Obviously Shane was aware of that. That was the reason for his grim expression.

He fixed his eyes on Natalie.

She, too, was staring straight back at him. Her body trembled slightly as despair filled her eyes. “Shane…”

All he wanted was to comfort her.

Yet, his words would be futile. Nothing he could say would serve as a consolation while she was being held at gunpoint.

Instead, he shifted his gaze to Sean. He suppressed the urge to rage at him and asked, “What the hell do you want?”

“It’s simple, really. I want to leave this place safely,” Sean smiled as his eyes met his.

Shane tightened his grip on the gun and scoffed. “In your dreams!”

“Is that so? Then I guess you leave me no other option. I’ll just have to bring your wife along to perish. What a beautiful woman she is, so I won’t be the one getting the short end of the stick,” Sean joked while his grin grew wider.

“I’ll say it again. Let go of her!”

 

“That’s impossible unless you ask your men to back off and allow me to leave with ease. Once I’m out of here, I’ll return her to you.” While he negotiated, he kept his tight grip on Natalie.

Natalie shuddered in response.

 

pursed his lips into a thin line. “You

have no choice. We’ll bite the dust together.” With that, his index

audibly hear the sound of the trigger moving.

Shane’s hands were shaking.

Natalie. He hurriedly said, “Mr. Shane, I know you don’t want to let Sean go. But there’s no other way out of this dire situation. Madam is still in his hands. Let’s release him first.

others on the helicopter

Connor was weeping.

Shane shut his eyes.

not that he wanted her

feared that Sean would not

didn’t want to

was that he had to take

her!” Shane took the first step to

position. “Order them to leave

helicopters hovering in the

looked to Silas and

mic and notified everyone to leave, save for the helicopter

other helicopters

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