“Okay, I’ll wait here!” said Lennie, “But you have to get me something good!”
“Of course!” Carson vouched for it.
After 10 minutes, his men were still nowhere to be seen. Lennie was getting impatient! “Carson, where are your men!? Callum, let’s go in and take a look!”
“Lennie! They are coming!” said Carson as he stood in front of them.
“Carson, are you hiding some treasures in the warehouse? Treasures that you cannot let us know about??” Lennie teased.
“No way!” Carson denied.
“Save me…” Suddenly, someone was yelling for help!
Callum’s ears twitched!
Carson was taken aback, he quickly said loudly, “Lennie, are you thirsty? Let’s go have some tea! We may need to wait a bit longer since those are really heavy and it may take quite some time for them!”
“Save me…” The voice was so familiar!
Callum could tell that it was Leila!
He frowned and wanted to listen to it closer, but there was no more noise.
He looked at Carson and Lennie puzzledly, “Did you guys hear someone yelling for help?”
Lennie was busy talking and didn’t hear anything, she shook her head, “How could it be? It must be something else.”
“Yeah, how could someone be yelling for help?” Carson smiled, but he had an odd expression on his face.
Callum looked at him suspiciously. He tried to listen more closely, but he really couldn’t hear anything. And then, a few people walked out with a few boxes of firework in their hands. Lennie was excited and Callum was distracted.
Lennie was very excited as she finally got the fireworks she wanted, she was so pleased, “Carson, thank you. We’ll be taking our leave!”
“Yeah, just call me if you need more. I’ll get someone to send some over, no need for you to come over since it’s far,” Carson said in a relief.
“But it’s fun getting them yourself!!”
“Alright! You can just come to get some when you want to!”
“Bye!” Lennie waved her hand and got into the car.
Callum looked around suspiciously while driving back and didn’t find anything out of the ordinary. He was a bit out of it on the way home because he thought that he heard Leila’s voice. But why didn’t Lennie and Carson hear anything? Was it really something else?
In front of the warehouse.
Carson frowned and was listening to his subordinate’s report, “Vincent seemed to realize that the body they found didn’t belong to Leila. He increased the manpower on the search team. Carson, what should we do next…”
“The cargo ship is only reaching in the night. Don’t worry, he won’t be able to find her within 7 hours! And when they get here, the ladies will already be sold to Southeast Asia for prostitution!” Carson’s face turned dark.
In the warehouse, Leila was tied to a pole!
“No use yelling for help!” Pippa scoffed, “Nobody will save you!”
Leila tried to calm down, it was only two of them now. She tried her best to calm her nerves and looked at Pippa who was walking towards her calmly.
Pippa said, “If you’re cooperative, you won’t be tied up. Look at me, I’m free to walk around!”
Leila shook her head calmly; she was really speechless. She sympathized and felt sorry for Pippa, and she didn’t even know how to be mad at her because she was just too pitiful!
Pippa smirked, and her beautiful face turned hideous from her twisted and vile expressions, “I’m waiting for that ugly guy to rape you.”
Leila sighed; she was really speechless.
How could she be so relaxed? Pippa stood afar and looked at Leila’s calm face, she felt a bit angry. She walked over and slapped Leila on the face.
Leila was shocked for a moment, her face started to burn and not long after a handprint could be seen. But she quickly remained calm and looked at Pippa’s vicious face. That soft and pretty face was now evil and wintry, she wasn’t as pretty as before anymore.
“I’m going to kill you! I’m going to be the winner; nobody can get things that I cannot!” She was the winner, only her. Pippa grimaced deeply, her eyes filled with poison and bitterness.
“Did you really win though?” retorted Leila.
“You’re really not afraid, not afraid at all!” Pippa yelled hysterically. Her eyes were bloodshot, and she glared harshly at Leila’s thin face. She wasn’t having it, no way!
“It’s not that I’m not afraid, but I know that it’s useless to be afraid. I know that Vincent will save me, he will be able to find me!”
Leila stared at the hysterical Pippa with her very calm eyes and looked away. She didn’t want to waste her breath anymore.
Pippa’s hatred towards Leila became more intense after listening to what she said. She let out a wintry sneer, her pale face which was twisted looked even eerier. Her dark eyes were filled with hate and it was nefarious.
“Yes, he will come. And I’ll kill you in front of him!” Pippa’s laughter was heinous. She remained placid as she stared at Leila’s tranquil face, “Kill you in front of him and make him regret forever.”
“That’s better, if he’s here before I die, I can warn him to not marry someone like you even after I die. He must find someone kind and nice, not some extreme crazy person like you so that he doesn’t ruin his own life,” said Leila nonchalantly. She glanced at Pippa who looked shocked, and said again, “You are destined not to be loved by anyone and will be alone forever!”
