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.

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

forest just outside the main highway into the city.l’m sending the exact

and

make a turn, and then it was speeding toward the

Meanwhile… After being slapped and then running for a long time, Natalie now had no strength at all, but she

stared up at the sky in despair, and thought she heard the distant

your brains out,” the

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

pulled him by the shoulder

to blink a few times

he found himself surrounded by a group

off,” Sebastian commanded, his

stood against the light streaming through the trees, so the driver

the driver demanded as he cowered and tried to

one of the men in black stepped forward, brandishing a

a howl of agony rang

to a barely conscious

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

instinctively panicked at his sudden

You bastard! If

sheer desperation in her voice made

her hands and tried to soothe

and comforting, his

lips tight, and a

carried Natalie

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

who I am?”

in such a

his fingers

face, and there was a

that he didn’t

shivering body in his arms, he gently tried to cornfort

now.I’m here. You’re safe.Don’t

clenched the waistcoat of Sebastian’s striped suit and looked up at him,

she return

and sobbed, “Oh, Sebastian, it’s

“Yes, Natalie.It’s me.”

gently fixed the suit jacket he put on her

lowered, he was able to press his

“Does it still hurt?”

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