dangerous one there.” Angela looked at him with a pair of beautiful eyes.
Richard frowned when she said that, but his teammates laughed out loud, which he could hear on hisearpiece. Listening to their typically dignified captain get embarrassed was a rare treat.
“Richard, give in to her already! However, you’re not at a loss because Miss Meyers is so pretty.” Andhe could hear someone beginning to boo at him.
Richard took off his earpiece, put them in his pocket, and told Angela next to him, “It’s green now.”
Angela bit her red lips in annoyance. Why couldn’t she get rid of him? She couldn’t stand the thought ofspending the day with him.
“Get out of the car and buy me breakfast! I’m hungry, “Angela said to him as she looked at a churrostall on the side of the road. Instantly, she pulled over, pointed to the stall, and said, “I would likechurros and a glass of milk. Go and buy it for me!”
Richard gave her a glance before unbuckling his seat belt and exiting the car. Once he bought the foodand turned around, Angela gave him a smug smile before stepping on the gas. She fled, abandoninghim.
He looked at her as she drove off. Without wasting any time, he gave the man in the next car a quickglance, opened the passenger door, and pointed in the direction of the red SUV. “Follow that car.”
The man exclaimed in confusion, “Who are you?”
“Police.” The powerful glare of Richard’s eyes swept across him. The man was so scared that hestarted following the red car after being instructed by Richard to do so.
Angela drove a long way on purpose before stopping at a traffic light. She did this to get rid of herbodyguard for good. She was glad she had gotten away from her bodyguard, so she started to thinkabout where to head next.
A giant hand slid in through the half-open window of her car and pushed the button to unlock it. Thebodyguard quickly slid back into the passenger seat and handed her breakfast while keeping his cool.
“You…” Angela’s eyes narrowed slightly. She could not believe he had caught up to her so quickly.
Then, in a calm tone, Richard said, “I told you I would protect you from danger.”
“But there is no danger! Why would you want to protect me? If anything happens, I’ll contact the police.You don’t need to follow me all the time. Thank you for your kindness, but please get out of the car,”Angela told him bluntly to leave.
Richard put the breakfast on the center console, then closed his eyes and folded his arms in front of hischest as if he were trying to nap. He refused to get out of the car.
Angela bit on her red lips and tried to endure it. She then pressed the gas pedal and drove away.
She was oblivious that a well-covered black SUV was tailing her from three cars behind her. Two menand a woman were in the car, all staring ferociously at her car.
“The target is in the car. There is also a man beside her.”
“He is just a weakling. What are you worried about?!”
“Just keep up with them and wait for the proper moment to strike. First, take Angela’s bag and look forthe lipstick inside. If you can’t find it, you could take the girl hostage and ask her where the lipstick is.Do it discreetly.”
Their leader, known only as Grey Wolf, issued the directive over the phone.
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Angela kept driving around until they were finally out of the city. Eventually, she stopped under amountain in a remote area. There were a few cars in the parking lot adjacent to it, but not many peoplewent trekking at this hour.
After they had gotten out of the car, Richard instinctively felt that they were in danger. Indeed, a blackSUV crashed directly into Angela’s car. She saw her car being knocked over just as a man and awoman hurried down, and the woman came to grab her bag.
Angela bumped into Richard’s strong back when he pulled the confused girl behind him.
She watched as the woman frantically emptied the contents of her bag onto the ground, her attentiondrawn to the lipstick that had fallen out. She picked it up, did a quick check to see that it wasn’t whatshe wanted, and then saw that there was nothing else in the bag.
“It’s not here,” she spoke in a foreign language to her companion.
“What are you doing? Why did you search my bag?” Angela questioned her fiercely as she stepped outfrom behind Richard.
Richard warned her in a deep voice, “Stand behind me and don’t go away.”
“Get her!” the woman yelled furiously as she stared at Angela with piercing red eyes.
Richard furrowed his brow as the other two men walked forward. He knew that this was not themoment to deal with the trio since priority was given to protecting Angela from harm.
He grabbed her hand, turned around, and started running in the direction of the forest. “Run.”
Angela also realized that these three individuals were extremely dangerous. The eyes of the threepeople staring at her were horrifying as if beasts were attempting to tear her apart. Still, she had noidea who they were!
Instinctively, she knew she had to flee, so she released Richard’s hand and ran for the mountains andforests.
