Chapter 377: Chapter 378

Chapter 378 Noah’s Miscalculation

While Madeline was carrying Xander out from the research site, they were welcomed by Trenton’s

reinforcement, causing another fight to break out. As Madeline was getting exhausted by the fights and

worried about Xander’s grave condition, she called out to Lone Wolf, “Lone Wolf, distract the men

outside for me.”

She knew that it was a great opportunity to catch Trenton, but she dared not risk Xander’s life for it.

“No way, woman! I managed to corner Tristan though! I must get my revenge on him!” Lone Wolf had

decided to put an end to Trenton’s life, but Madeline's resolute and worried stance prevented him from

doing so.

“I’ll have Noah free your brother and share with you half of the research findings! Distract those men for

me now!”

“Mommy, daddy’s having a fever,” Mackenzie whispered after touching Xander’s forehead. Madeline had

just assisted Xander by applying a makeshift bandage to his wound, but with the constant ducking of

gunshots, Xander's wound was bound to reopen. Soon, Xander’s blood had already seeped through the

bandage.

“Fine, I’ll let him go for your sake.” Although unwilling to do so, Lone Wolf eventually retrieved his Golden

Threads and left the passageway with the others, not forgetting to lock the door.

Trenton, on the other hand, was hiding behind a boulder. He had become physically frail due to the

infection and his many injuries. If Lone Wolf had persisted to fight him, Trenton would have died.

“Trenton, here.” Cameron crawled out from the pile of dead bodies and extended a hand to Trenton,

helping him to his feet. As he did so, he caught sight of Trenton's menacing glare directed toward the site

exit. “Tell the others to not let a single one of them get out of here alive,” he ordered.

Cameron, who had previously been defeated by Madeline, naturally agreed with Trenton’s command.

“Roger,” he replied. “Our men had received a blueprint for this mansion’s layout. There should be

another exit in here.”

Cameron led Trenton to the door he had blown open earlier with explosives. Trenton stood at the door

and looked up as he smirked. “It's just getting more exciting from here on out.”

By the time Noah brought reinforcements back to the mansion, he saw that the fighting was far from

over. Everyone was eager to kill each other. Noah’s heart sank as he saw the ruined entrance and the

scattered furnishings. How did things turn out this way? It was impossible! He had deployed an excellent

team of veterans, whom he had spent more than a decade training them in Uranica. It would take a

miracle for Trenton’s men to break into the mansion, but the chaos in front of him proved otherwise and

broke his heart all the same.

In a panic, Noah sprinted into the site, where he saw the blown-up entryway and immediately feared for

the worst. Neither Madeline nor the children were here. Noah swiftly seized onto one of the men fighting

and pressed a gun onto the man’s forehead as he questioned, “Where are the children?”

Evidently siding with Trenton, the man scowled back at Noah without responding. A stray bullet soon

ended his short life. Once the fighting died down, Noah’s men surveyed the area and reported that

Madeline’s army was wiped out, leaving only Trenton’s forces.

“Mr. Quinton, we’ve searched through every inch of the mansion but we’ve yet to find Madeline and the

children,” the bodyguard reported while wanting to lend a hand when seeing Noah staggered into the

research site.

Staring at the destroyed site, Noah reminisced when Thomas and the kids would play in there. He held

back his tears as he ordered his men to bring Trenton’s men forward to be tortured and interrogated.

Screams and crying pleads echoed throughout the site. Sadly, Noah was not able to obtain useful

information from Trenton’s group of mercenaries as they were recruited hastily, so they did not know

much about Madeline and the others; they were simply tasked to capture every single person in the

mansion.

“Tell us everything you know or we’ll use the hard way to make you speak!” One of the bodyguards

picked up a scorching hot metal piece before walking toward one of the mercenaries. The foreign

mercenary, shaken by the sight before him, began pleading for mercy.

“Please, I beg of you! Don’t do it! I’ll tell you everything!”

“Spill it out if you’ve seen the kids.” Noah approached the mercenary and stared coldly at him as if he

was the Grim Reaper himself.

“All I saw was a girl. She was with another woman who was carrying a man who appeared to be gravely

hurt. They fled the mansion and hop onto a land rover,” the mercenary explained.

Noah’s finger on the gun’s trigger trembled as he asked, “How was the woman? Was she also badly

hurt?”

“Her clothes were stained by blood, but I don’t know if the blood was hers or the man’s. However, the girl

seemed to be unharmed.” The mercenary looked pleadingly at Noah, hoping that the information he

gave would get him out of here alive.

Unfortunately, Noah took a step forward and shot him without hesitating. He dared not ask where

Thomas and Colton were besides the girl. Were they caught by Trenton, or did Madeline help them to

escape?

“Check the surveillance footage. Find Madeline’s whereabouts,” Noah ordered whilst trying to avoid

getting overwhelmed by his emotions.

“Yes, sir.”

While some of his men went about carrying out his command, others returned to report, “Mr. Quincy, the

majority of the people in the mansion were Trenton’s mercenaries, but there were not a lot of casualties

for Madeline’s side either.”

The number of casualties seems minimal; might this be because nobody was present to defend them?

Noah shuddered at the thought of what it must have been like for Madeline and the others. He grabbed

the arm of a dead mercenary and said, “I want you to find anyone with this tattoo and report back to me

on how many there were.”

Noah had detained two hundred men, which was impossible for Trenton to gather in a short amount of

time. Before long, his bodyguard returned. “Twenty men, sir.”

Noah went to check on those men and noticed that three of them were the troop leaders he had

assigned. There were supposedly six troop leaders, so it meant that the remaining three had led their

squads to betray him. Noah was bewildered; he had worked hard to train these men who were given to

him by his mother. Why would they betray him now of all times? Despite that, Noah was firm in tracking

down the traitors and making them pay for their treachery.

“Mr. Quincy, we discovered the whereabouts of Mrs. Quincy,” his bodyguards reported upon returning

back from the investigation. Noah’s face beamed and hurriedly ran out of the mansion to his car. He then

navigated his way to the private mansion his men had reported to him about. As he drove, he prayed for

the safety of Madeline and the children. Otherwise, he would live a life of regrets and woe.