Unexpected Marriage With Mr. Leighton: Rebirth of the Villain-Chapter 276: DISTRACTION

Elric reached for his gun and

aimed at the person who walked in, but then Payton growled at him.

"Put the gun down. It’s me!"

He said, annoyed. "Can someone put out the smoke? This smoke annoyed the hell

out of me! I just punched my twin, thinking he was the enemy!" Payton

complained as he waved his hand in front of his face to get rid of the smoke.

"Are you sure that was an

accident when you punched your brother?" Elric narrowed his eyes. He lowered

the gun, but he was still at the ready.

Payton complained some more

about how Paxton looked like one of the men who barged into the house as the

fight started when they were twins.

Hazel had no patience to

listen to Payton’s complaint. She snatched Elric’s gun and shoved Payton aside

because he blocked her way.

"NO! Hazel!" Elric couldn’t

believe she managed to snatch the gun out of his hand. "Go get her!"

"Why?" Payton rubbed his left

shoulder. He hit the wall when Hazel pushed him away. "She is great with guns.

I saw it myself. She can help."

Elric glared at Payton; he

didn’t waste his time arguing with him as he went inside.

***

"Hi, baby girl!" Laurel

squeezed Ashlyn’s body tightly, kissing her cheeks, while the little one

giggled happily. "Miss me? Of course, you miss me." She kissed her some more.

"Have you eaten?"

"Not yet, she has been playing

all day with Peni. I just bathed her." Renna brought a small bowl of food for

Ashlyn.

"Give it to me," Laurel said,

and Renna handed over the bowls. "I need to go out for a while to run some

errands. Can you look after her for a while?"

"Of course, don’t worry. You

can leave." Laurel waved her hand. She was so eager to spend her time with her

niece.

"Please, make sure she eats

her broccoli," Renna said. "She doesn’t really like vegetables."

"Okay."

Renna then left. But when

Ashlyn saw the broccoli in her bowl, she covered her mouth. "No. No boccoli."

She shook her head and moved away from Laurel.

However, Laurel caught her

pants and pulled her back.

"No, you need to eat

vegetables so you will grow up."

"No," Ashlyn said, more

clearly now. She tried to crawl away, but Laurel still held her by her pants.

"No, Ash hates boccoli."

"Ugh." Laurel was torn. "Fine,

I will eat the broccoli, but you will finish all the food, okay?"

Ashlyn stopped crawling away

from her. She looked at Laurel curiously with her doe eyes and waited for her

aunt to eat the vegetable she didn’t like.

Finally, Laurel ate all the

broccoli. "Don’t tell your mother or Renna, okay?"

Ashlyn giggled and then

crawled back to kiss Laurel on the cheek. "Love you, Aunty..."

Ah... Laurel felt she could eat

broccoli for the rest of her life. "Love you too, little muffin."

***

The screen smoke had faded a

little bit; it was not as thick as before, which allowed them to see their

surroundings more clearly.

The enemy had also switched

their view from the infrared light.

The number of men infiltrating the building was

relatively low, but their unexpected use of this method caught them off guard.

Hazel moved forward, trying to

spot Ranon, but instead, she saw a man sneak behind Desgar. He aimed his gun at Desgar, who was unaware of

the threat as he tied up one of the intruders for later interrogation with

Paxton.

One of the twins had an ugly

bruise on his left eye; probably that was what Payton had done.

Hazel didn’t think twice; she

raised her gun and shot the other man on his right shoulder, causing him to

drop the gun and get Desgar and Paxton’s attention.

"Where is Ranon?" Hazel asked,

and she took the gun that the man had dropped, while Paxton approached her to

tie the man up.

"The third floor. There is

this tattoo guy, who smokes out the buildings."

Hazel immediately left; she

didn’t listen to Paxton, who told her not to approach them. "That man is

dangerous; he killed four of our men!"

Hearing that, Hazel hastened

her steps. She didn’t even realize how she prayed for Ranon to be alright. Her

heart was hammering in her chest painfully. She wanted to move faster than

this.

On top of the stairs, Hazel

heard the fighting sound on her left. There were a few dead bodies on the floor;

some of the men she recognized, but some she didn’t.