“No! I won’t be alone!!” she yelled with all her might and her body trembled from rage. But her eyes that were filled with sorrow betrayed her, she was afraid of not being loved and being alone.
“You’re that kind of person and I finally understand. I didn’t know, but now I do now!” said Leila coolly. “You fell in love with Miyamoto, but you took his love for granted. You didn’t care about him. You think that what you can’t get is the most precious!”
Pippa was taken aback; it was only precious if she couldn’t get it? Was that so?
She fell in love with the shy and humble Miyamoto at the foot of Mountain Fuji. He was tall, handsome, calm and composed. When he was by her side, he would hold off all the bad things. Wasn’t that why she fell in love with him?
Pippa was lost realizing that she fell in love with Miyamoto at first sight. She was too reluctant and was used to being chased after! That was why she lost her way!
She only realized after she gave birth, that Vincent who was younger than her became more mature. He was more amiable and composed, and she felt butterflies in her stomach when she saw him.
But then he got together with Leila. She was sad, disappointed and desolated. She started arguing with Miyamoto a lot, until one day they got a divorce. She used him as a replacement for Vincent.
After that, the White family began plotting their revenge. Vincent had to frame Leila and it gave Pippa hope. She had energy again. But then Leila was in the picture again. Pippa thought that Vincent wouldn’t fall in love with either of them! In the end, she was wrong. Vincent fell in love with Leila, the person right in front of him. Pippa’s dream was once again shattered!
In the end, she lost Miyamoto as well!
“The most pathetic thing about you is that you don’t even realize where your fault lies. You are really pitiful!” said Leila coldly as she looked at Pippa’s crumbling expression. She turned her head and looked somewhere else. She didn’t even bother to look at someone like that.
Pippa took deep breaths as her skinny body tensed up and she was trembling violently. Her surging emotions slowly calmed down and she glared wintrily at Leila who wasn’t even looking at her. Suddenly, she laughed madly, her laughter was peculiar and creepy.
“Leila, you sure have tricks up your sleeve. I wanted to shame you but you shamed me instead. But have you forgotten? Someone is going to rape you.”
“You, you’re sick in the head!” Leila’s aloof eyes turned cold, she looked at Pippa and her eyes were filled with sadness. She was sad for Pippa. “If that’s so, then even if you get incarnated, Vincent and Miyamoto won’t bat an eye at you! If there’s an afterlife, Vincent and I will live happily together!”
Pippa was startled, her heart was filled with shock and she was trembling in fear all over. She used up her might and let out a burst of evil laughter, “Hahaha… Too bad there wouldn’t be an afterlife!”
An hour had passed.
Miyamoto brought Renee over and the four of them were gathered in the hall on the first floor of Sea Horizon Resort. They were waiting for the latest news.
Vincent who was waiting impatiently, his usual wintry face was gloomy. He felt a sudden pain in his heart, he was nervous and worried.
Where could she be?
“Who would want to kidnap us? I’m fine, so Leila will be fine as well. But where is she?” asked Renee puzzledly. She thought that it couldn’t be Pippa, “If it was Pippa, she should only want to take revenge against me. But between me and Leila, I turned out alright!”
“Pippa turned off her phone, but who else could it be? Leila never offended anyone else.” Miyamoto analyzed that situation level headedly and said, “I really thought she sincerely regretted her actions in the hospital, but now…”
He looked at Vincent puzzledly, Pippa didn’t call back at all, “Could it be that Pippa was also kidnapped?”
It was weird. First Pippa was gone, then Renee and then Leila.
Vincent tried to remain expressionless, but he was obviously worried. He could do nothing but helplessly wait for the news. There was nothing that he could do.
“Does the credit agencies have any news?” Vincent asked the dreary-looking Arthur.
“No.” Arthur looked depressed, and his face was filled with regret. He should stay in the café with Leila and Macey. That way, Macey wouldn’t get into an accident.
“Renee, you really don’t remember the man’s full name?” asked Vincent in a serious tone of voice, “There are many people whose surname is Palmer. It’s hard to track so quickly!”
“We should be getting the news soon!” Arthur looked at his phone, waiting for a call.
Vincent was most worried about this. He looked very calm, but his heart was filled with worry and frustration.
If this was normal kidnapping, then the kidnappers would ask for money. They must know that Leila was his wife because he announced it at the airport. The whole world knew about it, but nobody called yet. In that case, the kidnappers weren’t after money. They might not care about sacrificing Leila and hence Vincent was even more worried about Leila’s safety.