“We’ve agreed last time. We must talk in private,” said Stanford first.
Amanda said, “Okay. But I hope you can keep your promise. After you’ve told me what you want to
speak, you can’t come to bother me anymore.”
Stanford looked down a bit, his thick eyelashes covering his ink-black pupils. He hummed in a low
voice.
“Let’s go.” He moved first. Amanda followed him.
“Go ahead and tell me what you want to speak. I’m quite busy,” said Amanda impatiently.
Stanford turned to look at her. When he was about to speak, a car parked on the roadside. Seven or
eight men got off with the baseball bats, surrounding Amanda and Stanford together.
“Who are you?” Stanford frowned.
“Are you Stanford James?” The lead didn’t answer his question. Instead, he wanted to confirm
Stanford’s identity.
Stanford stood in front of Amanda protectively. “I am. I’m the one you’re looking for. Let her go.”
“Sure. We’re looking for you. We won’t hurt anyone innocent.” Stanford was their only target.
Stanford didn’t know who they were, but he knew that they came for him. He whispered to Amanda,
“Hurry up and leave here.”
“Who have you offended?” Amanda didn’t leave immediately. Watching the scene, she frowned. “How
dare they do such a thing in broad daylight?”
Stanford noticed that she slightly frowned, and suddenly his heart fluctuated. He wondered if she cared
about him.
“Do you still care about me?” he asked in a gentle tone, trying hard to cover his excitement.
Amanda let out a laugh. “What do your life and death have to do with me?”
Then she turned away without looking back.
Stanford gazed at her receding figure and asked, “If something happens to me, will you remember
me?”
“No, I won’t,” answered Amanda ruthlessly, “You’ve never been in my life.”
Bang--
Suddenly, a bat was smashed on Stanford’s back. He frowned and let out a groan. Then he grabbed
the bat over.
Right then, the seven or eight men rushed to attack him altogether. No matter how capable Stanford
would be, he found it difficult to deal with all of them.
Those men acted strategically. Stanford was good at fighting, but he was still beaten hard.
Amanda didn’t walk far away. When she looked back, she saw Stanford struggling hard while fighting
against the gang. Even if he didn’t have an upper hand, he refused to fall.
Her eyelashes trembled. In the end, she pulled out the phone and called the emergency number. She
whispered to herself, “Just for the sake that we use to know each other.”
Then she yelled, “I’ve called the police. Fuck off if you don’t want to go to jail!”
Upon hearing her voice, Stanford looked back, only to find that Amanda was standing nearby with her
cell phone in her hand. He wondered if she still truly care about him. He confirmed his thought.
Otherwise, she would have left here.
He curled up his lips into a faint smile. He didn’t think it was a misfortune at all. Instead, he felt lucky.
He was so lucky that Amanda still cared about him.
Bang!
A man behind Stanford suddenly smashed the bat on his head. His pupils shrank tightly. Thick blood
oozed among his hair.
“Stanford!” Amanda’s heart was softened at this moment. She trotted towards him, but it was too late.
Stanford fell to the ground.
The men who attacked him hurriedly got in the car and left.
“Stanford--” Amanda hesitated for a moment and squatted down to hold him. “Are you all right?”
Right then, Stanford only saw black. He gradually became unconscious, but seemingly he could still
see the woman in front of him.
He raised his hand...
Before his fingers reached her cheek, his hand fell suddenly.
Amanda wiped the blood on his head. “Stanford James, you still haven’t told me what you want to
speak. You can’t die!”
The police car rushed over and sent him to the hospital.
While Stanford was under rescue, the police asked Amanda to make a statement.
“I don’t know who they are,” said Amanda frankly.
The policeman nodded and said, “The other party must know this location well. They avoided the
location with surveillance. You also don’t remember the car plate. It’s quite difficult for us to investigate.”
“They truly didn’t have a car plate on the car. All I can remember is a black Honda MPV.” Amanda did
check the car.
“There are too many similar cars. Without anything special, it’s quite difficult to find it. According to your
statement, we can roughly guess the other party deliberately has done it. They moved fast and left fast,
leaving without any trace. Has he offended anyone?”
Amanda was taken aback for a moment. She also guessed so. Probably...
That was just her guess only.
“I guess it must be his opponent in business. They wanted to attack him. He’s from City B. Probably
those men came from that city as well.” She deliberately distracted the police’s attention.
She was afraid that those men had something to do with her.
“Okay. We’ll ask the victim for more information after he wakes up. If he wants us to look into this
matter, we’ll contact the police in City B and transfer this case,” said the policeman.
Amanda nodded.
“How’s my brother doing?” George and Atwood rushed in.
Amanda contacted Atwood, and she didn’t know that George was here as well.
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