In contrast, Richard was speechless as she released his hand. Since she could flee and escapedanger deliberately, he had to focus on anything else.
He turned around and tumbled over his shoulders, knocking another man to the ground. Still, the otherman and woman were already heading straight for Angela.
Richard quickly caught up to the woman, and she immediately pulled out a sharp army knife. Clearly,she was not an average individual. She was a skilled martial arts fighter.
“Who are you? I would suggest you mind your own business.” The woman snarled in English andstabbed Richard.
Richard did not respond to her, but he always dodged her attacks. He was unfazed by the woman’srepeated attempts to stab him. The expression of disbelief flashed across her face. No ordinary mancould be that well trained in combat.
Despite this, she was aware that her companion was already pursuing the girl, so all she needed to dowas hold this man off for a little while.
Nonetheless, Richard did not have time to waste on her. He deftly snatched her knife, attempted to aimat her thigh to prevent her from fleeing, and knew that her companion would return to save her.
The man that Richard knocked out earlier has woken up. He abruptly drew a gun and fired in Richard’sdirection. Fortunately, Richard ducked aside to avoid the bullet and was compelled to abandon hisattempt to harm the woman. He did not waste any time and started chasing after Angela.
He was a fast runner and heard a woman’s calls for assistance coming ahead of him.
“Aah— Help!”
Richard’s heart tightened upon hearing the distress calls. With the help of his long legs, he rushedtoward the source of the sound, where he saw a man grabbing Angela’s arm. He was holding a knife atthe time, so he threw it at the man’s arm, where it pierced a specific spot.
Angela’s face was only a hair’s breadth away from the guy’s arm, so blood splattered all over it, andher face instantly turned white.
What gave that bodyguard such confidence that he could throw the knife? And what if, instead of thegangster, he stabbed her in the face?
The man let go of his hand out of agony but instantly seized Angela with his other hand. She struggledand ultimately sat on the ground, but the man persisted in his attempts to grab her. Being pinned under
him, she felt like a defenseless kitten.
Angela was in so much pain that she was on the verge of passing out when she looked up just in timeto witness her bodyguard deliver a punch to the man who had caught her. He soon collapsed to theground.
Angela watched in awe as he delivered vicious blows with that menacing look on his face. Due to theextreme fear she was experiencing, she retreated in a hurry. In her eyes, this bodyguard was not likeany other bodyguard she had encountered. He exuded a chilling aura that was as much as dangerousas the gangsters themselves.
A man and a woman from earlier caught up to them. Richard released the man in his grip and turnedaround to grab Angela as she attempted to stand. Before Angela could react, he shoved her to theground, and her head landed hard on the floor with a thud. Angela was about to flare up when sheheard loud banging noises.
It was the sounds of gunfire.
Her heart raced frantically. Oh, good heavens! What in the world is happening?
Before thinking about it, she was yanked into Richard’s arms as he began to roll on the ground.
Angela suddenly felt dizzy and was unable to compose herself. Richard’s eyes lightened as soon as hesaw a trench next to them, and he began to shove her down into it.
“Aah—!” She was utterly unprepared as she fell into it. Since the trench was neither deep or shallowwith clear water, the water splattered all over her face and body.
“Aah—” Angela screamed in anguish.
Richard ignored her screams from behind him as he confronted three dangerous gangsters.
“Who are you?” the woman in the lead questioned furiously.
“You have no right to know,” he sneered.
“Kill him.” The woman turned her head and gave orders to her subordinates.
The man who had a gun earlier pulled it out and immediately shot at Richard without hesitation. Andinstead of retreating, Richard stayed in place and dodged his shots.
He was like an advanced machine, as he accurately predicted the man’s shots and evaded the bulletsevery time they were fired.
“You trash,” the woman cursed violently, believing her subordinate intentionally missed the shot.
Meanwhile, the armed man was so afraid that he started to doubt his ability. He aimed for the man’svitals, but his shots always missed.
This time, the woman snatched the gun from her subordinate, intending to do it herself, but Richardkicked the gun away as soon as she took it. Richard kicked one of the men in the chest to gain furtherspeed before jumping up and out of the way as the gun was flung into the air. Two loud bangs wereheard when he returned to the ground, and each man was hit in the thighs by a bullet. The sound of thetrigger being pulled was heard near the woman’s neck.
The woman was in despair now that she had grasped her predicament.
