IMAO Chapter 139.2

The next day.

As usual, He Chuan gave him a good morning kiss before climbing out the window.

After getting dressed, his subordinate entered.

“Boss, haven’t you been staying at the West Garden Villa too often lately? You’re there every three or four days now.” The bald man looked at his boss with concern, asking quietly.

Their boss had more than a hundred residences in North Mali, not counting hotels. As an interstellar arms dealer who could be targeted at any moment, he had to be careful. Just days ago, an assassin had tried to kill the boss at West Garden Villa, but fortunately nothing happened. They had dealt with the assassin.

He immediately regretted his words when his boss shot him a cold look, making his legs go weak.

“Have someone watch Musser.”

The bald man was stunned. Musser was the boss’s bodyguard, one of their own. “Boss, is there something wrong with Musser? Should I…”

“No, he’s fine. Someone might try to kidnap him soon,” Lucy said coolly. “Oh, and just make sure he doesn’t get taken. Pretend to try catching the kidnapper, but don’t actually catch them.”

“Huh?” The bald man was completely confused. This was definitely the strangest order his boss had ever given!

Lucy raised an eyebrow.

“Yes, Boss!”

***

He Chuan wrapped his arms around Lucy’s waist, holding him tight. “I was planning to deal with Milo first, kidnap him and take him back, so I could focus on investigating your family’s whereabouts. But that arms dealer seems to be planning something big lately. Milo only goes out with his men now. I can’t get a chance to make a move.”

“Then we’ll wait longer,” Lucy said softly.

“Yeah, that’s all we can do.” He Chuan said, “Actually, I’m more worried about you than Milo now. I really want to take you away right now.”

Lucy felt the breathing and heartbeat behind him. Just as he was about to speak, a hot tear fell on his shoulder.

Lucy was silent for two seconds, then turned around and held He Chuan’s chin. Seeing He Chuan’s reddened eyes, he said, “You’re crying…”

Looking at He Chuan’s tear-stained face, Lucy felt his heart pounding so hard it seemed ready to leap from his chest straight into the other’s hands.

Lucy hugged He Chuan back, his eyes gradually darkening.

***

He Chuan felt like he was walking on eggshells every day. Just thinking about Nolan being kept in that villa by the arms dealer made his heart ache like it was being stabbed by needles. What happened in that villa when he wasn’t there?

Would that bastard touch Nolan?

These thoughts nearly drove He Chuan mad.

Without any prior arrangement, he went to the villa again. Previously, Nolan would always set up a time with him before he visited, but this time he came without any appointment.

The villa was quiet, but after searching every corner, He Chuan couldn’t find Nolan anywhere!

He couldn’t help but worry. Did that arms dealer discover his relationship with Nolan?

He immediately messaged Nolan: “Nolan, where are you?”

The reply came quickly: At home.

He Chuan glanced at the empty villa, his mind wrestling with one question: why would Nolan lie to him?

Nolan: What’s wrong?
He Chuan: Nothing… just asking.
Nolan: Oh… then shall we meet tomorrow night?
He Chuan: Okay.

***

He Chuan didn’t leave all night. He stayed in the villa because he wanted to know when Nolan would return.

Around 10 PM the next evening, a car finally pulled into the villa’s driveway. He Chuan took a quick look from the window before hiding in one of the rooms.

“Boss, I drugged that disrespectful guy from last time with seven or eight different substances. He’s probably begging for it like a wild animal right now.”

He Chuan heard someone say this and frowned.

This arms dealer was really going too far, drugging someone just for being disrespectful. What a lunatic…

He hid under the bed, frowning.

Lucy washed his hands and gently dried them with a towel while listening to his subordinate’s report about recent business matters.

Half an hour later, he checked the time. It was almost time for his appointment with He Chuan, so he said, “Alright, you can all leave now. I need to rest.”

“Yes, Boss!”

But He Chuan, who was still hiding under the bed, widened his eyes in shock because… the voice of the person called “Boss” was identical to Nolan’s!

After everyone left, the man took some clothes and went into the bathroom. As the sound of running water filled the air, He Chuan crawled out from under the bed and stared at the transparent glass window with a complicated expression.

…

“You’re here?” Lucy asked with a smile in his eyes as he came out from his shower and saw He Chuan.

He Chuan, now completely certain of his suspicions, found himself at a loss for words.

“Why aren’t you talking? Are you not feeling well?” Lucy pressed his hand against He Chuan’s forehead, making He Chuan instinctively step back.

