The Kiss that Sparked it All

Chapter 2362

Time had become a hazy concept as they finally reached their destination. Balfour and Victoria found themselves thrown into a room.

The kidnappers, having delivered their captives, seemed to forget about them as quickly as they had appeared, leaving them bound and confined.

Balfour was not one to resign to fate.

When the surrounding silence assured him of their captors’ absence, he began to cautiously wriggle against his restraints, but the ropes binding his wrists and ankles were wound tight.

The more he struggled, the more the coarse fibers of the ropes bit into his skin, refusing to give way.

Meanwhile, Victoria, feeling the weight of their grim situation, had begun to sob quietly in the darkness.

Victoria could hear him over her whimpering, but at the

of the door sent a jolt through them, and Balfour instantly ceased all movement, tilting his head toward the sliver of light that

urgency. “They’re loaded. We tell ’em to cough up a cool million, and we can

having to worry about their next meal again brought them

cops, we’ll just cut our losses. Worst case, we spend the rest of

ready to risk

her teeth chattering audibly-a sound that

there was only one boy.” one of them said, eyeing

She was with the boy, so I had them both brought in. If it

and Balfour was acutely aware that if they found out Victoria wasn’t worth anything

the tape from their mouths with such force that it