After knowing Who She Is They Kneeled novel Chapter 98

Chapter 98

It couldn’t have been someone who knew her from before; her current identity was perfectly safe, after all.

But whoever it was, finding their way to the narrow alleyway was crossing a line with her.

After all, an elderly person lived there.

The thug trembled, scared to death: “I… I don’t know, heroine, miss. We just take odd jobs. Someone up top pays us, and we do it. We really don’t know who sent us.”

He was speaking incoherently.

But Annelise heard something fishy in his words: “You’re taking black market jobs?”

“Well…” The thug looked at his boss on the ground.

Seeing this, Annelise lifted her leg and stomped her black boot on the man’s hand.

The man instantly curled up in pain, frantically slapping the ground: “Yes, we are… we’re taking black market jobs!”

Only then did Annelise move her foot, looking at the man whose face had turned pale with fear: “Looks like you’re the leader. So, tell me, what was the job?”

“To… to make you leave Criford, by any means necessary.”

The man held up his aching hand, not daring to try anything else: “Miss, why don’t you… why don’t you think hard about what enemies you might have.”

Annelise casually let go of him: “Too many to remember.”

The thugs: …

But Adrian, standing off to the side, smiled. He was in a crisp suit, practically spotless, his eyes on Annelise, deep

and handsome.

Annelise suspected he was using a Honeypot scheme on her and raised an eyebrow: “Being good-looking gives you the right to laugh at others, I see.”

Adrian walked closer to her, smoothed back the long hair that had gotten messy during the fight, and said in a hoarse voice: “Do you need me to have someone look into it for you?”

“No need.”

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Hearing his voice, Annelise didn’t pay much mind to his actions: “You didn’t take your herbal lozenge?”

Adrian smiled. “I did. I just have a last-minute meeting to attend. I wanted to wait for you to get back, tell you, and

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then leave.”

Annelise grunted in acknowledgment, pulling his wrist over to check his pulse, but jerked her chin toward the thugs: “You guys, keep talking.”

The thugs felt like they were being force-fed PDA: “Say… say what?”

“How did you get the job? Offline or online?”

Annelise smiled, her beauty mark under the eye looking bewitching: “The rules of the spiritual path, do I have to teach you?”

The thugs were startled, feeling that this young woman seemed more like a robber than they did!

“Online. We were originally in the small-loan business, but as you know, heroine, that debt collection work… you have to have no conscience. We just couldn’t do it.”

The man spoke with conviction.

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Annelise raised an eyebrow: “But following a defenseless young woman at night, you don’t care about your con- science then?”

The thugs muttered, “Someone like you… really can’t be called defenseless.”

Annelise pretended not to hear.

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