His Ex Wife is A Billionaire (Evadne and Thaddeus)

Chapter 785
Without a moment's hesitation, Jareth declared with a voice rasping with raw
emotion,
“I won't choose, I want them both!”
“Ha! Jareth, you're aiming for the moon, aren't you?” Gary's boisterous laughter
echoed through the room as he turned to Lily, who was standing defiantly on the
dais. “Lily, you sure hit the jackpot sticking with your boss. Look at him, ready to
take you as his mistress!”
“You bastard! You maniac! Go to hell! Shut your damn mouth!” Lily's eyes blazed
with fury as she screamed at Gary, “Come at me if you want a fight! Leave her
out of this!”
“Watch your step!” Jackson struck the back of her head with the butt of his gun.
“Tsk tsk, what a spitfire, Gary clucked his tongue, while shaking his head.
The pain was overwhelming, but it did nothing to quench the fire in Lily's eyes.
She shouted to Jareth, “Boss! Don't worry about me, get Marilla out! You must
save her!”
“I want them both!” Jareth’s eyes darkened with a fierce determination as he
repeated his resolve.
“Jareth, you've had more than enough already. Don’t be greedy. There's no such
thing as having your cake and eating it too in this world.”
Gary's smile was mocking, and his eyes were glinting with the cruelty of a
starving wolf. “I can’t have two arms, so how can you have two women? That
would be so unfair to me, wouldn't it?”
“Just let them go, and I'll agree to anything you want.”
Jareth refused to back down. “Money, shares, the Fairhaven Group, it's all
yours!”
“You see, this could've been easy if you'd just cooperated sooner. Unfortunately,
it's too late now.”
Gary's smile vanished as he pressed a button on the remote.
Immediately, a hole opened in the bottom of the glass tank and water began to
gush in!
Marilla was kneeling inside, and within seconds, the rising water had covered her
shins!
Feeling his heart was pierced by a sword, Jareth roared and slammed against
the glass tank, even trying to hack at it with a knife, but it was all in vain.
“Don't bother, this tank was custom-made for her. Bulletproof glass,
impenetrable, and completely sealed,” Gary taunted, reveling in Jareth’s
desperation.
“Gary, I will kill you!” Jareth charged, reckless of the consequences.
Gary quickly grabbed his gun and fired three shots; the bullets exploded at
Jareth's feet!
“Sir! Don’t go over there!” Lily cried; her heart was pounding with fear.
Jareth gasped for air; as, his gaze returned to the tank, he felt his heart
hammered in his chest.
The water had now risen above Marilla’s thighs.
“This tank will be full in ten minutes. And a person can drown in three, especially
one who's unconscious and lacks the will to survive. Ms. Marilla will probably go
even faster.”
Gary pointed his gun at Jareth, while shaking with insane laughter. “Honestly, I
was hoping you'd choose Lily. I really want to see Marilla drown in this beautiful
tank I've prepared. That would be such a sight, wouldn't it? Hal
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As the water level rose to Marilla’s chest, time seemed to stand still for Jareth; he
pounded on the glass, calling out his beloved’s name.
He couldn't make the choice.
If dying could save these innocent women, he would gladly embrace death. But
to sacrifice one to save the other was a choice he couldn't bear to make.
Suddenly, a muffled explosion came from below and shook the building.
One of Gary's men burst in, “Sir! The cops have surrounded the building! They're
coming in!”
“What's to fear? We've got plenty of firepower, grenades even. They won't
breach us easily.”
Gary could still muster a smile, but his amusement was short-lived because
Jareth, fueled by grief and anger, picked up the gun Jackson had dropped and
started shooting!
One bullet hit Gary's thigh, another knocked the gun from his hand. Gary fell to
his knees in agony. As he reached for his weapon, Jareth was already upon him,
firing another round into his shoulder.
With the last bullet ready, Jareth aimed at Gary's forehead.
But unexpectedly, the tank started up again, leading the the water level to rise,
threatening to engulf the girl's neck!
