Chapter 205

After the crowd was cleared out, William Brooks ordered his team to secure the director and the woman with pink hair tucked in the corner before heading straight to the lounge. Inside, Edward Hawthorne had just laid Alice Sterling on the couch and was carefully checking out the scratch on her leg. It didn’t seem like a serious wound, but the blood just kept dripping down her leg, and it was a pretty nasty sight. Jessica Lane gasped sharply. "I’ll go get a doctor." "No need. I brought my private doctor; he should be here any minute," Edward replied, pulling a few tissues out and gently cleaning up the blood around the cut. His expression was tense, lips pressed tight, not saying a word for a while. Alice was anxious inside, her thoughts bouncing between whatever Violet Jordan might be up to outside and whether they’d actually catch whoever was behind the collapsed stage. She didn’t even notice Edward’s face growing stormier by the second. After a moment, Edward gave Jessica a near-imper