Villain On the video call, three burly figures appeared, their faces shrouded in hoods.
Lauren was kneeling on the ground, and her face was shoved toward the phone by one of the men.
Her face, neck, and body were covered in blood.
Moreover, her lips were cracked, and her eyes were so swollen she could hardly keep them open.
She looked utterly defeated.
In a hoarse and feeble voice, Lauren sobbed.
"Mitchel...
Help me...
Please...
Remember that time I saved you? Help me now...” Bringing up old scores was the most effective way to change one's mind.
Sure enough, Mitchel's expression shifted in an instant.
Smack! One of the hooded men slapped Lauren across the face and snarled, "Enough of your nonsense." It was clear Lauren had been suffering for a while.
The slap forced a mouthful of blood out of her, making her look even more miserable.
Mitchel's expression flipped like a switch.
With his eyes turned as cold as a glacier, he bellowed, "How dare you!” The hooded man chuckled as if he had heard a joke.
His laughter was distorted by a voice changer, which made it sound even more unsettling.
"This woman says you're her husband and that you're loaded.
Is that right?” An unsettling silence fell over both parties.
Raegan impulsively grabbed Mitchel's arm.
She was not quite sure what she was thinking, but something deep down told her he should not admit it.
Mitchel's face turned grim, and he focused on the screen.
hesitation, the hooded leader delivered a brutal
Lauren's mouth, and her face
The hooded man lifted his foot, ready
that critical moment, Mitchel
felt
Mitchel's arm, but he did not
was completely
the hooded man
dollars in cash and bring it
and carefully nicked Lauren's wrist, enough for
on the spot, but her time
hooded guy sneered and, without
Silence enveloped the car.
Raegan with a
it was because Mitchel had been so kind to
cut
not
thought it would be better
told her there was
call the police and have them sort this out,”
and shot down the idea
involve the
at stake." Those outlaws had no
assumed he could not gamble with
debt, as long
siding with Lauren, a bitter taste filled Raegan's
that this whole thing might be
he asked, "What are you getting at?” Raegan laid out her
video, Lauren's
so clean?" Unlike Mitchel, she had paid close attention to the details
of blood Lauren
the guy paying the ransom was her husband or not?" There
was orchestrating
was listening, thus using those words as
the puzzle were
the feeling that the kidnapping
she thought about it, the more she felt
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