The Broken-hearted She And The Icy He (Lily and John) novel Chapter 410

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Chapter 410 Unmasked

Mathilda couldn’t believe it.

Taylor–her most protective, most trusting brother–was actually questioning whether she had conspired with traffickers to sell Lily.

She was his own sister. How could he even think that?

Had Lily really brainwashed him that badly?

“Mathilda,” Bodger said, his eyes red–rimmed with fury, “tell us the truth. Were you involved or not?”

Mergan didn’t speak, but the way his eyes drilled into her, dark and sharp, left no doubt–he was beyond disappointed. And clearly, he was starting to believe Lily had been telling the truth all along.

“I wasn’t!”

Mathilda’s voice trembled with a mix of panic and humiliation as fat tears rolled down her cheeks.

“I love you all! I know how much you care about Lily–why would I ever hurt her? I was trafficked too! I hate those monsters more than anyone! How could I possibly work with them? I swear, I would never…”

“Ashton,” James said, voice flat and cold, “bring them in.”

Mathilda was still crying, still trying to tug at her brothers‘ heartstrings, when James’s command dropped like a hammer.

Seconds later, Ashton and his men dragged in two couples–four people–roughly shoved through the door.

When Mathilda saw their faces, her own blood ran cold.

These were the exact people she’d worked with. They ran stores as a front, stayed low–profile, never flashy. Every time they trafficked thirty women or children, they’d shut down shop and vanish to a new location.

They’d done this for years, without raising a single red flag.

She had never imagined James could actually find them.

Now she was panicking, badly. She slapped a hand over her mouth just to keep from screaming.

Outside the room, Randy–Mathilda’s loyal simp and former scholarship recipient–had been waiting. The moment he saw the traffickers being dragged in, he rushed inside, worried she might get hurt.

The traffickers, for their part, recognized James immediately.

That face–noble, elegant, cold as ice. A face you didn’t mess with.

But they reminded themselves how carefully they’d pulled off Lily’s abduction. Even if she remembered their faces, she had no proof, Her word alone couldn’t touch them.

They weren’t about to admit to anything.

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“Mr. James,” one of the men said smoothly, “we’re just humble shopkeepers. We’ve never crossed you- why are we being dragged here like criminals?”

“Exactly,” another chimed in. “We’re law–abiding folks! I’ve lived forty–three years without doing a single wrong thing!”

“You’re the ones!”

Lily’s voice was shaking with rage as she pointed straight at them.

Her palm still stung from hitting Mathilda earlier, but she didn’t care. She grabbed a steel training bar from James and brought it down hard–right on one of the trafficker’s backs.

“Ahhh!”

The man screamed in pain, barely holding himself back from lunging at her.

But James’s eyes locked on him, cold as death, and the Lu family bodyguards stood at the ready. He knew if he moved even an inch, he’d be torn to pieces.

Lily lifted the bar again.

“Besides me, Jenn, and Sharon, how many more have you trafficked?”

She slammed it down again. “Answer me!”

“I… I have no idea what you’re talking about…” the man gasped, gritting his teeth. He forced himself to look harmless, like a confused victim.

“Still playing dumb.”

James shot Ashton a look.

“You might need to rough them up a little before they remember how to speak human.”

Ashton didn’t hesitate.

He and a few of the guards stepped forward and went to work–vicious, brutal kicks that had all four traffickers writhing on the floor.

Normally, Ashton wasn’t one to hit women.

But to him, traffickers weren’t men or women. They were beasts.

So when he beat the two women just as hard, he didn’t feel a shred of guilt.

The traffickers cried out in pain, flailing, still refusing to break.

“Stop! Stop! You can’t do this!”

“You might be rich, but you can’t just beat innocent people for fun!”

“We’re good citizens! You can’t just assault us like this!”

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“Dave,” James said coldly, eyes locking onto the one screaming loudest, “there were hidden cameras in the hotel where Lily was staying.”

“The owner had them installed to record emergencies. They run on batteries. So cutting the power didn’t do a thing.”

“What?”

The moment he heard those words, Dave froze in place.

He realized instantly–they were done. Completely and utterly finished.

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