Chapter 1569

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They had all been eating together, and seeing everyone leave, Sergeant Wu felt awkward sitting there alone and moved to follow.

Claire glanced at his heavily slung arm. “Sergeant Wu, stay here and finish your food. We don’t need a crowd.”

“Besides, you’re heavily injured. Eat up and recover.”

Sergeant Wu tried to insist, but the others quickly convinced him to stand down.

“Let’s go. I need to see this for myself.”

Claire took the lead, and the nurse practically sprinted ahead.

“We need to hurry!”

The nurse led Claire straight into the ER.

The shepherd had originally been transferred to a standard ward, but the sudden hemorrhaging had forced an emergency relocation.

Claire followed the nurse directly into the trauma bay.

She immediately leaned over the bed to check the shepherd’s vitals, but the second

her fingers brushed his wrist, the shepherd locked his grip around her arm like a vice.

His eyes were dead and filled with lethal intent, entirely devoid of the panicked innocence he had projected on the highway.

“You really are a Daybreak operative!”

Claire had suspected the shepherd was a plant from the beginning.

Otherwise, the timing of the goat avalanche trapping them between two hit squads was far too coincidental.

But when the shepherd actually took two bullets, she had momentarily dismissed the theory.

While operating on him in the vehicle, she had discreetly analyzed his overall physiology.

He was in peak physical condition. There was absolutely no medical reason for him to be vomiting blood, regardless of how hard he hit the floorboards.

Furthermore, the calluses on his hands didn’t match the agricultural wear-and-tear she had seen on the uncles in The James Village!

Claire had mentally flagged him right then and there.

After admitting him to the hospital, she had quietly ordered Jace to keep the man under strict surveillance.

She had also shared her suspicions with Dane.

That was why a single glance from her was all it took for Dane to understand the play.

Dane, in turn, had undoubtedly filled Stephen in.

However, she hadn’t expected this fake shepherd to be brazen enough to launch an assault right inside the ER.

But she was ready for it.

Claire violently twisted her arm to

break

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Because Claire brutally kicked his shattered leg, the blinding pain caused his grip to falter, preventing

aim from instantly sube

But in that split second, the panicked nurse’s expression went dead, and she lunged

to assist the shepherd.

With the nurse joining the fray, Claire’s escape route was cut off, and she was quickly pinned down.

They had secured the target, but how were they going to extract her?

The nurse ordered the shepherd to tie Claire to the underside of a spare gurney.

With her mouth taped shut, screaming for help was impossible, so Claire simply closed her eyes and went completely limp.

Seeing her surrender so quickly, the shepherd sneered.

He had been told Solenia operatives were fanatically resistant.

Yet the second she was cornered, she just gave up?

Quinton had explicitly warned him that Claire was a high-value, highly dangerous target.

He had demanded absolute caution even after she was secured.

But looking at her now, the shepherd saw nothing special at all.

Her surgical skills, however, were undeniably terrifying.

She had treated his gunshot wounds with flawless precision.

And that coagulant powder of hers was lightyears ahead of anything their syndicate possessed.

Once they had her in a secure location, he was going to torture the formula out of

her.

Now he fully understood why someone in Sundara was paying an astronomical fortune to abduct this girl.

Claire was a generational medical genius.

If they dragged her back to Sundara

and forced her to develop

revolutionary drugs, Sundarael.ne

global influence would skyrocket.

The rest of the world would be begging them for scraps!

The shepherd was already reveling in the glorious future ahead.

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