The Sweet Rival (Mango Shen and Nathaniel Ye) novel Chapter 1013

"Wow! How much did it actually cost you to raise such a group of mercenaries? Wait, let me rephrase this question. Are these all Bernard's men? You guys have indeed built a lot of forces for yourself all these years, thanks to Kolton. Huh?"

At that point, Mango wasn't terrified at all. In fact, she was rather calm.

Suddenly, Carmel firmly protected Mango behind her and whispered, "Madam, I'll protect you. You can't just ignore me and escape once you find the opportunity to do so."

"What? Don't be silly! Laney won't give me the chance to flee, and I won't let you die here for me either. You should know how skilled these people are more than me. Even if we both join hands, we might now even win over them. Besides, Ned hasn't come over yet, and both the Hans and Xiao families haven't made any moves as well. I bet that Laney did something to distract them so that they couldn't come over now!"

Mango had been looking at Laney all this while when she said this.

On the other hand, Laney's eyes lit up whenever

Mango made speculations.

Then, she smiled and said, "Mango, I truly admire you, and I'm quite fond of you as well..."

"Sadly, we can't be friends."

Mango finished her sentence for her almost immediately.

"That's right. However, I will make sure that your death is painless because you did treat my daughter sincerely. Since you're the daughter- inlaw of the Ye family, you should die in this mansion that. You can rest assured that after you die, I will make sure that people bury both the bodies of Nathaniel and you into the Ye family's ancestral grave. After all, I'm quite merciful now that things have escalated this way."

Laney said this sarcastically.

Meanwhile, Carmel quickly took on an offensive stance and protected Mango behind her back.

"Hah! If you want to harm Madam, you have to do that over my dead body!"

Laney's eyes became even colder when she heard Carmel's threat.

"What are you guys waiting for? Kill her!"

The mercenaries behind Laney immediately rushed towards Mango and Carmel on her command.

Although Mango knew that she had lost this round, she refused to go down without a fight. Besides, she couldn't allow Carmel to take on the attacks of all these people by herself!

She quickly joined the battle. Unfortunately, her actions only caused the wounds on her body to reopen.

After all, it was obvious that both of them would lose as they were going against ten experienced mercenaries. Carmel was already injured even though she had only been fighting for a short time. In fact, she was attacking even fiercer, and it was as if she couldn't feel any pain coming from her body at all.

On the other hand, Mango felt that her back was on fire when she felt her wound bleed and reopen again. However, Carmel was fighting with all her might, and Mango was determined not to let Carmel die here.

At that moment, she realised that she was still far from being a qualified superior. Sadly, she would not have another chance to try again.

Just when Mango and Carmel barely withstand it, the sound of a car engine suddenly sounded outside.

Laney frowned slightly when she heard this.

Before anyone could react, a bunch of people broke in with gas masks. They emitted smoke bombs immediately when they came in, causing everyone to choke and cough repeatedly. Thus, no one focused on the fight anymore.

Suddenly, Carmel promptly jumped to the front of Laney and caught the latter, who was about to flee.

"Take them down! Don't let any one of them go!"

Meanwhile, Mango felt that someone was pulling her out of the range of the smoke bomb. The voice beside her was somewhat familiar, and the corners of her lips raised slightly when she heard it.

"You're finally here, Henry! If you came a second later, I would have been stabbed to death!"

Mango punched him as she was feeling rather grateful to see him.

Henry shyly touched his chest and said with a smile, "Madam, how can I forget what you've asked me to do? To be honest, I was afraid that my heart disease would affect my training when Mr. Ye sent me to the training base. However, Walter taught me a unique method to take care of it, so I managed to survive through the training."

When Henry brought up Walter, Mango subconsciously asked, "Have you talked to Walter recently?"

"Yeah, he sent me a message saying that he was travelling around in Norway recently."

Again, Mango felt depressed instantly upon hearing Henry's remarks.

How dare Walter treat her this way?

He could send a message to Novalee's younger brother to inform the latter about his whereabouts, but he didn't bother dropping Mango a text. Urgh! How annoying!"

"Madam, wait outside, please. Let me deal with the situation here."

Henry was standing in front of Mango when he said this, and Mango was reminded of the time when they first met.

When she had met Henry the first time in Longford County, the only thing this shy boy wanted to do was to pursue a career in the medical field. However, he never expected him to become someone like this. After all, he was one of the captains that were working in Nathaniel's training base now!

In fact, Novalee would probably be glad to see her brother's achievements if she was still alive.

Mango let out a sigh before she recovered from her trance.

After the smoke cleared, Mango could see that Henry's men had subdued most of Laney's men.

Furthermore, they had also surrounded and trapped those mercenaries that had escaped outside.

Carmel frowned as she glanced at Henry, who looked had a frail appearance. In fact, she didn't want to admit that someone as weak as Henry had saved her. However, she had to acknowledge that Henry was talented at commanding other people around after she had seen how he had taken control of the situation easily without panicking.

"Madam, what's going on now?"

Mango only smiled and looked at Laney, who was struggling in Carmel's hands. She said in a low voice, "Hmm... Aunt Laney, would you like to take a guess and tell me what's going on?"

"Hah! Mango Shen, I've underestimated you, after all. I didn't even expect you to have a backup plan. Well, my people have never seen you contacting this person at all. Who is he?"