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.

voice came through the noise of the propellers in full

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

and

to make a turn, and then it was speeding toward the southeast

long time, Natalie now had no

and thought she heard the

out,” the driver said with

his belt, took it off, and used it to

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

and disoriented, the man had to blink a

surrounded by a

Sebastian commanded, his voice cold as

the trees, so the driver only

demanded as he cowered and tried to crawl

of the

agony rang out

strode over to a barely

beside her and untied her hands before carefully wrapping her in his suit jacket.He gathered her close in his arms and whispered, “Don’t

still glazed, and she instinctively panicked

bastard! If you

sheer desperation in her voice made his

grabbed both of her hands

and comforting, his

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

Natalie into

laid her down on the backseat gently, the cool breeze of

who I am?”

in such a

fingers through

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

much that he didn’t

in his arms,

now.I’m here. You’re

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

she return to

Sebastian’s arms and

“Yes, Natalie.It’s me.”

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

able to press his

“Does it still hurt?”

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