Chapter 473

Having been made to feel slighted by Byron’s inappropriate advances, Nydia didn’t dare to confide in her father or her elder brother. With a flushed face holding back tears, she hurriedly left the bustling banquet hall,

As she moved through the crowd, she was bumped by a waiter.

Suddenly, she felt a sting on her arm, like the prick of a bee, but the pain quickly faded.

“Oh, I’m terribly sorry, Miss,” the waiter quickly apologized.

“It’s okay.”

Nydia didn’t think much of the incident and quickly walked away.

The waiter watched her leaving, with a smirk on his face.

The evening breeze gently ruffled Nydia’s soft hair, as she stood alone on a deserted balcony, gazing at the chilling moonlight and quietly wiping away her tears.

If only Jason were here, he wouldn’t have let her suffer the slightest grievance or injustice.

But she had made up her mind to endearingly let go; from now on, Jason would no longer be a part of her life.

So, should she make one last call to him, to say everything that needed to be said, to bring closure to it all?

After much contemplation, Nydia, enduring the acute pain in her heart, tremblingly turned on her phone.

The signal connected. And in an instant, countless missed call alerts and messages flooded her screen.

Jason had never stopped trying to reach her. His every word was filled with deep emotion.

Nydia clutched at the stifling ache in her chest, where her heart seemed to be broken into pieces. She bit her lips bitten until they bled, unable to stop the steady stream of tears.

“Jason. I don’t want to be apart from you.”

Suddenly, her tear–blurred vision darkened, and her body swayed dangerously, and she began to falter.

“Nydia, what’s wrong?”

A voice of concern reached her. Nydia’s mind was muddled, and buzzing noises filled her ears.

The next moment, she was harshly pulled by someone into a tight embrace.

She could even feel the intrusive hand caressing her shoulder inappropriately.

“Who are you, Don’t touch me!”

Nydia’s body shivered, and although she tried to struggle, she found herself without the strength to do so, her eyes filling with tears of panic

“Heh, don’t be nervous, relax,” the man said with a sinister laugh, his lips brushing against the cheek he’d long coveted. “I’ll take good care of you.”

Meanwhile, Cassius acted as President K, playing the role of negotiator amongst the privileged elites.

While he was still mingling with the guests, a bodyguard who had been following Ms. Nydia came running over, sweating profusely, and pulled Cassius aside.

“Bad news, President Ashbourne. Ms. Nydia is missing!”

Cassius felt his heart tightened with worry, his handsome face darkened. “How could that be? With such high security here, and you tailing her every move, how could my sister just disappear?”

“She was within our sight at first. Nydia was sitting there talking to Byron.”

Byron?

sudden ominous feeling, and his eyebrows

sweat, said incoherently. “But then a crowd passed by from

blazed with fury, his noble

was so weak in the knees that he almost knelt, “President Ashbourne, we’ll

rage. “Search in the shadows, and don’t alert Chairman Emeric just yet–no need to worry him.

bel

The A

scattered, combing through the castle in a sweeping search.

was in no mood for pleasantries and promptly set out

the eldest brother, he felt

fiery temper, she might well turn William and his son’s

be

the hallways. Cassius, his face beaded with sweat, he dialed Nydia’s number while

rang but was

when he faintly

the

the ground, the screen displaying the

are you? Nydial”

shouted from the balcony, but there was no reply.

can Nydia disappear

is under tight security, and we have records of all guests. How can Nydia just vanish? I don’t buy it! She

within him, his tears mingling with blood from his wounded

all my fault, I was too careless! Cassius exclaimed, punching his fists against the railing in self–reproach.

be alright. No one would dare harm the daughter of Chairman Emeric while he’s in attendance, not unless they’re tired of living” Thaddeus said, grasping Evadne’s trembling shoulders, his thin lips set

Cassius’s avas

with anger, “I’ll send someone to get

waste, the more danger

beads of sweat on her forehead. “Big Brother, get me a high–performance computer. I’ll hack into the system myself! Forget about

Jason had been too tense to

young lady was a first–class hacker, her skills trained by the legendary agent Elvis; she

a surge of intense admiration in

nothing

should have been used to it by

bring the best–performing laptop available on the

delicate fingers dancing

hunched over right behind her, with their eyes glued to her moves as if watching the final

that might as well have been hieroglyphs to the untrained eye. A flurry of green code flashed across the screen. While it seemed like a blur to the onlooker, she effortlessly decoded and bypassed

in military academy, Thaddeus had aced every course, and he knew something about hacking too, but next to

screen flickered and switched to a live

they saw next stunned them-

man. And that man, who had been

eyes

was truly eerie was Nydia’s attitude toward

eyes and ringing

her arms around the man’s waist,

Voices!

relationship was oozing with oddly intimacy.

her breath, a shiver coursing

it really true, Nydia

head shaking in denial. “That can’t be

of person Nydia is. There’s got to be something fishy

headed to the top–floor guest area. After turning

to stop him now! Cassius was usually calm and composed, but now he

like his world was crumbling, overwhelmed by a torrent of emotions in just a few seconds.

beloved, he’d make him pay. If he couldn’t kill him, he’d

prepared for the worst

he wouldn’t love her any less.

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