“Did I do something? I don’t seem to have done anything, do I?” Carson raised an eyebrow and looked at Leila as if trying to disassociate himself from that. “Who are you to arrest me?”
“You-”
“Good girl! I didn’t do anything. Don’t just accuse the good guys!” Carson walked over, patted Leila’s cheek, and spoke with a smile.
Leila smacked his hand down.
Pippa looked away with fierce eyes. “He just touched your cheek, and you couldn’t stand it. If he raped you, how would you have felt? Now you should know how much I hate you!”
Leila was stunned for a moment.
Carson was in no hurry. He ignored Pippa, turned to Leila, and spoke slowly. “That, I forgot to tell you, now your man, Vincent, already thinks you’re dead!”
“No way!” Leila exclaimed.
Carson blinked his little eyes in a creepy light! “Your clothes have been changed. Leila, I changed your clothes and dropped a headless female corpse with the same figure as yours in the sea. Now, she should have almost surfaced!”
“Ah…”
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On the beach, everyone was busy in a mess.
“How come I can’t find her?” Vincent had been swimming in the sea for three hours. There was simply no one here.
Arthur naturally joined him and accompanied him in his search. At the same time, he was worried about Macey’s injury. They still did not know that Macey had died. There was no more Macey in this world.
The Maritime Rescue Department also sent a yacht. And Vincent brought in hundreds of people to help find Leila!
The entire beach was filled with people in groups of three or five. They were all just searching for Leila.
“President, maybe she’s been rescued!” A department manager ran up to speak.
With a serious look on his face, Vincent wiped the water from his face, then spoke with restrained anger, “Maybe. Increase the search area immediately!”
He hoped that Leila was rescued, not captured. Vincent didn’t have to guess the strength of the people behind this, as the fact that they were able to avoid the surveillance facilities on the beach meant that they were familiar with this part of the beach. They were definitely not ordinary thugs.
Arthur got information from the police, “All six cars were modified. They were simply stolen. The cars were related to nobody, and the engine numbers were changed without records. And they also changed the colors of the cars. We don’t know where those people went, and we didn’t catch a single one! They simply came prepared. Vincent, Leila should have been caught by now. Leave these people here to continue the search. We still have to go elsewhere! I remember when we were cornered on the cliff above, the thugs said all they had to do was leave Leila behind! They only wanted Leila!”
“It’s really her. It’s really Pippa!” He couldn’t help but think the worst. Vincent froze in horror as his expression changed dramatically. His stony face flashed with ruthlessness. Suppressing his tense emotions, he spoke in a low, slow voice, “If Pippa had done it, she would have called. Her purpose is only to make me compromise, or to make me …”
He didn’t dare to think about it anymore. If Pippa meant for Leila to die! Then…
“Wait!” Vincent looked cold and quickly picked up the phone. The phone was still dripping with water. Fortunately, it was waterproof, “Damn Miyamoto! Answer the phone!”
Vincent was calling Miyamoto. He just felt the blood in his body had frozen. His already tense emotions were almost about to explode at the moment, and his cold and gloomy features were tightly tangled, leaving only a pair of obscure and gloomy eyes. It seemed he saw Pippa’s crazy face again.
“What the hell is Pippa up to?” Arthur frowned as he watched Vincent calling. “But can she do that? It’s clear that there is someone else. She couldn’t have done it by herself as she ran out alone! There’s no way she could have assembled that many people in a short time!”
“If Pippa dares to hurt Leila, she should know the consequences are definitely not as simple as going to jail! No matter who it is, this time, I will not let him go! If the police don’t care, I’ll use the power of the underworld!” Vincent struggled to suppress his anger as his grim voice sounded. His tone sounded calm, but it made people feel creepily cold and oppressive.
He looked cold and stern, like the god of death from hell. He was no longer as calm as usual, and his cold and darkness that he used to suppress showed up, making him look gloomy as a black hole in the universe and cold as if he wanted to tear everything apart.
The call finally came through, and Miyamoto answered the phone. “Hello!”
“Have you found Renee yet? Have you found Pippa yet?”
“There’s a whereabouts. I’m on my way to rescue her!”
“Leila’s missing and Macey’s been seriously injured. Where are you?”
“Sea Horizon Resort! I know what’s going on your side. Macey is dead!” Miyamoto’s voice was weary. He had been looking for Pippa for a long time, and finally, he had found a little trace. And he learned about what happened to Macey while he was investigating. Now he was rushing to find Renee.
“Macey’s dead?” Vincent staggered as his mind buzzed.
“Yes! I just got the news! Pippa’s cell phone is not even getting a signal. It seems to be blocked. I’m investigating her whereabouts. I’ll contact you when I find her!” Miyamoto whispered.
“If Pippa did all this, I would kill her!” Vincent looked gloomy and appalling. A cold light flashed in his dark eyes, which were like deep pools. His extreme anger was very obvious.