“Do you belong to that organization?” Her face was pale and lifeless since she was fully aware of theconsequences of her actions.
Angela was about to cry in the trench. Not only was she soaked, she was also covered in mud fromhead to toe. The stench of mud nearly made her puke.
What annoyed her the most was that the bodyguard threw her down like she was an object. The trenchwas almost six feet tall. Even if she wasn’t shot, she was still at risk of being killed due to the depth ofthe trench. Could he be gentler, even if it was to protect her?
She struggled to clamber up from the muddy slope on the side after hearing no noise from the top.Three helicopters were flying over her head with overwhelming momentum at the time.
Angela couldn’t help but wonder why helicopters would appear out of nowhere. They also appeared tobe military in nature. Why were these people after her? Has she offended any gangsters? She shookher head, trying to figure out why, but all she could think about was how nice she was. She had nevercommitted a crime, so what triggered these violent gangsters?
Two helicopters landed in the parking lot, but the third landed immediately on the grass patch. Themassive propeller created a loud noise, and the wind was so strong that it caused the trees andgrasses next to it to sway violently.
As soon as Angela reached the top ledge, she saw the woman and two men who had been chasingher. While her bodyguard was pointing a gun at the woman’s neck, two of the men were unconsciousand lying on the ground nearby. It would appear that her bodyguard had no trouble dealing with thesethree.
Angela could not help but to stare in shock. She did not know that her bodyguard was that good.
At that moment, she felt a murderous gaze being aimed at her. It was coming from that woman havinga gun being pointed at her head and she was staring at Angela with hostility.
“Why did you bump into me at the airport? Why did you steal my lipstick?!”
Hearing that, Angela came to the realization and took a closer look at the woman. Although shechanged her clothes, she managed to recognize her.
“You… You’re the one I bumped into at the airport earlier?” Angela could not believe that this womanwould bring two accomplices, who were armed with guns, to come hunt her down just for that.
Meanwhile, there were four young men who were getting off the helicopter. They were all dressed incamouflage uniforms. All of them were tall and hot. It could be told by just a glance that they were partof the elite special forces.
After getting off the helicopter, one of them noticed Angela. He could not help but to break into a fit oflaughter.
The other three were also trying real hard to hold back their laughter. What happened to this beautifullady in the captain’s care within just a single day?
“Give the lipstick back to me. If you don’t, trust me, you will be dead meat,” the woman yelled angrily atAngela.
Angela was puzzled as she inquired, “What lipstick?”
“When you bumped into me at the airport earlier, you took my lipstick away from me. That lipstick was aUSB drive which was worth 70 million.” The woman, who was being handcuffed, stared at Angela asshe spoke.
“Take them away.” Richard ordered his subordinates because he did not want the woman to talk toomuch.
After the three of them were taken away from there by another troop, the four of Richard’s subordinatesand a soaked, filthy Angela having a swollen bump on her forehead, were the only ones being left at
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“Hey! Don’t you think you’ve gone too far? Are you really a professional bodyguard? I could’ve beenkilled by you before I was even shot to death. How could you push me down from such a high place?!”She finally remembered to question the way Richard handled the situation earlier. So, she pointed athim furiously.
His four subordinates were standing beside them and watching. They wonder whether their captainknew what it meant by being a gentleman toward girls.
They took pity on the pretty and gentle Miss Meyers, who had ended this way after just one day ofbeing together with their captain.
“It was an urgent situation. I had no choice but to do so. Bullets have no eyes. You could be dead if youwere shot by one of them,” he said calmly without any hint of guilt.
Angela then pointed at her red and swollen forehead. “What about this? Why did you have to hit myhead so hard against the floor? What if that caused me a concussion and turned me into a retarded?Would you take responsibility for that?”
Hearing this, all four of Richard’s subordinates turned their heads around and stared at their captain inunison as if they were judging him. That’s not very nice of you!
“If it wasn’t for me, you could’ve been killed earlier. You wouldn’t even have the chance to stand hereand complain about what I’ve done,” Richard replied indifferently.
“What… What kind of person did your bodyguard company train you to be? I wonder how much my dadhad spent on such an irresponsible bodyguard like you. You’re fired!” Angela gritted her teeth as shesuddenly felt uncomfortable. She was wearing a sports bra underneath. So, she pulled the zipper downand took off her jacket.
The five men present had wide eyes as they stared at Angela in disbelief. How could she not treat themas outsiders?
