Chapter 203: Chapter 206

After Sophia was rushed into the emergency room, the drenched man walked into the corridor and made a call using the payphone with his back toward the surveillance camera.

Gemma immediately looked into the payphone’s call log based on the time of the phone call. After that, she managed to confirm the phone number he had dialed and its location.

Shortly after making that phone call, somebody came to pick the man up. The man entered Sophia’s ward and stayed inside for a few minutes. After that, he left the hospital without ever coming back.

The man had his back toward the surveillance camera the whole time.

Sophia, who also stared round-eyed at the screen, recognized the man from behind. She couldn’t be mistaken about it—the man was none other than the person who had saved her life!

Why would Michael investigate this incident all of a sudden?

The room was momentarily silent except for the sound of Gemma tapping her fingers on the keyboard as she searched for more information.

Michael frowned as he asked Sophia again, “Do you still remember how the man looked like?”

Sophia shook her head. “It was too dark that day, and there were no lights on the island; I really couldn’t see his face. I heard from a nurse in the hospital afterward that the man was strikingly handsome.”

When she regained consciousness back then, the nurse who had looked after her said, “Huh? Was the guy from yesterday your boyfriend? He is both very handsome and very tall! Not only does he have long legs and look handsome, he also has a pair of attractive eyes!”

However, she was too embarrassed to repeat what the nurse had said back then.

Michael asked after that, “Did he say something weird to you? Has he ever looked for you over these years?”

Sophia shook her head again. “He left before I regained consciousness,” she explained.

After that, however, she produced a stack of neatly-folded receipts from her Pikachu-themed pajamas’

pocket and added, “These are the bills that he signed back then.”

She had been keeping these receipts over the years in case she met the man again. After all, the man had saved her life.

Gemma immediately took the bills from her and saw the name ‘Dylan Lee’ written on them in an illegible and distorted manner.

She quickly found the person who had signed this name by comparing the handwriting. Soon after that, the large screen showed the photo of a person whose face looked as vicious as a demon as he held up a bleeding human head.

Gemma introduced, “He is Quill Lee, one of the top assassins working under the Phantom Wolf’s leader.

He had been wanted in eight countries, but he was killed in a joint counter-terrorism operation conducted by Interpol. The phone number just now should have belonged to him, but it is already out of service.”

After another round of searching, Gemma continued, “Two doctors and three nurses were on duty in Lovely Hospital’s duty room on the late night of 15th of March. All the five people have died from different kinds of accidents within a year, which includes drowning, road accidents, and fires.”

Sophia’s eyes widened in an instant. The guy who had paid her bills was a terrorist, and all five doctors and nurses who had saved her life back then were dead? What on earth had happened?

Everyone else gasped in horror as well. Their next step was to find out who had been on duty in the hospital’s duty room back then. Since the Phantom Wolf’s leader was strikingly handsome, he must have made quite an impression on these people; they might’ve had a breakthrough in their investigations.

However, little did they expect the Phantom Wolf’s leader to have murdered all the five people!

What a cruel man he was!

Michael walked up and patted Gemma on the shoulder before saying, “Please work hard tonight and look through all the surveillance footage near the scenes where the five people were killed to search for possible clues.”

Gemma nodded as she began her work without any complaints or regrets.

Then, Michael led a dazed and confused Sophia out of his study by holding her hand.

They went back to the bedroom, but the previously romantic atmosphere had disappeared without a trace; the sight of the shackle-like scar on Sophia’s ankle gave him a headache.

Why on earth would the Phantom Wolf’s leader leave his symbol of death on her ankle?

Feeling uneasy, Sophia asked him, “What’s wrong, hubby?”

Michael let out a sigh before he sat down and explained the whole story to Sophia.

After listening to his explanation, Sophia felt as though her world had been turned upside down.

The scar on her ankle was actually left by the leader of a terrorist organization, and the Good Samaritan who had set her broken bone back then was actually a ruthless killer who could snap a person’s spine in two with his bare hands!

He wouldn’t have left this mark on her ankle for no reason—he might track her down using this mark someday!

Suddenly, a strange conversation came into her mind, and she remembered having heard the conversation back when she was lying in a comatose state in Lovely Hospital. The Phantom Wolf’s leader was talking to the person named Quill at the side of her bed.

“Why did you save her life, Chief?”

“I want to keep a pet dog.”

“But the situation is tense right now; you’ll arouse suspicions if you bring a person along with you.”

“There is no need to hurry yet; I’ll come for her in the future.”

She thought that the conversation was merely a dream. However, now that she thought about it, the conversation might have actually happened in real life.

Seeing that Sophia’s face went increasingly pale, Michael immediately comforted her and said, “It’s alright. Don’t worry, I’ll keep you safe.”

He then added, “I have told Hale to make a reservation for laser scar removal. We’ll have your scar removed within the next two days.”

Sophia clutched onto Michael’s clothes the whole time since she was too afraid to speak. Suddenly, she felt a chill running down her spine; it was as if a pair of hands were behind her back and could snap her spine into two anytime.

Michael spent the entire night soothing her, saying, “It’s alright; it’s over now. The Phantom Wolf hasn’t popped up over the past two years, so he had probably put this incident out of his mind.”

He spent a long time soothing Sophia’s nerves before she relaxed a little at long last. The instant she relaxed, tiredness overcame her and she fell asleep soon after that.

Although she was asleep, Michael couldn’t sleep at all. He could nearly squash a fly to death with the deep furrows in his brow when it occurred to him that his wife had been made a target by the perverted Phantom Wolf.

He crept out of the bedroom only to bump into Gary. Gary was hesitant at first, but he mustered up his courage and suggested, “Boss, actually… the Phantom Wolf wouldn’t leave this mark for no reason… so why don’t we…”

“No,” Michael refused him flatly.

He understood what Gary meant by that. If the Phantom Wolf saw this mark, he might reveal himself on his own initiative. By then, they could just stand by and wait for…

However, Michael would never risk putting Sophia in danger. He ordered, “Have the laser scar removal done tomorrow. Also, tell Gemma to delete all potentially troublesome photos of Madam from all over the Internet, including the university’s alumni group website and official message board.”

While taking part in the women’s basketball competition earlier, Sophia had worn a pair of short sweatpants that revealed the scar on her ankle; many people had taken photos and videos of her and uploaded them to their faculty’s message board. These photos and videos must be deleted.

Sh*t! Why didn’t I realize that earlier? Michael thought to himself.

With that, Gary left in silence.

Hale suddenly felt that a heavier responsibility had been placed on his shoulders. When Michael previously told him to keep watch on Sophia, he had so much time on his hands that he lazed around all day. However, after learning that the Phantom Wolf had his eyes on Sophia, he immediately reverted back to his old self—the self who had spent his days shedding blood while associating with people from different ranks of the society back then.

8Daniel and Harry—who lived in the same neighborhood as Michael and Sophia—soon learned of what had happened as well. They came to Villa No. 8 to discuss the countermeasures with Michael as well.

The night passed under enormous tension. The next day, Sophia was sent to the cosmetic hospital as soon as she got out of bed.

It wasn’t until the scar removal surgery was done that she sighed with relief when she saw that the mark on her ankle had disappeared. At the same time, photos of her on the Internet had been completely wiped out.

The Phantom Wolf would never be able to find her.

The Phantom Wolf was a very handsome man, whereas she looked especially ugly with her dark-

skinned and unstylish appearance back then after being beaten black and blue. How was the Phantom Wolf going to track her down?

I’m broke, unattractive, and too plain to be kept as a pet dog. Yeah, that must be the case; that must be the case, Sophia thought to herself.