Chapter 439 Obsession Laid Bare

What Quinn said next answered all their questions.

“Johnathan, you’ll never know how much I gave up just to be near you. I studied day and night, but I was still just a regular person. Then, I found a way, even if it might have killed me, I still chose it because it could make you see me. The rejection was intense, so I went through constant chemotherapy, constant experiments. Do you really think my body broke down for no reason? It was all because of that.”

“Oh, and do you know how Dora came to be? She really is my child. I wanted to transfer all the toxins in my body into her, so I chose to get pregnant. Sadly, it didn’t work. That useless Timothy was a complete failure.”

At this, Johnathan raised an eyebrow in surprise. He had been suspecting that the man standing with his back to them was Timothy—the build was similar—but now it clearly wasn’t.

And the chip implant experiment? Even he had never heard of such a thing.

He really wanted to know who that man was.

But the figure hadn’t moved or spoken again.

Johnathan never understood where Quinn’s obsession had come from. He had sensed for a time that something was off with Quinn’s feelings toward him, but he’d assumed it was just adolescent confusion. So once he realized it, he had distanced himself quickly.

Back then, he wasn’t thinking of being with anyone. Precisely because he cared about Quinn, treated her like the person closest to him, he hadn’t wanted to hurt her.

And yet, everything had twisted into this.

Still, he didn’t feel he’d done anything wrong. At the end of the day, it was Quinn who had taken her obsession too far.

Worried that something might go wrong, he made another discreet hand gesture. Stone immediately ordered his team to open fire. Their bullets were special. They hadn’t come to kill Quinn or the others—their goal was to eliminate the organization.

In the earpiece, Sierra heard the sound of gunfire and grew nervous. Mateo, beside her, reassured her:

“Don’t worry, Sierra. There’s plenty of backup. They’ll be fine.”

“Okay.”

Sierra responded, anxiously waiting for good news from Johnathan.

He didn’t keep her waiting long before returning.

“How’d it go?” Sierra quickly asked.

Chapter 439 Obsession Laid Bare

“Quinn’s been captured. That man is dead.”

“What?”

Sierra was shocked. They had been using tranquilizer rounds—they weren’t supposed to kill anyone.

“He was already dead, not long after we arrived.”

Johnathan’s expression darkened. While he had been speaking to Quinn, the man never moved or said a word. At the time, Johnathan thought maybe he had some final move prepared.

But when the tranquilizer hit him and there was no reaction at all, they knew something was wrong. Rushing over, they found the man was already dead. No one had noticed—he’d been leaning quietly against the railing.

And it had been a decisive act. He had slit his own throat, giving himself no chance at survival.

Sierra was stunned. The leader of the organization—gone, just like that? And in such a way?

“What about Quinn?”

“She’s in custody, along with another one.”

This wasn’t over. That mysterious figure—the supposed leader—had been so elusive. There was no way it ended there.

Johnathan suspected the man might have been a decoy. But when they flipped the body over, the shock on Quinn’s and Trihands’ faces didn’t look fake.

For now, he couldn’t be sure if the man really had been the boss.

“Let’s go home,” Johnathan said.

In any case, this chapter had temporarily come to an end. Over the past few days, Sierra had exhausted herself helping coordinate his “fake death.”

She nodded, and they returned home.

The next day, Stone and the others gathered at Johnathan’s place to report on Quinn and the other man.

“Quinn’s lips are tight—we can’t get anything out of her. Same for the other guy. He’s one of the organization’s Trihands. He’s saying nothing either. Judging by his expression, it’s like their leader died and he lost all reason to keep going. We’ve assigned people to watch them 24/7. There won’t be any surprises.”

The state was treating this case with utmost seriousness. Johnathan’s situation had been a last-minute collaboration—but it had worked out incredibly well.

Even Johnathan hadn’t expected things to go so smoothly.

Back then, he hadn’t known if he would even wake up again. After taking the drug Sierra developed, he’d felt like his whole body was tearing apart. In that moment, only one thought crossed his mind:

Good thing Sierra isn’t here. If she saw this, she’d only worry again.