Chapter 224
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'Boss, you guessed right, something happened to Archie, yesterday he drove to the suburbs, got out of the car for about ten minutes, and by the time Miss. When Bertha arrived, he calmly returned."
Derek frowned. 'Do you know where he went?"
Liam shook his head. 'This kid is like a thief, our subordinates can't catch up with him."
Derek smirked, he fell into thought for a moment. 'Okay, everything here, I leave it to you, I have to return to the beach villa."
Arriving at the mansion, Derek didn't go upstairs, he went to the backyard.
Bertha didn't bring Archie to the company today, she let him stay at the villa. When Derek returned, Archie had just left the underground guard station to go to the bathroom. At this time, he was washing his hands in the bathroom.
Seeing Derek, he smiled and said. "Mr. Derek, what a coincidence."
Derek's expression was cold. 'No coincidence, I came to find you."
Archie faced Derek, his expression gradually becoming serious.
The two of them went to a secluded corner at the back door of the villa.
Archie said. 'What are you trying to talk about with such a cautious expression?"
"You don't have to pretend in front of me, I know you're with Bertha for a purpose."
In an instant, Archie's expression became extremely cruel.
"If you already knew…"
He slowly raised his hand towards his back and pulled out a small knife, quickly stabbing Derek's throat.
Derek quickly took two steps back.
In just three seconds, he was able to overpower Archie.
Archie's hands were pinned down by him, and Derek's force was so strong that Archie felt like his bones were about to break, making his face turn white with pain.
"You kill me, anyway, I can't complete the task the other side assigned me, sooner or later I will have to die."
Derek laughed softly, letting go of him. "Why should I kill you? I'm just looking for you to talk, I'm not interested in you at all."
Archie doesn't understand.
"You love Bertha very much, right? I'm the one sent by the other side to harm her. You exposed my identity, why don't you take action?"
Derek stared at him with dark eyes. "You like her, right?"
Archie blushed momentarily. His face turned red.
"No… how could I…"
Derek sees right through Archie.
From the moment he realized he was in love with Bertha, he discovered he had a new ability: he could tell whether other men had feelings for Bertha or not by the way their eyes looked at her.
"It's because you like her, otherwise you wouldn't have hidden your identity for so long and still haven't made a move on her. You don't need to hide, you tell me the other party's plan, maybe I can help you find a solution."
Archie looked at him, suddenly attracted to Derek's aura.
He knows that Derek's fate is not simple, and now it seems that except for telling Derek the plan to negotiate and find a way to resolve the problem, he has no other way to go.
Archie can only choose to trust Derek once.
"On the evening of the next three days, they want me to lure Miss Bertha alone to an abandoned warehouse in the eastern suburbs. This time they arranged many ambushes. The man in black you're investigating will also appear. If you go there, you'll have bad luck."
He exhaled and continued speaking. "Miss. Bertha is the only person who treats me well, I don't have the heart to harm her, but if she doesn't die, I will die. That side is watching me very closely, I can't run away. Do you have any solution?"
Derek pondered for a moment, his eyes quiet and calm.
He frowned. "You tell that side that you have arranged everything. As for Bertha, I will help you keep this a secret. You don't have to tell her."
"Huh?"
Archie was stunned. "So the next three days..."
Derek's face fell. "I will go."
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In the afternoon, Derek didn't go out.
The huge villa has been cleaned by the maids.
Derek guessed that it was almost time for Bertha to come home, so he went to the kitchen to start preparing dinner.
These are his last days with her, he wants to be able to cook delicious food for her every day.
Wait until he leaves, even if she doesn't remember him, her stomach will probably remember him, right?
He thought so, and the corners of his lips automatically smiled.
His phone message suddenly rang.
He glanced, it was a text message sent by Liam, and the content of the message only had an exclamation mark.
Derek's smile suddenly stopped, and his face suddenly became serious.
This is an implicit symbol, meaning something is very urgent.
He glanced at his watch. It was forty minutes before Bertha got off work. He quietly drove to the suburbs, where Bruno was arrested.
Liam was standing on the main street, pacing back and forth, attentively waiting for his boss.
As soon as he saw Derek's car coming, Liam quickly ran closer, sat in the passenger seat next to him, and spoke into Derek's ear at a very low volume. "Boss, some people from S city... have arrived."
Derek frowned tightly.
Why did they come at this time?
His expression darkened, and he started the car engine again, heading in the direction of the location Liam said.
Going around the abandoned construction site, he and Liam silently entered an old, remote house.
Derek had just entered that house when Bertha received a phone call from Tommy.
Tommy reported Derek's strange actions to Bertha without missing a word.
Bertha was skeptical. "What did he go there for? Did you see clearly who else was inside? What did they say?"
"No, I found that within fifty meters of that construction site, there were assassins secretly ambushing them. More than half, the number was so large, I couldn't get close."
Bertha pondered for a moment.
Who did Derek suddenly run to the abandoned construction site to see?
In addition, people are guarding him, his secrets are indeed many.
"Okay, I know. I'll go over there later and see."
