"BANG!"

The words had barely left his mouth when a gunshot suddenly rang out, striking Miles Hawthorne in the thigh.

Miles Hawthorne let out a pained grunt, his body swaying in mid-air.

He looked at Walker Grant and managed a pained smile. "Was I wrong? Julian Grant came looking for Chloe Reed back then, but he saw you two together, so he left."

Then, he suddenly burst out laughing. "Hahaha... Walker Grant, you accepted her confession so quickly back then. Were you afraid your own older brother would beat you to it?"

Walker Grant’s eyes turned colder, the expression on his handsome face frigid. He raised the pistol in his hand and fired again, this time hitting Miles Hawthorne’s other leg.

Chloe Reed listened, her face filled with disbelief. She stared at Miles Hawthorne incredulously. "What nonsense are you talking about? Julian was already with Sunny Reed back then."

"No..." Miles Hawthorne said, shaking his head. "He went drinking to drown his sorrows after he looked for you, and *then* he got together with Sunny Reed."

Chloe Reed froze.

If she didn’t know the truth about the earthquake, she might have been confused about why Julian had come looking for her.

But now that she knew the truth about the earthquake... ’Did Julian come looking for me to talk about what happened during the disaster?’

After all, she was the one who had saved him.

A complicated emotion flickered in Chloe Reed’s eyes. She lowered her gaze slightly. ’What’s the use of talking about this now?’

’All these years, she had firmly believed the one she saved was Walker Grant.’

’She had risked her life to save him because she loved him.’

’It wasn’t that she saved a person and then fell in love.’ 𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂

She had already come to terms with it.

Besides, Julian was gone now.

However, her contemplative expression looked like something else entirely in Walker Grant’s eyes.

His eyes grew darker, a cold, hostile energy churning in their depths. The look he shot Miles Hawthorne was so intense it was as if he wanted to flay him alive.

Miles Hawthorne seemed to enjoy his furious expression, saying nonchalantly, "Angry? Furious? Then just kill me."

"Wouldn’t that be letting you off easy?" Walker Grant holstered his pistol and turned to Chloe Reed. "Nothing else matters. What’s important is that he won’t name his mastermind, so we have no reason to go easy on him."

Chloe Reed snapped out of her reverie and nodded. "Yes, you’re right."

Then, she drew her pistol.

Seeing this, Miles Hawthorne closed his eyes and said, "I have no regrets about dying at your hands."

"But I’m not going to let you die."

Chloe Reed looked at him coldly. "I’ve never done anything to hurt you, yet you’ve tried to have me killed time and time again. Miles Hawthorne, you owe me far too much."

She raised her pistol and, just as Walker Grant had taught her, aimed and fired!

The bullet tore through Miles Hawthorne’s ribs. His face contorted in agony!

"Your aim was off."

Walker Grant walked over, stood behind her, and took her hand. "Don’t shatter his organs, or he’ll die faster. Aim here..."

He taught Chloe Reed how to aim, his large hand steadily supporting hers.

They were using Miles Hawthorne as target practice!

When Miles Hawthorne realized this, his pupils contracted. He gritted his teeth and snarled, "Walker Grant, Chloe Reed, just give me a quick death! Kill me!"

But they ignored him.

Miles Hawthorne’s expression twisted into a snarl. "Kill me! Kill me!"

After a few more gunshots, Miles Hawthorne was still alive, his expression numb.

"Why don’t you kill me?"

Chloe Reed was tired. She looked at him coldly. "That would be letting you off too easy."