Chapter 306 Checkmate 

“Exactly.” 

Alice frowned. “So I was your target from the start, and Chloe was just a pawn?” 

Magnus burst out laughing. “You’re pretty smart 

Alice didn’t seem to fully grasp how dangerous her situation was. 

She wasn’t scared at all. 

Eric, on the other hand, was extremely cautious. He had Daniel take a team to search for explosives. 

Magnus didn’t stop them, because he didn’t care whether they found anything or not. 

The bomb would detonate automatically, whether someone pressed the remote or tried to disarm it. 

Alice spoke again. 

“If you’re after me, then let Chloe go first. She’s in really bad shape.” 

Only then did Magnus bother to look at his wife. 

Earlier, Chloe had been struggling violently, but now she was unnaturally still. 

When his eyes fell on her, he froze. 

“Blood?” 

Chloe’s face was as pale as paper. She lay there with her eyes half closed, and it was hard to tell if she was still conscious. 

A pool of blood had formed beneath her. 

Every time she breathed, it seemed to spread a little more. 

Magnus’s breathing stopped. 

He even forgot that he still had a bigger mission to carry out. 

The moment he realized what he was losing, his legs gave out and he collapsed onto the deck. 

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Chapter 306 Checkmate 

Eric’s bodyguards immediately stepped forward and lifted Chloe up. 

+10 Free Coins 

Magnus tried to stop them, but his raised hand fell instead, slamming hard against the floor. Then he slapped himself twice, viciously. 

“Magnus, from what I know, you got dragged into this because of gambling. Everything you’re doing now is because of your debts, right? That man promised you that if you finished the job, your debts would be wiped clean,” Alice said calmly. 

Every word she spoke cut into him. 

He punched his own head over and over, the blood vessels in his eyes so red they looked ready to burst. 

“It was just a more elaborate scam, and you actually believed it?” 

Magnus suddenly jumped to his feet and glared at her. 

“Stop talking. Shut up. Shut up!” 

From where he stood, he could see medical personnel rushing in and beginning to examine Chloe. 

A wave of panic hit him for no reason at all. 

Alice seized the opportunity and moved fast. 

“Ah!” 

With a scream, Magnus was pinned to the ground. 

Unwilling to give up, he immediately pressed the button on the remote in his hand. 

Then, wearing a wild grin, he closed his eyes. 

But the massive explosion he expected never came. 

He opened his eyes again in confusion. 

Armed officers had already rushed in and were snapping handcuffs onto his wrists. 

“That’s impossible. Impossible! I personally watched them place the bomb. How could it not explode?” 

Alice found his panic almost laughable. 

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If he really wanted to die, why hadn’t he done it sooner? 

If he’d died earlier, not only would he have freed himself, but Chloe could’ve been spared a lot of pain too. 

Still being alive now was just a waste of air. 

“Magnus, do you really think you’re the only one who understands bombs?” Alice said coldly. 

When Alice had been on the phone with Eric, she had already considered every possible 

outcome. 

That was why the people Eric had left behind finally came in handy. 

They had slipped directly into the ship and actually found the bomb. 

Afterward, they realized how unstable it was. One wrong move and it could’ve exploded. 

There was no choice but to call in a bomb disposal expert. 

No one knew exactly how he did it, but somehow he managed to take the bomb apart. 

Only after confirming that the bomb was no longer a threat did Alice board the ship. 

“No, that’s impossible. Just now … just now Mr. Eric sent people to look for the bomb!” 

Alice decided to let him understand the truth before it was over. 

“If we hadn’t done it that way, how do you think we got you to talk?” 

Magnus froze. 

In the end, he had been completely outplayed. 

He had lost his child, and his wife’s life was still hanging in the balance. 

“What’s your relationship with this Sun?” 

Alice cut straight to the point. “Do you really not care whether your wife lives or dies?” 

Magnus snapped back to reality 

nd looked toward the shore. 

Chloe had already been transferred into an ambulance, and he had no idea how she was doing. 

Now, he was genuinely terrified. 

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To be honest, when he found out Chloe wanted to report him, he had been furious, and he had hit her. 

But for someone as ruthless as him, he still couldn’t bring himself to kill her. 

All he could do was trap them both in endless torment. 

In the end, with the mission closing in, he had no choice but to take Chloe with him. 

From the very beginning until now, he had never truly meant to hurt her. 

He had only wanted to teach her a lesson. 

To make her understand that her husband was someone she had to protect, not betray, based on her own impulses. 

Who would’ve thought that Chloe would end up like this… 

Tears kept streaming down his face. 

His child was gone. 

Completely gone. 

Then he lowered his head and looked at the handcuffs around his wrists. 

In this lifetime, he probably wouldn’t ever have another child. 

He let out a bitter laugh, feeling like fate had played a cruel joke on him. 

No. That wasn’t it. 

Suddenly, he realized something. 

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