"You wait here, I’ll go!" Daniel Harris said, already running faster in the direction the thief had escaped.
Mabel Quinn wouldn’t just stay in place, naturally she continued running forward. However, the speed difference between n and won becos apparent in such monts. Even as she ran desperately, the distance grew larger and very quickly, she could already see their figures.
Mabel could only estimate the general direction and kept running. Finally, she heard the sounds of a fight. She ran towards the sound and saw Daniel Harris bent over, rummaging through the person’s pockets, and then took out her longevity lock.
The thief was already knocked to the ground, with a blood-stained dagger fallen beside him.
Daniel Harris stepped on the thief’s spine with one foot to prevent him from getting up. With the other hand, he held the longevity lock, smiled slightly at the approaching Mabel Quinn, and said, "Here, your thing, luckily it wasn’t lost."
His smile was so subtly elegant, and his voice calm and gentle, just like when she couldn’t find the bracelet she made as a child and searched for it for a long ti. She never knew where he found it, but back then, he too smiled at her like this and said in a plain tone, "Here, your bracelet, luckily it wasn’t lost."
Even though at that ti, his eyes couldn’t see anything, she never knew how he found her bracelet, or how much ti he spent.
And now, he is still the sa, very casual in deanor. But under the moonlight, an arm hanging at his side was bleeding, fresh blood flowing down his sleeve, along his fingers, winding down and dripping onto the concrete ground.
At this mont, Mabel Quinn only felt her eyes burning, and her steps becoming incredibly heavy.
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Mabel Quinn reported to the police and then went with Daniel Harris to the nearby hospital. Fortunately, because it was still cold and they wore many layers, the two cuts on Daniel Harris’s arm from the thief didn’t damage any nerves, they were just superficial wounds.
After Daniel Harris’s wounds were treated, Mabel Quinn returned to her residence and took inventory of the things in the house, confirming that the thief had only stolen so change she kept in a money jar and that gold lock piece. The White Jade Ring was probably missed because it was smaller and more hidden.
After making a record at the police station, Mabel Quinn looked at Daniel Harris and asked, "Does your arm still hurt?"
"It’s just a superficial wound, doesn’t hurt much." He said lightly.
She pursed her lips, "Thank you for helping get back the longevity lock, but it caused you to get hurt. The other side had a dagger, you... actually, you could have let him go, the longevity lock could have been retrieved in other ways."
"But this longevity lock is very important to you, isn’t it?" Daniel Harris said.
An astonished look passed through Mabel Quinn’s eyes, "How do you know?"
"If it weren’t important, you wouldn’t have chased so desperately, even your expression at the ti said you couldn’t lose this longevity lock." He said.
Mabel Quinn lowered her gaze, took the longevity lock out of her pocket, and gently stroked it with her fingers, "This was sothing my father requested from the Quinn Family’s main family for . This type of longevity lock is only for the main family’s children. Children like from a branch family aren’t supposed to have it. But Father, strangely enough, insisted on requesting it. Finally, it was Granny Taylor who opened her mouth, and I was given one."
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