Chapter 1396: 1395: Life Preserved

The room was steeped in a hazy, seductive tension of desire. His large hand finally drifted onto Charlotte Knight’s leg and froze there, unable to keep going. Damn it, the fire low in his abdomen was burning his mouth and tongue dry.

He simply broke off the kiss, stood up, and rushed downstairs!

Charlotte’s body went weak, and only after he left did she slowly come back to her senses in secret, staring in the direction he’d gone.

She had never had such close contact with a man before; this time she’d run into him by sheer accident.

Agreeing to help him was entirely because of the guilt in her heart!

Yes, the one who’d molested her in the bar that night hadn’t been him, but she’d smashed a bottle down and left him seriously injured.

Even though he’d never blamed her, and had even secretly tried to help her, right now, to make up for what she’d done, she had no choice but to agree to him first.

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A flashy Porsche sports car was parked downstairs at the villa. On the way over, Arthur Easton had driven himself back in a rush.

Now he had to get back in the car and drive away immediately.

His big brother was hurt all because of him!

If it weren’t for him, how would his brother be lying in the ICU right now?

Arthur only found out later that Eva Nightingale was Lucas Knight’s wife, which meant she was Charlotte Knight’s sister-in-law.

Over there, the Imperial President Lucas Knight must assume his big brother stole his woman, right? So he had his men hurt his brother like that!

In a situation like this, if any man had his wife taken by someone else, there’s no way he’d stay calm.

But his big brother was still his big brother. No matter what, he’d always been incredibly good to him, so Arthur’s heart was in utter turmoil, terrified that this time his brother would never wake up...

Thinking of that day, of how he’d been wheeled into the hospital covered in blood, Arthur couldn’t stop himself from shuddering all over. He immediately got into the car, started the engine, and drove the sports car away.

...

By the time he reached the hospital, it was already the middle of the night. He hurriedly jumped out of the car and rushed into the hospital.

"Wow, Second Young Master!!"

"Second Young Master is so handsome—"

A group of women clustered at the hospital entrance. They screamed when they saw such a dazzlingly gorgeous man.

But Arthur was in too much of a hurry; he dashed straight into the elevator, with no time to spare a glance at the pack of beauties.

Outside the emergency department, a group of Bodyguards were waiting.

To think, if it weren’t for Eva Nightingale that day, how could things have ended up like this!?

He honestly couldn’t understand why his big brother had agreed to Eva’s request and gone with her alone.

"Second Young Master, you’re here?" Gideon Linwood hurried over.

"Yeah. How’s my brother?" He looked up—the emergency room light was still on, glowing red.

"The Eldest Young Master..." Gideon had just opened his mouth to answer when he caught sight of the red light over the emergency room suddenly going out.

Right after, the ER doors swung open with a "click."

The attending specialist came out in a white coat. "Second Young Master! Mr. Xi’s life is temporarily out of danger..."

At those words, everyone finally let out the breath they’d been holding.

"It’s just that, Second Young Master... Mr. Xi will probably have to lie here in the hospital for a while before he wakes up." The Doctor wiped the sweat from his forehead. "He has multiple gunshot and knife wounds. The fact that he’s still alive is already a blessing in the midst of disaster..."

Just now, when they’d been busy in the emergency room, the specialists had all been operating under the shadow of death, carefully extracting the bullets.

They knew that if they failed to save this man, their own deaths would be next.

"Hoo—" Arthur let out a long breath of relief and rushed into the ER.

The man on the hospital bed was deathly pale.