Arthur was also confused. He mumbled and repeated, “Macey is dead? She’s dead! She’s dead…”
He almost planted himself on the beach and flopped down on his knees. His black figure was like a demon before its rage, and an icy compelling chill came from it. “I will kill that murderer with my own hands!”
If she hadn’t protected him, if he had been a little faster, maybe all three of them would have jumped! But…
Vincent was also stunned by this news. He couldn’t say what he felt in his heart. Heartache! It really hurt! After all, Macey was his lover. After all, she was Leila’s sister!
He was sad too! So sad.
“I’m going to look for Leila elsewhere. Macey is dead, and nothing more should happen to Leila!” Arthur stood up violently, took a deep breath, and said in an icy voice. Then with a stern flap of his black sleeves, he turned and left.
“Gather up!” Vincent’s eyes were cold, and he spoke in a cold voice, “Credit agencies, police stations, everyone. I want to search for Leila’s whereabouts regardless of the cost!”
“Yes!” The secretaries and managers all followed and went to contact people as Vincent had instructed.
With a thud, he slammed his fist into the company car. Arthur’s chest choked with pain!
Macey had died to save him! What was he going to tell Charles? How could he explain to Leila?
How nice it would be if he were the one who died! He was a lonely man, and there was no point for him to live in this world without a lover. Why wasn’t he the one who died?
Why would such a thing happen?
Arthur closed his eyes in pain and slammed his fist hard on the car again. After a moment of silence, he picked up the phone and dialed tremblingly, then said in a hoarse voice, “Charles, I’m sorry!”
After saying these few short words, the phone in Arthur’s hand fell to the ground. He looked up to the sky with a long sigh of grief, “How could this happen? How could this happen?”
“Mr. Lane!” Someone was worried and tried to comfort him.
But Clara had already pulled the man back. It was the first time she had seen Arthur like this, and she had always remembered him as strong, humorous, playful, and funny!
“I’m the one who got Macey killed. I’m the one who got her killed!” Arthur’s eyes abruptly burst into flame.
“It had to be Pippa!” Vincent went crazy too!
“It’s not good. It’s not good!” Someone suddenly shouted.
Vincent and Arthur, who were in pain, turned around abruptly and saw the speedboat stopped at the shore. And the police on the speedboat were wearing waterproof gloves on their hands.
“What’s going on?”
“Pre, president, we found the body of a headless female!”
“No! It can’t be!” Vincent shook his head violently. His face was hideously appalling at the moment. He walked over quickly, while his large hand instantly clenched into a fist and his five fingers tightened firmly. He questioned with a grim and appalled face, “That’s not Leila, no!”
Underneath the eerie coldness, there was a lurid gloom and doom. Vincent strode toward the speedboat. His pace was disorganized, and his red eyes had tears shining in them. She would not die. It couldn’t be Leila!
The body bag was carried off the speedboat.
The moment the coroner unzipped the bag with gloves on, Vincent saw familiar clothes. They were the clothes he had helped Leila pick out in the morning!
“No…” Vincent raised his head, closed his eyes in pain, and let the tears roll down his cheeks. He couldn’t take it and fell to his knees.
His long, slender fingers clenched tightly, then he howled in suppressed grief, “No, it can’t be!”
Arthur was also frozen. When he saw the familiar clothes, he was frozen! The light of hatred quickly and gradually gathered in his grief-stricken features, and his dull voice was soaked with broken despair, “Vincent, is this Leila? How can it be?! I don’t believe it! I don’t believe it!”
Everyone gathered towards the shore. They were all sad to see their president like this.
“Mr. White, maybe it’s not your wife. We’re taking it back now for a DNA match, and we won’t know for sure until the results come back!”
“No, it won’t!” Vincent suddenly stood up and walked towards the body. He was just stunned by the clothes at first. But he didn’t believe it. He didn’t believe for a second that Leila was just gone!
He held back his mourning and walked over to the police and the coroner, saying in a deep voice, “I want to examine the body myself!”
“Mr. White?” the police officer froze.
“I want to examine it!” Vincent spoke word by word. He wanted to check it himself to be sure.
“All right, Mr. White, gloves!” The policeman spoke slowly and handed over the gloves.
He put on the gloves. At this time, Vincent’s cold face was expressionless, and his pair of sorrowful gazes showed strong grief and the heart-consuming pain under the grief.
Vincent put on gloves, squatted down, and lifted the corpse that was a little swollen because it was soaked in water. It had just been three hours, and it shouldn’t be like this, right? Leila’s body had the hickeys he left last night. There were hickeys on her belly and chest. But on this body, there was nothing!
Vincent first looked at the belly, and there was nothing, and then he lifted the shirt upward, and he still found nothing. He sighed in relief and suddenly stumbled and sat on the floor.
“Vincent?”
“No! It’s not Leila! It’s not Leila!” Vincent quickly took off his gloves.
“Really? Really?” Everyone was dumbfounded and then acted as if there was hope.
“I’m sure it’s not Leila!” Vincent calmed down. As long as it wasn’t Leila, there was still hope, “You guys split up and look for her immediately. Now! Race against time!”