In Love, Never Say Never

In love, never say never chapter 661

He looked at me with surprise, and he nodded.

Instead of the rubber plantation, the driver went to the forest behind the villa. I could hear the fighting and the sounds of thunder coming from the villa. It’s about to rain.

The path was winding, and my head started spinning along the way. My stomach churned, and I retched a couple of times. The sounds of fighting still roared on behind us. Abe and his men were showing no signs of stopping. We were taken into the forest and eventually arriving at a clearing.

It was a heliport, and a helicopter was waiting for us there, much to my surprise. The car stopped, and the driver said, “Get out.” Then he leaped out of the car and dragged me out roughly before I realized what had happened.

Nora and the girls were in the cars before mine, and they were taken out too. “Get in here ASAP!” the man at the cockpit roared at us, and I looked in the villa’s direction by reflex, but all I could see was smoke billowing in the air.

Nora and the girls were taken to the helicopter. I thought something was off, but I couldn’t put a finger on it. I went in with them and noticed Nora was still deathly pale. Then I went up to her. “How do you feel, Nora?”

She opened her eyes weakly and looked at me. Nora opened her mouth and attempted to speak, but because of her throat, speaking was impossible for a while.

The man beside us said, “Take your seats and don’t move. We’re taking off now.”

“Where’s Armond?” I looked back at him curiously.

The man paused. “He’ll be rendezvousing with us in Epea. We have to go right now, or nobody’s leaving.”

I nodded and went to my seat. Nora was still a concern, but the most important thing was to leave right away, and the helicopter took off.

Halfway through, Nora clutched her stomach, and her face contorted in pain, and she kept sweating. I was getting worried for her, and I was going to help her, but someone stopped me. “We’ll handle this, Ms. Stovall. Please sit down and don’t hinder them.”

The staff took Nora into the cockpit, and I couldn’t do anything but watch. We landed on an airport after a few hours. I had no idea where we were because of the long hours of flight.

“Change of chopper. Chop, chop, people. Tempus fugit.” We went to board one of the planes without even going through a security check.

Alright, that was weird. Did Armond plan all this? I reflexively looked back at Tabitha and the girls, who were taken into the plane. They hadn’t been talking over the past few days, and the escape had exhausted them.

They were deathly pale, and I knew they would have fallen if it weren’t for the people around them. I noticed that they were clutching their stomachs, and I frowned. Something’s off. But I didn’t take the chance to ask, since we were urged to board the flight.

Nora felt better once we boarded, so she was let back into the passenger cabin, and there were other strangers with us too. I scanned the place and thought something was definitely wrong, but I couldn’t put a finger on it. No point thinking about it then. I buckled myself and waited for the flight to take off.

It took more than half a day to fly from Aploth to Western Europe, and I was still confused even after we landed. We settled some paperwork in the airport, and then we were taken to a villa.

Everyone was exhausted from the long journey, and Nora and the girls had fallen asleep. I tried to stay awake on pure will alone, and I tried to call Ashton, but someone stopped me.

The man who took us to the villa was a burly one, and he never seemed to smile. He had this perpetually cold look on him. When he stopped me, he said, “You need to rest, miss.”

I tried to negotiate, “I want to call my family, sir.”

He threw me a cold look and answered stiffly, “You are forbidden from contacting anyone without Mr. Murphy’s permission.” He gazed at me, trying to force me back into the room.

It’d be bad to face it head on if Armond was making the orders, so I nodded and went into the room. I was exhausted and wanted nothing more than to sleep after the long journey, but the jetlag was stopping me from getting any rest.

I had the feeling something was off the moment Armond said he wanted to bring me to Western Europe, but I couldn’t figure it out.

I finally drifted to sleep at midnight, but then someone knocked on the door early next morning, waking me up.

I opened the door only to see Tessa before me, looking deathly pale. Since they spent all their time in the glass room, it took a great toll on their bodies. I never talked to them either, since they never said anything.

I was surprised to see her, and she came into my room and locked the door. Tessa was glowering at me. She said nothing, but I could feel her enmity toward me.

In love, never say never chapter 662

Confused, I asked, “What’s wrong, Tessa?”

She sneered at me for a while and pulled her clothes up, revealing her bandaged torso, much to my shock. “When did this happen? Who hurt you?” Who was I kidding? Of course I knew who hurt them. Her wound was on the belly, after all, but still, the fact made me shudder.

I saw the rows of operating theatres in Abe’s villa, and I saw how they stuffed women’s stomachs with kyanine. The scar on Tessa’s torso told me that Abe’s men had stuffed kyanine in them.