She had given a strip show in front of them just like that!
“Turn around.” Richard swept his gaze toward the four subordinates and ordered.
The next moment, he took off his black shirt and handed it to Angela as he said, “Wear this first.”
Angela looked disgusted as she refused. “I don’t want to.”
“You’re a girl.”
“Captain, that’s not fair! Why is it that you can watch it, but we can’t?” One of the team memberscomplained.
“Captain?” Angela frowned, looked at Richard, and then looked at those four guys. “Why are youcalling him captain? Are you from the same bodyguard company as him?”
“Miss Meyers, we are not from a bodyguard company. We belong to a branch of the special forces, butunfortunately, we can’t disclose much details about our organization.”
“So, you aren’t from the bodyguard company?” Angela took a step back. She had a suddenpremonition of danger. Who on earth did I offend?
Richard frowned. “Let’s talk about it when we get back. Wear this now.”
Angela bit her lip, then reached her hand out to take his shirt, and draped it over her body in disgust.As she looked up, a perfect physique of Richard which was being bathed in sunlight appeared in herview.
Even though Angela had a boyfriend, she still stared at the man in front of her for a few seconds.
After all, the chances for her to see such a perfect body again were really low.
“Richard, can we turn around now?” someone asked.
Richard answered in a deep voice, “We’re heading back now.”
Angela was escorted to the helicopter because her car was smashed and it was unable to be usedanymore. So, it had to be handled by the towing company.
After that, all of them got on the helicopter. Just as the helicopter took off, Angela felt frightened by thefeeling of weightlessness even though she was wearing her seat belt.
“Ah—” She instinctively wrapped her arms around the person next to her and hugged him tightly,burying her small face in his bare chest.
Richard’s body tensed, and his sharp brows furrowed. He looked down at the woman, who washugging him like an animal on the brink of death.
“The helicopter is safe. Let go of me,” he ordered hoarsely.
Angela blushed and let go of him. She didn’t want to offend him, but there was no one else here thatshe could hug except him.
Noticing what happened, his subordinates deliberately teased them and brought the helicopter to asudden drop.
“Ah—” The next second, while Angela blushed, she hugged Richard tightly again as her heartpounded.
“Trevor, are you trying to dig your own grave?” Richard gave the pilot in the cockpit a warning glare.
Trevor Hemmings smiled and dared not joke around anymore.
Steadily, he flew the helicopter back to their base.
An hour later, Angela took a shower to clean herself up from head to toes in the bathroom. After shecame out of the shower, she was surprised to see a set of clean and tidy camouflage uniforms on herbed. Who are these people? Why is there military equipment everywhere here?
When Angela recalled what happened in the morning, she felt terrible and found her mysteriousbodyguard to be even more hateful.
She opened the door and came out to see a man sitting on the sofa operating a computer. It wasRichard.
“Hey, your name is Gideon Lambert, right?” Angela questioned him in irritation. She merely heard thename from him this morning, but she was not completely sure if it was his name.
“My name is Richard Lloyd.” Richard raised his head to correct her.
“Great! You even lied to me about your name. What else are you hiding from me? Also, are you anundercover spy? How do you know I am in danger?”
“You bumped into a woman at the airport yesterday, and that woman was holding lipstick. Your lipstickshave been swapped. Now, I need you to tell me where the lipstick that you picked up at the airportyesterday was.” Richard’s eyes were fixed on her.
Angela could not help looking at him in shock while taking a seat opposite him. “Those three peoplecame after me today just because I wore the wrong lipstick? Is that lipstick really so important?”
“It was actually a USB drive with research results worth 70 million being saved in it. Now, you tell me, isit important?” Richard had no intention of hiding the truth from her.
Angela held her breath. Who the hell did I bump into?
“Who are they?”
“They are the world’s top thieves and international serial criminals. I’m asking you about the lipstick.”The most important thing for Richard now was the whereabouts of the lipstick.
Lipstick? Angela’s beautiful eyes widened slightly. “I… I threw it away yesterday into my backyard!”
Richard was stunned to hear that. He shut the computer and yelled angrily, “Why did you throw itaway?”
“I thought it was mine, and this lipstick was given by my boyfriend. He broke up with me and is gettingmarried with another woman now. So, I just threw away all the things that he gave me in a fit of anger.How was I supposed to know that that lipstick had such a big secret in it?” Angela was alsospeechless.