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.

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

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

and instructed

sever seconds to make a turn, and then it was speeding toward

then running for a long time,

sky in despair, and thought

your brains out,” the driver said with an

his belt, took it off, and

him by

and disoriented, the man had to blink a few times

his vision finally cleared, he found himself surrounded by a group of people wearing all

off,” Sebastian commanded, his voice cold as

light streaming through the trees, so the driver only caught

are you people?” the driver demanded as he cowered and tried to crawl

one of the men in black stepped forward, brandishing a

a howl of agony rang out in the

to a

her hands before carefully wrapping her in his suit jacket.He gathered

and she instinctively panicked at his sudden proximity.She flailed in his

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

her voice made his

grabbed both of her hands

voice was calm and comforting, his face

knitted, his lips tight, and a deadly storm was brewing

carried Natalie into the

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

know who I

a

ran his fingers through Natalie’s messy

and there was a streak of blood at the corner

so much that he

arms,

here. You’re

suit and looked up at

she return to

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

“Yes, Natalie.It’s me.”

very patient.He gently fixed the suit jacket he put

press his forehead against hers,

“Does it still hurt?”

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