Shane sat back on his sleeping bag, closed his eyes, and only opened them again after a long while.

As he reopened his eyes, there were no more rage and fury within them. He was composed, but it was so composed that it began to feel eerie.

“Give me the satellite phone.” Shane reached out his hand.

Silas handed it to him immediately.

Shane made a call to the villa.

It was Mrs. Wilson who answered the phone, “Hello, Mr. Shane, it’s so late already; why haven’t you come back? Have you found madam?”

Mrs. Wilson knew that Natalie had been kidnapped, too.

It was Joyce who relayed the news to her when she went to the police station to pick up the children.

“No.” Shane tightened his grip on the phone. There were tinges of weariness, hoarseness, and self-accusation in his voice.

He was beating himself for not being able to save her.

 

And it was him who promised that he would not let it happen a second time when she was kidnapped back then.

In spite of that, he failed to keep his promise. Not only did she experience it for a second time, but she even fell off the cliff the next day she was kidnapped.

 

as

hasn’t been rescued yet?” Mrs. Wilson’s jaw dropped in

worried about Natalie, so they didn’t sleep and

Shane called home, the children naturally huddled over to Mrs. Wilson, hoping to catch a

Mrs. Wilson was Natalie still hadn’t been

tightly together. “Daddy, why

call with Connor when Sean threatened to jump

didn’t know what

didn’t plan to

traumatized to learn

struggling emotions in his eyes and tried to make

kidnapper run away with Mommy again?”

across

it right away.” With that, Connor returned the phone to

come up hurriedly and almost bumped into her.

around her eyes had just been removed,

boy knocked her down again,

his mommy’s safety. Thus, he totally didn’t

aware of Jacqueline’s existence at

burst into tears in the living room, whereas Mrs. Wilson was busy comforting Sharon,

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