And then I was reminded of how deathly pale they were over the past few days. And they’d clutch their stomach, holding in their pain. This isn’t the glass room’s side effect. Their body’s rejecting the kyanine. It’s an alien object. No wonder they’re looking like this.

I asked, “Are the other girls like this too?” I felt a lump in my throat.

Tessa looked at me, her lips pursed, her eyes filled with hatred. She didn’t answer my question, and I thought she hated me. I couldn’t say anything else, so I stared back into her eyes. Anything I had to say would sound like hindsight, and that would make her hate me more.

All I could do was meet up with Armond as soon as possible so I could ask him to get someone to extract the kyanine from their bodies.

to take that thing out of you guys.” Then I went out. The lobby was guarded by the

said, “Please go back

to

shortly.

then?” I knew he’d come sooner or later, but I needed someone to take the kyanine

Murphy is here. Please do not get

him. “Mr. Murphy, my friends got kyanine

hard, and anyone would get suspicious if they found kyanine in the girls’ bodies. It’d be bad if they looked into

nodded and called a doctor, then he looked at me. “We don’t have an operating theatre here, and I can’t take them to a proper hospital,

knew that much, and I nodded. “I

and I followed them, but Armond stopped me. “Stay here. It won’t be easy to get away from Abe

were going to send

him off, then I realized his suit was darker around his waist. That’s

and looked at

yourself, I mean.” He didn’t show his wound after

at me and went

went up to his bedroom and knocked on his door. He opened the door a few minutes later, though he had

was too pale to be okay. “What is

his bedroom and noticed the bandage and the haemostatic drug on his table. I turned back, and he coughed. “Just a small injury. Just need

pursed my lips. “I’ll help you.” I dragged him to the sofa before he could refuse,

frowned at him. “I need to tend to your

on his waist, and blood was still oozing out. My frown turned deeper. This guy has a high level of tolerance toward pain.

never say

looked closer, I realized he was stabbed by a stake, and I frowned again. “How did this

into something during the fight,” he said nonchalantly. “Nothing to be worried about. It missed

millimetres from his kidney. He had a lot of wounds, but they were

there was no anaesthetic for him, he felt all the pain from the cleaning up. Lodophor wasn’t as painful as alcohol, but the cotton swab was still going to

He didn’t even flinch, so I

smiled at

His wound was finger deep. I knew he must be in pain, since he was just human after all. I sighed. “You don’t have to lie.

spreading it on his wound. Even so, the wound wouldn’t stop bleeding. I had to do

Luckily, the wound didn’t seem to cause any more complications. After I bandaged it, I felt

be infected as long as you stay clear of water.” I looked

his hand back from my

was stupefied, then I nodded when I noticed him smiling at me. “I do. Are you

and arched his eyebrow. “I was in a hurry, so I didn’t

helped him to the bed, and I was confused about why he kept staring at me. “Are you allergic to anything? Is there anything

and went downstairs. There was a lot of food in the kitchen, but they were mostly bread, jam, and some beef. Western Europe

wasn’t anything in the fridge for that. There was only flour

two kilometre distance

was a kid. She’d boil the water and toss the vegetables in, then she’d stir it for about ten minutes, and a serving of chowder was done. It was

back to his room, since his

stir, so I hesitated for a while before setting the chowder down beside him and covered him with the blanket. Out of a

“Did I wake you?”

the first

don’t have much here. All I

wound, and he gasped. I held him by reflex, but I moved too fast and fell down on him.

again, but he was staring at me silently. I thought he was angry about earlier, so I mumbled, “I’m sorry. I didn’t mean it.

He laughed. “I know.”

I helped him up and handed

he looked at me. “Aren’t I a

“Yes.” The wound was big enough to warrant him a ward in

then I

that, and I looked at him sternly. “I thought you’re too uptight to crack jokes

say

took the bowl of chowder from me, then he sipped from it. He nodded, probably thinking it was fine. “Do you cook

how he managed to shift the topics that fast. I shook my head. “No. I often saw my grandma

want to break the silence, so I observed him. A short while later, he looked up at me. “Was it hard living in

stupefied. “How did you know

found that question amusing. “That’s not too hard to figure out. I told you I helped you out so I can get my hands on that sandalwood

see.” He waited for me to continue, so I said, “Not really. I didn’t starve or die out in the cold. At least

the bowl away. “Have you ever regretted at choosing

took me by surprise, and I couldn’t answer him. “There’s still some in the kitchen. Do you

head, then he stopped asking any more

my bedroom, spaced out. Have I ever regretted marrying Ashton? Nope.