Chapter 1750


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    Running over to the Veyron, Nash shielded it while yelling, "Sir, you can search what you want, but stop breaking things! Everything here is precious!" Huub saw the red-ck Veyron too, his expression turning cold from sheer jealousy right then.


    "Wait, that gigolo has such a nice car?! Wreck it!" he barked, not caring about Nash''s pleas and waving at his bodyguards.


    "Stop!"


    Nash cried even as he tried to stop the bodyguards swarming and wrecking the Veyron, only to get beaten up as well. "Dad!"


    Kat went mad when she saw Nash coughing blood and kicked a bodyguard out of the way as she leapt toward Huub.


    However, with him being the heir to Droitner Inc, Huub''s goons were martial elites.


    As one of them suddenly appeared in front of Huub, he kicked Kat squarely in the stomach.


    She was a vigor wielder, but she was really nothing against an Ascendant rank-the kick left her coughing blood and sent mming into the wall, unconscious.


    "Frank, please answer the phone..."


    Seeing what had happened to Kat, Winter promptly dialed Frank''s number.


    However, the response was always that the recipient was not within the coverage area whenever she tried, leaving her in despair.


    "Hyah!"


    Mona leapt toward Huub as well, but she onlysted a couple of strikes before getting punched in the belly, coughing blood and dropping to the floor. "W-Why did thingse to this..."


    Carol was holding her daughter and cowering in a corner, watching as Huub''s man started to set fire to everything.


    They, along with the unconscious Kat and Mona, were all eventually taken hostage too.


    And through it all, the security officers of Lanecorp''s health and safety department never showed up.


    Meanwhile, Helen called Huub after losing contact with Frank. "Did you find the Bloodcrane Spiritbloom?" "Nope..."


    Huub was riding shotgun, watchingCòntens bel0ngs to N?(v)elDr/a/ma.Org


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    distance nonchntly. "But I got myself a few hostages. Don''t worry as long as they''re around, Frank Lawrence will hand over the Bloodcrane Spiritbloom."


    "What?!"


    Helen was left stunned. "I told you not to hurt Winter and the others or to bother them—"


    "I have no choice!"


    Huub retorted as if wounded. "They


    were all snapping at me before I


    could say a word, and since we''re facing a crisis, I did what I had to do.


    You won''t me me, right?


    "Huub Droitner!"


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    Helen''s voice was shaking, as she did not expect him to do something like this, and she became his aplice on top of that!


    She could even imagine the look on Frank''s face when he found out.


    Even as she heaved, she snapped, "I''m ordering you to release them right now!"


    "Oh, but that won''t do."


    Huub chuckled. "Frank stole my Bloodcrane Spiritbloom, Helen. Surely I have to make him submit and return it, no? Don''t worry, I won''t do anything to my hostages-it''s just fair I take back what''s mine, no? And astong as he does, I promise he will have them back unscathed."