Chapter 144 The Wrath of Felix
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The women who had helped Casey torment Lauren were finally starting to realize just how badly they’d messed up. They all. put on their most flattering smiles.
“Mr. Brooker, we were just joking around”
“That’s right, it was all just a misunderstanding…
Felix didn’t even glance at them. His eyes locked onto the battered body lying on the floor.
Lauren’s dress was tom to shreds, her exposed skin covered in bruises. Her face was swollen beyond recognition.
Her hair was a tangled mess on the floor, streaked with blood and tears. She looked like she’d been through hell
But even in this state, Felix recognized her instantly.
His pupils shrank. His breath caught. Shock turned to seething rage in a heartbeat. His glare could’ve set the room on
“He tore off his custom–tailored jacket and gently draped it over Lauren’s ravaged body. His movements were
re urgent careful, like he was afraid she’d fall apart if he touched her too roughly.
fire…
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Then he lifted her into his arms, cradling her against his chest like something precious.
“Mr. Brooker!” someone gasped, stumbling back a step.
They couldn’t believe what they were seeing.
Felix Brooker–Mr. Clean Freak, Mr. Untouchable–was now holding a woman soaked in blood and filth in his arms, wrapped in his own jacket.
Under the soft glow of the pearl chandeliers, the hard lines of his jaw glinted cold and sharp. Blood from Lauren’s wounds. was already staining his expensive slacks.
Gasps echoed around the room.
Lauren’s body twitched in his arms.
Her bloody lashes fluttered open. Her blurry eyes found his face. She gave him a weak, broken smile.
“Mr. Brooker you came to save
* me!”
That smile–those words–stabbed straight through his chest.
Felix’s arms stiffened. His Adam’s apple bobbed once, twice. Then he pulled her even closer, holding her as tightly as he
could.
Yeah,” he said softly, as if afraid to scare her.
Through the soaked fabric of her dress, he could feel how sharp her bones were. She was so small. So cold.
His eyes swept across the crowd like a blade, freezing on Casey’s face.
Casey’s mind went blank. Her legs gave out. She nearly collapsed.
You she Her lips trembled. No words came out.
“Lock it down, Felix said, his voice like a knife through ice. “Nobody leaves this room until I return
“And everyone involved–better pray their body parts are worth enough to pay for what she’s been through.”
Josh pulled out his radio immediately.
Casey shrieked and lunged forward.
Chapter 144 The Wrath of Felix
“Mr. Brooker, listen! That little slut seduced your father! That’s why 1-
“Seduced?” Felix suddenly let out a low chuckle. “Sounds like Madam Casey needs a refresher lesson.”
He stepped toward her.
She stumbled backward, slamming into the buffet table.
“How to tell the truth from lies,” he said coldly. “Just like I taught you the difference between a miscarriage and a hysterectomy.”
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Sweat glued her styled curls to her forchrad. Her hands scraped the tablecloth, leaving long, claw–like tears in the fabric.
Felix turned away, carrying Lauren toward the side exit.
A trail of blood drops dotted the black marble floor behind him.
He paused and glanced at Mailam Kate, who sat on the dais, her face stone colil.
Grandmother,” he said quietly, “may I borrow your cloak?”
Madam Kate looked at the woman she’d long accepted as her granddaughter–in–law–now beaten and humiliated–and her heart broke.
Without a word, she pulled off her embroidered clock and funded it to Felix.
“With me here, anyone who laid a finger on Laurie isn’t walking out of here clean”
Felix nodded once, took the deep red clook, and wrappeil Lauren in it, covering her from head to toe.
Only her ankle peeked out, pale as snow against the blood–red silk.
The room was silent.
Felix walked straight out of the hall with Lauren in his arms.
The heavy doors swung closed behind him.
The last thing anyone saw was Casey’s twisted, ashen fare–frozcil in shock and horror
Her ears rang. Her skin went clammy
She finally understood.
She had gotten it all wrong And this mistake…. might cost her everything
She turned to Kyle, eyes wide with desperation, voice shaking
“Kyle that woman is your mistress, isn’t she?
