One of them, a thin man named Neo, hesitated a little before speaking.
"Boss, if I may ask, what do we do now?
The prisoner is gone. Clearly, our trap for this man has failed. He took her right from under our noses, and we didn't even know how. Continuing to fight someone when we don't know what more he's capable of—it would be foolish."
Mei's face darkened further.
The man was far more dangerous than she had initially assumed.
Mei's hand tightened on the hilt of her dagger as she mentally replayed everything she knew about Alex Carter.
He had appeared in Ironhold City approximately nine months ago, seemingly out of nowhere.
He aligned himself with the Hartwell family within weeks.
Then he had somehow figured out where their mountain hideout was. The secret base that her father had kept hidden for a long time was found in just a few days after Alex started looking for it.
Then, after the raid by the government that followed, everything had been destroyed.
