Twenty minutes ago.

The Larson Group executives were in a conference with another high-profile company.

Sebastian’s phone had been vibrating for quite a while, but he chose to ignore it the first couple of times.

When the phone buzzed again and he finally glanced at the caller ID, his frown relaxed.

He raised a hand to signal a halt to the meeting.

“I’m sorry, but I need to take this call,”

he said, proceeding to answer his phone without waiting for the other men’s response.

As Sebastian listened to Natalie’s words, his face slowly darkened.

His body grew tense, and a heavy pressure was palpable in the air.

Garrett turned to Sebastian and noted how tight his grip was on his phone, as well as the slight tremor of his hand.

“What happened?” Garrett asked as soon as Sebastian hung up.

But the latter barely acknowledged him.

“Sorry, this meeting will have to be postponed,” Sebastian announced.

He stood up and walked out of the room.

The men looked at each other, dumbfounded, but none of them dared to raise a question.

Garrett hurried after Sebastian and asked him again, “What’s wrong?”

Sebastian closed his eyes and took a deep breath.

“Send out all our helicopters to look for a maple forest in the periphery of the city.”

Garrett needed no further explanation.He nodded and rushed to do as he had been ordered.He knew that something had happened to Sebastian’s wife.

Moments later, five helicopters hovered over the city, scouring for a particular patch of woods.

Sebastian was on one of the machines, siting with back ramrod straight and his eyes straight ahead.

He was barely keeping his anger in check.

radio crackled, and Garrett’s voice came through the noise of

found it. There’s a maple forest just outside the main highway into the city.l’m sending

under his breath and instructed

a turn, and then

long time, Natalie now had no strength at all,

and thought she heard the distant

gonna fuck your brains out,” the

belt, took it off, and used it to tie Natalie’s

he could tighten the binding, however, someone pulled him by the shoulder and sent him

disoriented, the man had to blink a few times

surrounded by

commanded, his voice cold

against the light streaming through the trees,

as he cowered and tried

him, but one of the men

after, a howl of agony rang out in the

over to

crouched beside her and untied her hands before carefully wrapping her in his suit

she instinctively panicked at his sudden proximity.She flailed

If

sheer desperation in her voice made his heart

her hands and tried to

comforting, his face

were knitted, his lips tight, and a

carefully carried Natalie into the

he laid her down on the backseat gently, the cool breeze of early autumn blew on her

who I am?” he

such a

ran his fingers through Natalie’s messy

two obvious palm marks on Natalie’s face, and there was a

ached so much that he didn’t

arms, he gently

okay now.I’m here. You’re safe.Don’t

striped suit and looked up at him, tears rolling down

then did she return to

arms and sobbed, “Oh, Sebastian, it’s really

“Yes, Natalie.It’s me.”

he put on her and put his arm

press his forehead against hers, He kissed

“Does it still hurt?”

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