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Chapter 769: Fearlessly Blocking the Blade (19)
Chapter 769: Fearlessly Blocking the Blade (19)
Chapter 769: Chapter 769: Fearlessly Blocking the Blade (19)
Howard Coleman’s eyes were dark and deep. When he met Madeleine’s gaze, he moved his lips as if to say something, but no words came out. The next second, his vision went black, and he fell.
Madeleine quickly reached out and caught Howard’s falling body.
The weight of the man was too much for her to bear, so she slowly knelt to the ground. As she tightly held onto Howard, she saw large amounts of blood flowing from the arm that wrapped around him, staining the ancient and old ground and giving off a nauseating stench.
This was all Howard’s blood… Tears pooled in Madeleine’s eyes, falling like broken pearls, one following another, hitting the ground with force.
She knew that the man had already fainted, unable to hear her voice. But she still used all her strength to shake his shoulders, screaming desperately, “Why? Why?”
As Madeleine continued to shout, her voice was soon drowned out by her sobs. In the end, she lay on Howard’s chest, crying like a lost child.
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It was while Madeleine was holding onto Howard and constantly asking “why” that Rusell Henris regained his senses and called the police on his phone.
At that time, Ruby Gregory had already struggled free from Steve Burton’s embrace. Her legs trembling, she walked over to the weeping Madeleine and embraced her tightly.
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The roads in Ciawell were always good at night; the ambulance arrived two minutes before the police. When Howard was lifted onto the ambulance with the help of the paramedics, three police cars appeared at the entrance of the alley with sirens blaring and lights flashing.
The police officers hurried forward, handcuffed the battered men lying on the ground, and took them away in the police cars.
They had to split up because they needed to give their statements. Rusell went to the police station with the police officers, while the others followed the ambulance to the nearby Public Hospital.
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When Rusell arrived at the hospital after giving his statement, Howard was still being treated in the operating room.
It was already three in the morning. Nurses rushed in and out of the operating room, carrying bags of blood.
Madeleine sat wordlessly at the edge of a resting chair in the corridor, staring blankly at the lights in the operating room.
Ruby sat next to her, feeling Madeleine’s hand trembling in her grasp, never stopping since the beginning.
The quietness in the corridor was somewhat eerie, with only the echoes of Rusell’s footsteps. When his footsteps stopped, Steve Burton and Edward Woods both looked up at him.
Rusell cast a glance at the “Resuscitating” sign in the operating room, his voice tense as he asked, “How is Howard doing?”
Steve had no reaction, but Edward slowly shook his head and said softly, “He’s still being resuscitated.”
After a pause, Edward asked, “How did it go at the police station?”
“They all confessed.” Rusell gave a brief answer. After a moment, he looked at Steve and continued, “Those guys had taken money from Maya Mitchell to target Ruby specifically. When they confessed, the police had already dispatched officers to arrest her.”
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