“Stop it, make it stop!” Jareth’s voice was a ragged scream, teetering on the edge
of despair.
“Stop? It won't stop. I never planned to stop. I was just messing with you.”
Gary panted heavily, with a sinister and evil smirk on his face, “I never intended
to live, and my plan was to drag you down along with the one you love most to
the grave.
But your little maid didn’t die in vain. If it weren't for her buying some time, that
Abernathy girl would've been gone minutes ago.”
At that moment, the water in the glass tank had reached its peak.
Marilla floated in the water; her beautiful face was a sickly pale, and her hair was
swaying like seaweed; it was a heartbreakingly haunting sight.
Roaring, Jareth grabbed a gun and fired at the glass tank.
The magazine emptied, but the glass remained unscathed.
And then, Gary shakily got to his feet and pointed the gun at the back of his own
head.
“Go join your granddad and your dad, you little wolf pup!”
Bang!
A gunshot rang out.
The person who fell was Gary himself.
SWAT teams burst into the aquatic center; two laser rounds hit the bulletproof
glass tank, shattering it instantly, and water gushed out like a flood.
In the rescue, two officers lost their lives in the explosion.
It turned out that Gary, ostensibly a senior executive of the Fairhaven Group, had
been in cahoots with international criminal syndicates, and had been smuggling
arms for years; the fact that he held stockpiled heavy weaponry greatly
complicated the rescue.
The body—cam Jareth wore recorded this brutal battle.
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It was for this reason that Aaron had prepared more advanced weaponry to break
the tank and successfully rescue the hostage.
When Marilla was rushed to the ICU, her heartbeat was faint and she was
hanging by a thread.
Having nearly drowned and having been beaten, she suffered organ damage,
and her prognosis was grim,
Members of both the Ashbourne and Abernathy families who could make it were
there, crowding the hallway. outside the ICU.
Hamilton was overcome with grief, with tears streaming down his face; supported
by Frederic and Murray, he was on the verge of collapse.
Waiting with him were the two wives of the Ashbourne family, then Arnold, Nydia
and Jason; only Aviana was
absent for she was abroad.
Suri was inconsolable, as if her own daughter was on the brink of death.
Jareth was seriously injured; he should have been in the hospital to recover, but
he was not.
Instead, he went with Aaron to the police station, in order to cooperate with the
investigation and to identify the body. Not just for Marilla’s kidnapping, but also
for his grandfather's and Lily's death.
The entire Fairhaven Group was in turmoil.
If he fell, the Fairhaven Group would truly be done for.
Evadne and Thaddeus didn’t go to the hospital, but stayed in the police station's
lobby, without even drinking water, they've waited for a day and night.
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Evadne wasn't idle either, she called her older and younger brothers and Elvis,
instructing them to get prepared for dealing with the five scoundrels, including
Alston and their families.
“Evadne, dad knows about Marilla’s situation too!”
Cassius’ voice was laden with sorrow, “Dad said, if Mr. Fairhaven needs
anything, just say the word, and if the Fairhaven Group can't hold on, he will
definitely lend a hand.
Also, dad asked how his future daughter-in-law is doing. Has Marilla woken up?”
“Ha, at a time like this, Emeric is still joking.”
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Thanks, Chasel.”
“Evadne, don't be sad, everything will get better.”
After Thaddeus finished his work, he returned to Evadne’s side; enveloping the
little crier in his arms, he softly patted her and comforted her in a gentle voice:
“Did you talk to Cassius?”
“Yeah,” she responded weakly; her tears soaked his shirt.
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“It's all over, it's all past.” Thaddeus’ voice choked up a little, as he held back
from mentioning anything more sorrowful.
Then, heavy footsteps approached.
Evadne and Thaddeus both looked back, and their hearts skipped a beat.
The man before them had a look of desolation in his deep, shattered and
profound eyes; his hair was now gray at the temples, as if frosted with grief.
“Jareth.” Thaddeus felt a sharp pain in his chest, and his tears started welling up.
There's a saying about overnight graying of hair.
It turned out it's true.