Masked In Nobility: Secrets Of Mrs. Chavez

Chapter 420

Holden was heading toward his study when Gideon rushed over looking flustered. "Mr. Jacobs, something's happened."

Holden stopped in his tracks, his face darkening as he shouted. "What's all this noise? I told you to take the person to the secret room. Why are you here?"

Gideon, visibly shaken, replied, "Mr. Jacobs, someone tampered with the bookshelf in the study. Someone might have discovered our secret."

Hearing this, Holden's expression changed dramatically. He snarled. "What did you say?"

Gideon, nervous, continued, "Mr. Jacobs, someone entered the study. I've already stationed guards at the door. As soon as they come out, our people will capture them. There's no escape. Holden's expression eased slightly at this. First, Sheldon was attacked yesterday, losing his cock, and now, someone had broken into Holden's study.

There hadn't been any outsiders in Dungo Village lately, so it was clear that the Jacobs family was targeted.

Where did things go wrong?' Holden couldn't figure it out, but this wasn't the time for reflection. 'I'm going to find out exactly who dared to break into my secret room.

'Whoever it is, they won't leave Dungo Village alive. If my secrets get out, everything will be over.

By the time Holden and Gideon reached the study entrance, all of the Jacobs family guards had assembled, each armed with various cold weapons. Holden's face was grim.

Entering the study, Holden approached the bookshelf, where he immediately saw that the switch book had been moved. Rage surged within him.

Holden turned to Gideon and asked, "Has there been any outsider in Dungo Village recently?"

Gideon immediately thought of Yvette but quickly dismissed the idea.

'She's just a young lady. There's no way she could break into Mr. Jacobs's secret room. Any woman who saw what was inside would be scared badly. It can't be the girl Sheldon brought back stirring up trouble.

Gideon shook his head. "Mr. Jacobs, there haven't been any strangers in Dungo Village recently, except for the woman Sheldon brought back. But she's very quiet, rarely leaves her quarters, and mostly stays in her little courtyard." Holden couldn't believe that someone capable of finding the secret room and harming Sheldon could be a mere woman.

He waved Gideon over, gritting his teeth. "Prepare the torches. As soon as the intruders emerge, I want everyone who's dared to enter the secret room burned to ashes."

Gideon nodded. "Don't worry, Mr. Jacobs. I'll handle it right away. There's no way they'll escape. Rest assured." With that, Gideon turned and skillfully led a group of guards from the courtyard.

In the yard, under the sparse moonlight, the entire Jacobs residence soon lit up brightly. Holden's loyal guards waited on standby outside the study's courtyard.

Holden stood in the center of the yard, silent, his gaze fixed intently on the study door, lost in thought.

In the secret room, Winnie, now healed by the poisonous insect, trembled as she followed Yvette, Jeremiah, and Charles.

At the entrance of the secret room, Yvette looked inside, her brows knitting at the sight of the barely alive people crammed into large jars. A fierce, icy aura radiated from her, and her gaze was chilling.

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Seeing her reaction, Charles stepped forward. "Yvette, these people are living in misery beyond belief. Let's put an end to it for them."

Winnie looked at the people in the jars and thought of herself, a look of sorrow and anger crossing her face. She muttered bitterly, "Miss, they would rather die than live like this.

"Mr. Jameson is right. At this point, death is a mercy for them."

Yvette turned, nodding in agreement. "Okay." Jeremiah stood beside her, reaching out to hold her right hand, his face calm.

Upon hearing this, Charles immediately took out a time-activated bomb he had prepared. Just one of these new bombs was enough to level the entire secret room.

The noise would surely alert Holden, the leader of Dungo Village. But that was perfect. After all the innocent lives he'd taken, Holden's end couldn't come soon enough.

Charles carefully placed the bomb, then closed the door to the secret room and returned to Yvette and Jeremiah.

With a serious expression, he said, "Yvette, Jeremiah, in half an hour, the bomb will go off right on time."

Yvette stood with her hands in her pockets, expressionless, and nodded slightly. In a low voice, she said, "Let's go."

They'd arrived as a group of three, and they left as a group

of four.

Passing through the same tunnel they'd used to enter, Charles was just about to push open the door when Yvette and Jeremiah spoke in unison, stopping him. "Hold it. Someone's there." Their perfect synchronicity was enough to make Charles uneasy. Winnie, rescued yet shivering, huddled close, glancing nervously between Yvette and Jeremiah as they exchanged a look and paused.

Yvette's lips curved slightly, her voice indifferent. "Feel like a fight?"

Jeremiah nodded. "Want to make it a contest?"

Yvette tilted her head, a loose strand of her long, gleaming hair falling to one side. She replied, "Sure."

Raising her brows with a casual air, she added, "The Jacobs family guards are all outside."

Jeremiah chuckled lightly. "Plenty of them, too."

Watching them calmly betting on the situation, Charles felt his eye twitch. 'Betting here, of all places? Only Yvette and Mr. Chavez would do something like this,' he wondered. Being around the big shot, anything could happen, and everything was possible. Judging by what these two were saying, it seemed like the people outside had already found them.

"Those poor souls outside have no idea what they're in for. If Yvette's getting involved personally... Just the thought of it made Charles's skin crawl. Holden's fate would be worse than death. Winnie, following along with the three, stood frozen at Yvette and Jeremiah's words.

Meanwhile, Holden had been waiting in the courtyard for over half an hour, his patience wearing thin. Anxiety gnawed at him, especially about the poisonous insects in the hidden room. He'd secured an offer of 7 million from South East Aploth for that batch of insects. If anything went wrong, it would all go up in smoke.

Finally, the bookshelf door opened once again. Holden watched the people stepping out of the study with a gaze as sharp

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Beside him, Gideon's eyes narrowed as he caught sight of Yvette and he pointed a trembling finger at her, unable to believe what he was seeing. "Mr. Jacobs, she's the woman Sheldon brought back a couple of days ago!" At this, Holden turned, glaring at Yvette with a fury that bordered on bloodlust. "Who the hell are you?"

Yvette spared him a glance, her gaze as icy as it was empty. The suffocating aura she exuded made Holden instinctively take a step back.

Realizing this, he immediately grew enraged and shouted. "Who are you people, and why have you broken into the Jacobs residence? Leave that woman behind. She's a maid of the Jacobs family!"

At the sight of Holden, Winnie reflexively cowered behind Charles, trembling uncontrollably. Jeremiah stepped forward, his eyes flashing with cold menace.

As Holden got a closer look at Jeremiah, he froze. The darkness made it hard to recognize him at first. And now, seeing him clearly, Holden was stunned.

'It's that general?' Holden thought, suddenly panicked as he recalled the officer who'd once pursued fugitives through Dungo Village, staying overnight there.

'If the authorities find out what I've done, everything will be ruined. No! I can't let that happen. Today's matter can't get out,' he wondered.

Gritting his teeth, Holden growled. "Since you know what's in the study, you're leaving your lives behind."

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