The Enticing CEO’s Chosen Bride
Chatper 1670

Chatper 1670

Chapter 1670

Everyone watched him walk away. The palpable tension seemed to thicken, hanging heavy in theair.

Damon sat motionless, and his lips were pressed into a thin line.

Chloe held the apple Damon had just given her. Juice trickled through her fingers, but she was at aloss for words. She was usually adept at diffusing uncomfortable situations or replaceing solutions, butthis time, she felt out of her depth.

Matters of the heart were never her strong suit. She had seen Stanley's emotional outburst anddidn't know how to pretend it hadn't happened. She had no idea how to face Stanley, let alone howto explain the situation to Damon..

Promises made so earnestly were broken just as easily. She didn't want to hurt Stanley, but she wascompletely clueless about what to do.

She took a bite of the apple, and her expression was still stricken. Her mind was filled with the lookon Stanley's face, something she had never seen before.

Damon watched her from the corner of his eye, realizing that his presence was not reflected in hercurrent state of mind. His heart tightened. He had only said those things to make Stanley give up onChloe, but now, it seemed to have backfired.

“What are you thinking about?" His voice, deep and icy cold, broke the silence.

Chloe blinked, turning to look at him. A complex emotion flickered in her eyes.

Damon's face darkened. Chloe placed the apple on the coffee table, using a napkin to wipe herhand. She sank back into the couch.

"No... nothing."

In this world, there were some things that, no matter how much you pondered over, you could neverreplace a perfect solution. Even a near-perfect solution wouldn't cut it. The only answer was how selfishyou truly were.

Damon watched her silently for a while. Even though he knew she was troubled, he still didn't knowwhat to say.

After a long pause, he finally stood up and ordered Nate, "Get ready. We're heading back to the citytomorrow."

"Yes, sir!"

Nate quickly acknowledged Damon. Sensing the chilly atmosphere, he hesitated before asking, "Sir,about Ms.

Alonso's situation, what are our plans once we return to the city?"

Damon contemplated for a moment before responding, "She's dead."

Nate glanced at Chloe before nodding. "Understood."

Wendy was dead.

She died in the gray zone on the outskirts of P City, a place everyone avoided.

By the time Chloe and the others returned to P City the next day, this news had already exploded inthe media.

No one had any sympathy for Wendy's death. She had brought it upon herself, not respectingothers’ lives. She was the one who started the kidnapping, so why would anyone feel sorry for herwhen she ended up dead?

Chloe didn't expect Daron to blow up the situation like this. She thought it would only be revealed ifsomeone asked. But now, it was clear that Damon had deliberately stirred up the incident. Shedidn't know what he was up to, but she didn't bother to replace out either. With him handling theaftermath, she didn't need to worry.

However...

With one Wendy gone, there would be another Wendy...

Not long after they returned, Yasmine and the others were confirmed to be safe, Cole and Graceimmediately

came to visit.

The media and the Alonso family currently surrounded the Harper family's mansion. Presley made acall and summoned Damon and Chloe back.

Right now, the Harper family was in complete chaos. Grace sat in the yard of the mansion, holdinga newspaper, crying, and screaming.

Presley stood on the side with a cane. His face was ashen, and his muscles were tremblingintermittently. He glared furiously at the two arriving with a bunch of bodyguards.

Grace saw the two of them and immediately got up from the ground, rushing towards Damon. "Tellme! Where did you hide my daughter? How could she possibly be dead? Did you hide her?!"

Grace was stopped by two bodyguards two meters away from him. "Damon, give me back mydaughter!

Bastard! What did my daughter do to you for you to be so heartless?!"

Chloe frowned, and as expected, she couldn't stand to see Damon being “bullied.” "Your daughter istruly dead."

She used the simplest words to hurt Grace.

Grace abruptly looked up at her. Her eyes were filled with rage, looking just like Wendy's crazedexpression.

"Vou.

“That's right, it's me." She admitted in a light tone, shocking everyone around her with herindifference toward a human life. "If I could, I would want to feed her a few more bullets. I shouldn'thave let her die so easily!"

Grace swayed, her eyes rolling back as she almost fainted. “You..."

"I've always said, don't provoke me. If you don’t mess with me, we can coexist peacefully. Beforeyou came here to demand the Harper family for your daughter, you should know that she was theone who kidnapped my mother first. She took my mother to such a dangerous place and lured methere with the intention of taking our lives. Now, she's only reaping what she sowed"

She left everyone speechless with her words. Grace's face was ghastly. Her lips were trembling,and she didn't know what to say.

The pain of losing a child was not something one could fake, but that didn't mean she deservedsympathy.

"Is she really dead? Did you really kill her?"

Grace still found it hard to grasp the reality of the situation. After all, without witnessing it herself, itseemed unfathomable that her daughter could have met such a fate while everyone else seemed tobe just fine.

"Damon, this can't be happening, can it?" She implored. “No matter what she did wrong, it wasbecause she cared for you, right? You grew up together, you wouldn't just stand by and watch herget killed, would you?"

Damon's response was chilling. “She deserved what she got."

"But you two was still alive. Even if you wanted to punish her, why did it have to end this way..."

“Ms. Grace,’ Chloe cut her off. “It was your daughter who dragged me into this deadly game. If shehadn't died, it would have been me and my mother instead! You'd better get clear about the stakeshere."