"Davon!"
Phoenix was heartbroken.
Was he crazy?
Didn't he know that he was thought dead in Country F? How could he come out?
A smile spread over the handsome face. He said, "As long as I am with you, no one can hurt you."
He spoke in a low voice, so only Phoenix could hear it. Memories suddenly came crowding into her
mind.
Davon rolled out of the battlefield where flames raged around with Phoenix tightly in his arms. He said,
"As long as I am with you, no one can hurt you."
At that time, she was fine, but Davon was covered in bruises.
Back then, she was eighteen, and he was in his twenties.
In those days, Davon was thin and weak and looked pale. Although he was physically delicate, he had
dared to save her again and again.
Phoenix had a bad headache. The fragments of memories that she had forgotten were pieced together.
They had known each other a long time ago.
They used to be so close.
Phoenix smelt the blood of him. She burst into tears.
"Stupid."
"Don't cry."
Davon wiped her tears. A pocket pistol slid down from his sleeve. He aimed at the temple of the guard
captain.
The captain was killed by a single shot from the pistol with a silencer.
The other guards did not know what to do when they found their leader dead.
At this moment, Kim returned.
When he saw that Davon's back was injured and Phoenix was crying hard, his eyes turned red with
rage.
"I'll kill you bastards!"
He went mad and fired shots at the guards.
They said the Sawyers had rebelled.
So what if he did rebel?
Davon heard the gunshot. He instantly looked back and frowned when he saw Kim was going wild.
"Phoenix, take good care of yourself. The Sawyers can't escape unscathed today. My father is gone. I
need to protect his only child."
"Let me do it!"
Phoenix knew the importance of the Sawyers to Davon.
She had her memories back.
She remembered everything about Davon in the past.
Since he was her man, she would take everything he faced.
In the past, Davon had always saved her regardless of danger. She wanted to help him this time.
Phoenix pushed Davon behind her. Even now, she was thinking that Davon could not be exposed.
She jumped up and kicked Kim away. The next second, the bullet flew past Kim's ear.
Kim was startled. Soon he realized that Phoenix had saved him. Before he could say anything, Phoenix
had joined the battle.
Kim had mixed feelings.
"Hurry and leave!"
Davon endured the pain and pulled Kim.
"Why did you come back?"
"I can't leave you alone! It's the matter of the Sawyer Family!"
Kim suddenly cried like a child.
Since childhood, they had grown up together. Although they were unrelated by blood, the ties of
brotherhood were tight.
Davon's eyes were moist.
He grabbed and hugged Kim tightly. He whispered, "Kim, I'm a soldier. Leo can't die yet."
Davon wanted to kill Leo more than anyone else, but he couldn't.
Leo had committed so many sins and needed to be tried by many countries. He couldn't just kill Leo for
his personal grudges.
Davon knew that Kim wanted to kill Leo at all costs now. So did he.
But his duty stopped him.
Kim paused for a moment and asked, "Then when?"
"When the evidence of his guilt is exposed to the public."
"But where is the evidence? He's so cunning and cautious. He won't leave any evidence of guilt. He
can get away with it!"
Kim could not stay calm.
Davon did not know how to reply.
Then Phoenix returned.
She looked quite aggressive. Some of the guards had escaped, while most were injured and were lying
on the ground.
Phoenix said in a low voice, "He never leaves any evidence. But we can fake it. As long as people are
convinced, it's the evidence of his crimes."
She seemed to want to give up the relation with Leo by blood.
Kim was slightly stunned.
"You want to frame him?" asked Davon.
"Frame him? He detained the daughters of so many high-ranking officials. He coveted the veins of
Country Z and wanted to take them for himself. He tortured William and forced my mother. All of these
are facts."
"Kim is right. It's very difficult to seek evidence of Leo's crimes. He is very cunning, and wouldn't leave
evidence. Even if he did, only Jayden has it. Before Jayden comes to the throne, it is his most powerful
weapon to threaten Leo. So whatever we do, we can't find any evidence of their crimes. When can we
find it? I can't wait any longer. Leo and Jayden must be tried by the whole world," said Phoenix.
Kim was puzzled at the hatred in Phoenix's eyes.