Seeing this reaction and glancing at the still-closed window, Lucy immediately understood. “Seems you didn’t listen to me. You heard my conversation with my subordinate earlier, didn’t you?”

He Chuan remained silent, staring intently at Lucy.

***

One month later.

“Instructor, I can’t believe you actually brought Milo back! To get someone back from ‘Crazy Lucy’, you’re amazing, Instructor!”

Gu Bai, Cyril, Liu Shan, and the rest of his students burst into tears upon seeing Milo. When they learned about his memory loss, they tried everything to trigger his memories, but all attempts failed.

After sending Milo back to school, He Chuan recalled that night when he discovered Nolan was actually the arms dealer Lucy, and his head began to throb.

“Now that you know, what do you plan to do? Kill me?”

Kill Lucy? No, impossible. He admitted he couldn’t do it, because this wasn’t just the infamous arms dealer Lucy. This was also Nolan, the person he had feelings for.

“He Chuan, sleep with me. If you make me happy, I’ll let you take your student away.”

As he spoke, Lucy grabbed He Chuan’s chin with one hand while undoing his belt buckle with the other…

That day, they had intense sex, day and night, countless times. During their encounters, he deliberately pushed Lucy to his limits, not stopping even when Lucy passed out, and even possessively marked him.

A few days later, Lucy seemed to have business to attend to and left the villa dressed. Several days after that, Lucy’s subordinates brought Milo to him and escorted them from the villa.

***

He Chuan felt he had reached his limit. Logic told him he shouldn’t seek out an interstellar arms dealer. He was a Federation soldier, after all. But ultimately, he couldn’t control himself and returned to the villa once more.

However, after staking out the villa for a month, he never saw Lucy. Instead, he met the property’s new owner.

“This villa has been sold?” He Chuan felt dazed.

“Yes, I just bought it… Sir, are you alright?”

“I’m fine.”

He Chuan left the villa. Thanks to his time tracking Milo, he remembered several of Lucy’s bodyguards, and quickly located one of them.

He grabbed the man’s collar. “I want to see your boss.”

The bodyguard: ???

***

He Chuan met Lucy in the grand hall of an unfamiliar villa. Besides Lucy, there was also a striking woman in the room.

The woman sat next to Lucy, her head tilted towards him as they talked. She was so close that she could almost touch his cheek. The scene made He Chuan’s eyes burn. He recognized her identity, Selina, the leader of North Mali’s military forces.

“I thought we wouldn’t need to meet again.” Lucy leaned back into the sofa, chin slightly raised, his tone cold and aloof.

“Why is she here?”

The woman holding a wine glass smiled at him, almost tauntingly, as she wrapped an arm around Lucy’s neck. Her eyes gleamed with amusement. “What do you think?”

Seeing this, He Chuan shoved the woman aside, grabbed Lucy, and forcibly dragged him to a room upstairs.

“What are you doing?” Lucy asked irritably while adjusting his shirt cuffs.

“What’s your relationship with her?”

Hearing He Chuan’s demanding question, Lucy replied, “How is that any of your business?”

Seeing Lucy’s composed demeanor only fueled He Chuan’s anger. He gripped Lucy’s jaw. “You’re already marked by me, and you dare fool around with others? You’re asking for it!”

As soon as the words left his mouth, He Chuan felt cold metal against his neck. It was a gun. Lucy patted his cheek. “I didn’t quite catch that. Care to repeat it?”

With a gun pressed against him, He Chuan could only back down: “…”

Lucy raised an eyebrow. “Didn’t I tell you to leave? Why did you come back?”

He Chuan: “…”

Lucy: “Speak.”

He Chuan felt the gun slide down to his Adam’s apple. He swallowed hard, meeting Lucy’s deep gaze, and admitted defeat. “I missed you. I really wanted to see you, so I came.”

“I missed you too.” The armed man suddenly moved closer, lowered his gun, and pressed a kiss to He Chuan’s throat. “After letting you go, I regretted it within days. I was planning to go to the Federation to kidnap you back, with Selina covering for me. Now that you’re back, I won’t have to risk offending the Federation by kidnapping one of their officers.”

He Chuan: “Are you serious?”

Lucy just looked at him silently, clearly indicating his words weren’t a joke.

He Chuan: “…”

His partner was truly insane! Actually considering kidnapping a military officer!

But.

He loved it.

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