However, she didn’t have time

to think about it. She rushed into the room where the fighting sound was coming

from and saw that Ranon was fighting a man in a black outfit. Indeed, the man

had a striking red rose tattoo on his neck.

Hazel didn’t know who this man

was, but...

He was indeed an outstanding

fighter!

The first thing that Hazel

realized was the weird angle of Ranon’s left shoulder. The tattoo man must have

dislocated his shoulder during the fight, but Ranon’s opponent was not in good

condition either.

The tattoo man had the left

side of his head bleeding, and upon closer look, Hazel noticed he had lost his

left ear.

"It has been a while since we

had a match, Ranon. I thought you had forgotten how to fight, since you have

been sitting behind your pretty desk all the time."

Ranon said nothing because his

eyes caught Hazel’s figure behind his opponent. He looked furious with her, as

if he wanted to fight her instead.

Hazel would deal with Ranon

later. She aimed her gun at the tattoo man, but all of a sudden, he turned

around and threw a knife at her.

This movement caught Hazel off

guard, but thankfully, her reflexes were good enough to deflect the knife, as

it only grazed her arm.

Meanwhile, Ranon had pinned

the tattoo man to the ground, ignoring the pain from his dislocated shoulder,

and he punched the side of the man’s face, the spot where he had missed his ear.

He roared in pain as Ranon

continued to punch him. He

managed to shove Ranon aside and snatch a gun that had probably fallen during

the fight.

Yet, before he could take it,

Hazel had shot his hand, but all of a sudden, someone grabbed her hair when she

was about to aim at the tattoo man’s head.

The second man who grabbed

Hazel’s hair shoved her head against the table, but she kicked it away before

her forehead could hit it, twisted her body, tripped the man, and shot him

between his eyes.

However, when Hazel looked

over at Ranon and his opponent, she watched as the tattoo man ran through the

window and then jumped from the third floor, and this shocked her.

"What the fuck?" Hazel

immediately went to the window to see if the man had died from falling, but

Ranon quickly grabbed her arm.

"Stay away from the window!

There are snipers!" He said angrily. His eyes were ablaze with rage. "What do

you think you are doing?! I told Elric to get you out of here!"

"I am worried about you!"

Hazel shouted back; she didn’t appreciate being shouted at.

The adrenaline was still very

high, and both of them tensed up from worrying about each other, but finally it

was Ranon who stepped down first.

He said nothing, but he hugged

her with his uninjured arm.

"Don’t do that

again," Ranon said. Gayle Lennox was excellent with knives. Ranon had seen

him take someone’s life with a single throw of his knife a few times.

Therefore, for a split second

there, Ranon thought Gayle had gotten Hazel...

"No, I’ll do it

again," Hazel said stubbornly. She wouldn’t make a promise she didn’t

intend to keep, but Ranon didn’t appreciate that. "You know I can hold my

ground."

"That’s not the point, Hazel!"

Ranon was furious now, and when he raised his voice, he made Hazel startle.

Ranon was rarely angry with

her; even when he was, he had never raised his voice. He looked as if he wanted

to strangle her.

"Come, I will fix your

shoulder," Hazel said to diffuse the situation.

Ranon glared at her for a

moment before he lowered his body and sat down so it would make it easier for

Hazel to do it.

Hazel moved to his side and 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝚠𝕖𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝕖𝚕.𝚌𝗼𝗺

felt it. He indeed had a dislocated shoulder. "This is going to hurt," she said

in warning. "Do you want to count to three?"

Ranon didn’t say anything. He

was still upset with her, so Hazel took the initiative to count.

"One, two, three." Hazel used

all of her strength to fix it. This treatment was only temporary; they still

needed to go to the hospital. "Your pain tolerance must be very high."

Hazel didn’t say that in a

condescending tone, but she was impressed. Even some of River’s men who looked

tough would make at least a grunt when she did this.

But Ranon acted like nothing

happened.

"How is it downstairs?" Ranon

stood up and grabbed Hazel’s hand. Neither of them noticed the cut on her arm.

"They took care of them. I

think it is fine now." Hazel tried to hear the sound from downstairs, but the

commotion had ceased. "I heard Arthur was shot."

"He is there with his daughter

and the child." Ranon nodded to the room on his left. He stopped walking and

then looked at Hazel. "Did you put someone to be in the room with Arlo?"