Wasn't Leo her father?
Why was she so heartless?
Davon seemed to know what Kim was thinking. He whispered, "Her mother was killed by Leo."
This was a secret at court.
Including Phoenix, only a few people knew that her mother did not die of illness, but was executed by
Leo. The only reason for her execution was that she could not offer help in politics for her low status.
He had to kill this wife, so he could marry more powerful ladies.
So her mother needed to die.
Phoenix was only six years old back then.
She would never forget that day on which she was playing hide-and-seek with her mother. She hid in
the wardrobe and waited to be discovered, but only to witness Leo strangle her mother to death.
It was a nightmare, scaring her sweaty every night.
She would never forget Leo's cruelty.
Her mother cried out for help, but he covered her nose and mouth tightly, suffocating her to death.
Phoenix was so frightened. She trembled, but she managed not to make any noise. She was afraid that
Leo would find her having witnessed it and also killed her.
At the age of six, she had understood death.
To live, she swallowed everything. To live, she could not tell anyone the cause of her mother's death.
There wasn't even a funeral for her mother. She was dragged out after death. Some said she was
thrown to the mass graves.
Phoenix braved the elements to head for the mass grave. The corpses terrified her. She trembled as
she searched. In the end, she only found the half body of her mother. The other half had been torn
apart and dragged away by wild beasts.
The six-year-old knew for the first time that crying was useless. She found a clean place and buried the
half body.
She could not carve words or make a tablet. Nor could she tell anyone about her mother's
whereabouts. Every year, she avoided everyone and sneaked out to the mass graves in memory of her
mother.
It was her mother who was mostly by her side in her childhood. The so-called father had never given
her care or love.
The night she found that her mother was killed, she had a severe fever. The maidservant went to Leo
for help, but before she could see Leo, she was beaten out by the guard captain.
Phoenix did not know how she survived. She felt alternately cold and hot. She seemed to see her
mother. Phoenix cried that she wanted to follow her, but was scolded and asked to live strong.
When she woke up, Phoenix was completely exhausted. There was no one beside her. She did not
know how long she had been unconscious, nor did she know how she had recovered from her fever.
Afterward, she found out that it was Ms. Sally, namely Sally Shaw, who had sent someone to give her
medicine, which saved her life.
But before she could thank Sally, Sally died of illness.
Phoenix learned a lot in that year.
She knew that Sally might not have died of illness. Perhaps she was also killed by Leo. But Phoenix
could not avenge her mother and Sally at an early age when she couldn't even protect herself.
Therefore, she escaped on a dark night. She boarded a ship for stowaways to Country Z and met
Samuel there. Only then did she truly survive.
It was ironic that Leo had never looked for her since she had been away for several years. Perhaps she
was unimportant to Leo.
Later on, Phoenix came back. Because of her background, Leo accepted her and conferred the title of
Princess Inez. However, Phoenix knew that Leo had never favored her as his daughter.
She had never told anyone about her stories, except Samuel. So she was surprised when Davon
mentioned the cause of her mother's death.
Davon knew what she was thinking and spoke in a low voice, "Let's leave here first. Leo's guards got
hurt, and they won't let us go. There is a secret passage inside. Let's go."
Previously, Kim had prejudices against Phoenix. But after he heard her story, he felt sympathetic.
Moreover, she was Davon's wife. So Kim finally accepted her.
"Yes, Phoenix, let's go."
His sincerity touched Phoenix. Her eyes became moist.
Davon leaned against Phoenix and whispered, "If you don't leave now, your husband will bleed to
death."
Only then did Phoenix recall Davon's injuries.
"Let's go!"
She supported Davon and quickly entered the secret passage in the Sawyer's with Kim.
Phoenix did not know when Davon had built the secret passage, nor did she know where this secret
passage led. She just trusted and followed them. She said, "I have sent my group to collect evidence of
Jayden framing my father. As long as the evidence is collected, I will expose Jayden's sins. At that
time, there is no way that he can come to the throne."
Davon paused for a moment. Just as he was about to speak, he heard a loud noise outside. The
ground began to tremble. At the same time, the secret passage in front of them collapsed.
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