Tim gasped for air painfully, but he didn't fight back. Instead, he allowed Leonardo to hit him.
Carl rushed over, grabbed Leonardo's arm and said, "Calm down!"
Having lost his mind at this time, Leonardo didn't stop. He turned to beat Carl as well.
Although Carl was good at fighting as his family used to deal with gangsters, he wasn't Leonardo's
rival.
In the end, both were too exhausted to move, with bruises all over their bodies. They lay down in
ashes.
Tim did not stop them. He and his men turned to search the villa.
As expected, Summer was nowhere to be found.
The fire destroyed the villa.
He walked to Leonardo and said in a hoarse voice, "I didn't find her."
Tim thought he would be beaten again.
But Leonardo didn't hit him as expected.
Hearing his words, Leonard didn't move at all. He just stared at the charred ceiling blankly, as if he
didn’t hear the words at all.
Tim turned to look at Carl who was wiping his lips.
He propped himself up and spat out blood onto the pile of ashes beside him. "Leave him alone. He's
crazy. Damn it, I can't even get up. Help me."
Tim walked over to support Carl.
Carl stood up, trembling.
Leonardo used all his strength. If Carl hadn't been trained, he wouldn't have stood a chance and would
have been sent to the emergency room.
Carl gasped in pain because of his injury. He whispered to Tim, "Give him some time. Don't worry
about him."
Tim nodded with great concerned.
Carl walked out with the help Tim and saw a reporter doing a live interview with his back to the villa.
Carl hurriedly took a detour and got into the car from the other side.
But Tim wasn't so fortunate.
The reporter saw him and went straight to him.
"Excuse me, are you Mr. Emerson's subordinate? Is Mrs. Emerson inside? Did she commit suicide for
fear of punishment?"
"I just saw Mr. Emerson enter. What is he doing? When will he come out?"
"I heard that Mrs. Emerson received a subpoena and then committed suicide. Does it mean that she is
the one who pushed Mr. Charlie down the stairs?"
The sharp questions were all about Summer.
Tim said coldly, "No comment."
Afterwards, the bodyguards came over and drove the reporter away.
In a village in the northern part of Hoover City.
Summer was eating a bowl of steaming egg noodles at a dingy noodle restaurant, while watching the
news on TV.
"At noon, a villa halfway up the mountain caught fire. A source said the villa belongs to Leonardo, the
successor of the Emerson Group."
Then there was a live report from a reporter in front of the villa.
Summer saw that the once beautiful villa had been burned down into ruins.
Tim showed up on TV.
Still wearing his suit and leather shoes, he was in a mess.
Summer guessed Tim must have looked for her in the burning building, which was why he was in such
a sorry state.
Over the series of sharp questions, Tim said indifferently, "No comment."
Leonardo's subordinates were all capable. Tim was not just his assistant and helper. He was much
better than that.
The owner of the noodle restaurant was a middle-aged man.
Seeing Summer watch TV, he sat to her side and said, "Rich families always have many nasty things. I
heard the young woman is only in her early twenties. My daughter is at her age. She's gone to
university. What a pity to die at such a young age!"
Hearing this, Summer stretched out to tug her cap down. She picked up the chopsticks and began to
eat noodles.
"They said she committed suicide to escape punishment," she said carelessly.
The man answered, "She didn't do anything so evil to deserve death. Is it because of Mr. Charlie? I
heard he is still alive. She would only be put behind bars for a couple of years."
Summer ate some noodles and said while stirring them up, "That's not necessarily the case. What if
locking her up for a few years won't dissipate the anger of the Emersons? They have huge influence
and the woman's fate is dependent on their decision."
"They won't go that far. She's Mr. Emerson's wife."
Summer only smiled politely and stopped chatting.
When she finished eating, she took out a box from her bag.
The box with a pen in it. Leonardo treasured it so much and locked it in his safe.
He seldom liked something so much. When she went upstairs to pour gasoline, she hesitated for a
while and decided to take it out.
The password was easy to guess, as it was his birthday. She tried once and opened it.
Summer paid for the noodles with a light smile. "Here you are."
The owner took the money and said, "Wait a second. I'll get the change for you."
Next to the noodle restaurant was a shop for courier service.
Summer walked over with the box in her hands and said, "I want to have the box delivered."
The small shop was crowded with parcels. The owner didn't even look up. He asked, "Destination?"
Summer said, "Tip Top Media Company, Hoover City."
"Ten yuan." Glancing at the box, he handed her an waybill.
Summer packed the box, wrote Carl in the recipient's column, and added the letters "XN".
The letters were small and obscure.
She set fire to the villa not to fake her death, but to escape from it.
Leonardo was smart, so he wouldn't believe she was dead.
She had nothing to hide.
However, she would have to make some efforts to avoid Leonardo.
He would definitely send his men to look for her.
Mr. Charlie's case would be temporarily shelved because she was nowhere to be found after the huge
fire.
Everything was proceeding in an orderly manner as she planned.
But Summer touched her belly.
The baby disrupted her plans.
She was at the early stage of pregnancy. She wore thick clothes to keep warm in winter. Others
couldn't tell she was pregnant.
But things would change in a few months. At that time, it would be very inconvenient for her to move
about.
She had to leave Hoover City so that Leonardo could not find her.
She was not very sure if she could escape his search. But since she had already taken the first step,
there was no coming back.
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