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.

 

felt as worthless as he was at

yet?” Mrs. Wilson’s jaw dropped

so they didn’t sleep and stayed up all night, waiting for them to

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

still hadn’t been

his hands tightly together. “Daddy, why hasn’t Mommy been saved? Did something

Connor when Sean threatened to jump off the

Connor didn’t know what

to tell the kids about it

was worried that the children would be traumatized to learn that Natalie had plunged from the

lowered his gaze to mask the struggling emotions in his eyes and tried to make himself sound collected. “Connor, you try to locate Mommy’s

kidnapper run away with Mommy again?”

across Shane’s

away.” With that, Connor returned the phone to Mrs. Wilson and ran

come up hurriedly and almost bumped into her. A flash of

around her eyes had just been removed, and she

little boy knocked her down again, it would

could think about was his mommy’s safety.

he wasn’t aware

study while Sharon burst into tears in

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