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.

and Garrett’s voice came through the noise of the propellers in full

the main highway into the city.l’m sending the exact location to your

and instructed his pilot to

turn, and then it was speeding toward the

and then running for a long time, Natalie now had no strength at all, but she was

sky in despair, and thought she heard the distant rumble

I’m gonna fuck your brains out,” the driver said with an

belt, took it off, and used it

someone pulled him by the shoulder and sent him falling

had to blink a few times and collect his

he found himself surrounded by a group of people wearing all

off,” Sebastian commanded, his voice cold as

stood against the light streaming through the trees, so the driver only caught his tall,

people?” the driver demanded as he

him, but one of the men in black stepped forward, brandishing

agony rang out in the

over to a barely conscious

untied her hands before carefully wrapping her in his suit jacket.He gathered her close in his arms and

panicked at his sudden proximity.She

go of me! Somebody, help! You bastard! If you dare to touch me, I

her

hands and tried to

and comforting, his face was the complete

brows were knitted, his lips tight, and

carried Natalie into

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

who I

a state made Sebastian

ran his fingers through

on Natalie’s face, and there was a streak of blood

that he didn’t

his arms,

here. You’re

of Sebastian’s striped suit and looked up at him, tears rolling

then did she return

and

“Yes, Natalie.It’s me.”

fixed the suit jacket he put on her and put his arm around her

to press

“Does it still hurt?”

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