Winner Takes All novel Chapter 208

At least Amber did not notice his strange expression. Jack felt guilty and remorseful. But his memory of what happened last night was hazy. He wasn’t sure if he did anything with Ciara.

He thought about asking Ciara but … how was he to ask about it? He took a deep breath to suppress his feelings and Jack’s expression cooled down considerably.

Vaughn family!

His odd behavior last night was because he was drugged. If it was the assassins who drugged him, why would they use an aphrodisiac? It was obvious that the Vaughns were responsible for it.

“The actions of the Vaughn family were despicable. It was pure luck that I survived.” Jack thought.

His limbs became weak when the drugs started to take effect. Had it not been for Brent and Lone Wolf who risked it all to protect him and Ciara who dragged him out at the critical moment, he was certain he would be dead.

With his fighting abilities, he would not be stabbed If it wasn’t for the Vaughn family’s drug.

“What are you thinking about?” Amber noticed that Jack was fuming and became concerned.

Jack shook his head and asked, “Where is Mr. Ward?”

“He went to investigate what happened last night.” Amber paused and then added, “Rest well and recuperate. We did not tell your mother. Brent and Lone Wolf are fine and resting in the room next door. Mr. Ward and the others will investigate the assassination attempt.

Jack heaved a sigh of relief when he found out that Brent and Lone were alright.

At this moment, the door to the room opened and Mr. Ward walked in. He was relieved to see that Jack was awake.

“Mr. Ward, have you found out anything?” Jack asked.

Mr. Ward shook his head helplessly, “It’s tough. Not only is Aiden struggling with it, but even the Hughes family intelligence network also drew a blank.”

This was a serious incident and he certainly couldn’t depend on Aiden to investigate. Mr. Ward had already reported to Patrick as soon as the incident happened. The Hughes intelligence network had been working feverishly on this since last night.

“Even the Hughes family can’t find anything?” Jack clicked his tongue in surprise.

The Hughes family’s wealth, assets, and status were immense. As a result, the prowess of its intelligence network was beyond the comprehension of regular people.

“Those ten-plus assassins were on a suicide mission. Brent and Lone Wolf had killed more than half of them and the remaining ones who were captured swallowed a capsule hidden in their teeth to kill themselves. As a result, none of them could be interrogated to provide any clues.”

Mr. Ward frowned and said, “Not only that, all the assassins had no background as if they never existed.”

“No news from the underground world?” Jack frowned tightly.

Mr. Ward nodded, “None.”

It was silent in the room.

A few seconds later, Jack suddenly laughed, “There aren’t many families who can do this so cleanly.”

Jack raise his eyebrows and looked at Mr. Ward, “Mr. Ward, do you think it’s the Burton family, or… Hughes family?”

When the words ‘Hughes family’ was mentioned, Mr. Ward’s eyes lit up, and said, “Master is referring to… an inside job?”

Mr. Ward was shocked to his senses. The Hughes intelligence network, Aiden, Vaughn, and Wattson families did not even consider this possibility.

Jack nodded, “A lot of families have the ability to cover up and clean up but they would not provoke me without any good reasons. Furthermore, this was done so brazenly!”

Mr. Ward frowned and pondered deeply. The ones with a grudge and dared to do it would either be the Burton family or Hughes family!

“I’ll report this to your father.” Mr. Ward turned to leave the room.