Chapter 182
Just as she sent the message, Marcus’s call came through. Cornelia hurriedly answered, President Hartley”
Where are you?” Marcus’s voice carried a hint of resignation
Cornelia checked her GPS, “I be home in two or three kilometers”
“Alright, hang up when you get home. Then his voice disappeared from the earpiece
If it werent for the call duration ticking away on her phone screen, she would have thought he had hung up.
The 3–kilometer journey didn’t take long. The taxi driver stopped the car across the street from the northern gate of her neighborhood, “Miss, they’re doing roadwork ahead I can’t turn the car around. You’ll have to go by yourself”
kindly helped her with
With its lush vegetation and scarce traffic at night, it always gave
by, forcing her to retreat to the curb, She decided to wait for the
halt before her. Two men wearing baseball caps and masks jumped out and forcefully dragged her into the
the words out before a calloused hand covered her mouth, and her phone clattered
phone, but
van, the hand covering Cornelia’s mouth was removed and replaced with
speak, observed with her eyes, three men in the van, one driving, two holding
had never crossed any thugs, so
could it be?
Courtney Kamp–Hartley?
dismissed this possibility. Marcus himself had said that Courtney
could it
off during her time in
bold enough to go
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