Once a Doormat, Now Untouchable

Chapter 597

At first listen, Julian's words sounded calm. Yet only Elliot, who. had followed him for so many years, could hear how wrong they felt. When had Julian ever spoken with such uncertainty? In Elliot's eyes, Julian had always been decisive and razor sharp, aman who never hesitated, A heavy weight settled in Elliot's chest, and for a moment, he could not find the words to speak. He wanted to say that Sydney had been clever since childhood, that she had survived safely even under Eloise's watch. This time would be no different. She would escape again.

But he did not even know where she was. Her phone remained powered off. Something had already gone terribly wrong, In the driver's seat, Peter gripped the steering wheel until his knuckles whitened. His foot pressed the accelerator nearly to the floor as the car tore through traffic.

Every second they saved increased the chance of Sydney returning safely. When they reached the Hampton estate, a maid opened the gate. The moment she saw Julian's terrifyingly cold expression, she flinched. "Mr. Sterling, are you here to-" Julian's dark eyes swept across the courtyard.

"Is Caleb here?"

"He is." Julian's gaze sharpened.

did he come back?"

least half an hour

see Mr. Hampton, | need

reception hall and hurried toward the stairs. Julian did not stop her. Before she could go far, Dorothy appeared at the top of the staircase and began to descend. The ease with which Caleb had obtained

the Hampton family's rise in Jouleston owed to this

no effort to soften his expression. The murderous chill in

to see

No matter how despicable Caleb was, he would not harm her. Dorothy sensed the danger at once. "Did something happen

answered without delay, "She was picked up by Mr. Hampton's Maybach. We have

brows drew together. "That's impossible." The instant the words left her

now,