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Chapter 73
In every plan Joseph had laid, Naomi Martin was the keystone.From Kyle Lee’s account, Joseph already knew her background. And when he’d first rescued her, she’d been hanging from a tree for so long that any ordinary person—let alone a woman stranded alone on a deserted island for days—would have perished. That was when Joseph decided Naomi Martin was anything but ordinary.She was no mere ornament behind fine glass.Why else would the Martin family place such hopes on her?Numbers were a gap no one could bridge.No matter how formidable Bruce Lee might be, he was still just one man.If Joseph didn’t leave, Charles wouldn’t make a move.That was why Joseph had put Naomi Martin and Alice in the same room.He was gambling—gambling that Naomi would act.And he’d won.“Little Joseph, I didn’t expect you’d calculated even me into your plans.”Naomi had pieced it all together. She smiled and shook her head. “I think I like you even more.”“Clever.”With that smile, all her earlier fury and
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Everything Naomi Martin had sacrificed was for her family.She had never truly had a choice.In pedigree or in background, she was second to no one—yet choice had always eluded her.So Naomi Martin simply clenched her teeth and endured.Had it been Alice in her place, she would have shattered long ago.Alice couldn’t even name what she felt; she certainly couldn’t claim to share Naomi’s pain.She stood behind Naomi Martin.In that instant, Naomi’s back seemed to broaden, her figure towering.Alice’s hostility toward her—every last scrap of it—dissolved like mist.Sold out by her own mother for money; married to a man who had once been a complete failure.Alice had always thought her life tragic enough, but Naomi Martin made her reconsider.At least Alice now had Joseph—a man who was changing, little by little.A man who was, slowly, becoming worthy.Naomi Martin was a pitiable soul,a woman everyone envied—and pitied all the same.“Give me a chance?”Charles had already dragged himse
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“While you’re still untouched, you might as well accept your place as my woman.”Charles stopped outside Alice’s door.“Don’t worry. I’ll be very gentle with you.”The greed and lust on his face were no longer concealed.There was no reason to hide them now.So what if Naomi Martin was here?Whatever bond had once existed between them was irreparably broken, and their engagement was effectively over. Naomi had renounced him before everyone. To Charles, the humiliation was one he would carry for the rest of his life.Was he supposed to hope that Naomi might reconsider now and agree to marry him after all?That would be nothing more than pity.A favor bestowed upon him by Naomi Martin.Charles needed no such charity.Alice was the only woman he wanted now.Naomi had better know her place and stay out of his way.He might not dare confront her openly, but if she pushed him too far, he could simply force himself on her. Once he had taken her, would she not regret humiliating him? And afte
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The moon hung high in the night sky.Beneath its pale light, the sounds of violence rang through the camp.“Joseph was right! You worthless bastards really did wait until our guard was down to attack!”Kyle Lee cursed and spat on the ground.“Thank God Joseph prepared for this. Otherwise, you might actually have caught us defenseless!”“You never learn!”Kyle raised an arm and shouted, “Stop holding back! If anything happens, the Lee family will protect every last one of you when we return to Cloudsea City!”Those words swept away the last of the defenders’ hesitation.They had all seen that Kyle was a man of his word.And no one doubted that the Lee family had the power to uphold his promise.Many of the people Charles had brought were reluctant to fight and moved with obvious restraint. Joseph’s defenders, however, were badly outnumbered. If they did not fight with everything they had, they would lose everything. They could afford no mercy.For a time, even when facing two opponents
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The answer was beyond question.“You can go.”Joseph let out a weary sigh.These people were only following Charles’s orders. Joseph was capable of killing them, but he had no desire to slaughter them in cold blood.They had survived a shipwreck by sheer luck and endured untold hardships together on this island. That alone had been difficult enough.More importantly, they had not harmed Alice. Joseph could not bring himself to kill them. If he did, what would make him any different from Charles?“You’re really letting us leave?”Archie Turner stared at Joseph in disbelief, hardly trusting his own ears.Joseph was simply going to let them walk away?“What else would you have me do?”Joseph glanced over his shoulder, an inscrutable smile playing at the corner of his mouth. “You didn’t manage to take anything from me. Why should I waste my time making things difficult for you?”“Charles is the one you should be worried about.” Joseph gave a cold laugh. “If I’m right, he and his men have
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“What?”A terrible premonition seized Archie Turner.Charles was most likely already in danger.When Joseph was involved, anything could happen.“Move! We have to rendezvous with Mr. Martin!”Archie’s sense of foreboding grew stronger by the second.He wheeled around and raced toward the cave entrance with the others close behind.But before they could reach it, a figure appeared at the mouth of the cave.Moonlight cast the intruder’s shadow deep into the cavern, stretching it across the ground until it touched each of their feet.Archie raised a hand, halting the men behind him. He locked eyes with the figure, every nerve drawn taut. At a moment like this, he could not afford the slightest lapse in vigilance.“You’ve come all this way. Why leave in such a hurry?”Joseph stretched lazily, a cold smile curling at the corner of his mouth.“You knew we were coming?”Archie narrowed his eyes and stared hard at him.“Who else do you think laid all those traps for you?”Joseph stepped into
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