“What’s going on?” Maria’s heart skipped a beat, but before she could react, the small boat flipped over.
Kim instinctively tried to grab Maria, but he was too late. She fell into the lake and he followed suit.
It was a chilly autumn night and the lake water was cold. The bone-chilling cold mixed with infinite fear swept over Maria’s body.
Oh no! She couldn’t swim!
“… help!” Maria cried out loudly, but the lake water quickly engulfed her.
“Maria!”
When Maria lost consciousness, she vaguely heard Kim’s anxious voice.
When she woke up again, she found herself tied up in bed. The surroundings were extremely unfamiliar and Maria had a bad feeling about it. Her body trembled uncontrollably with fear.
She only remembered being on the boat with Kim before falling into the water. Why did things turn out like this? Was it kidnapping or something else?
The more she thought about it, the more scared she became. She dared not shout for help and could only struggle frantically with her limbs. However, all her efforts seemed futile due to her restraints.
Just then footsteps sounded outside of the door which made Maria hold her breath in terror momentarily until several burly men walked in followed by someone familiar…
“Waylen!”
After seeing his face clearly, Maria was shocked and frightened at once; her voice hoarse from nervousness, “Don’t touch me! Waylen! Let go of me!”
Struggling hard against him while glaring at Waylen fiercely, she said, “It was you who brought me here!”
Waylen narrowed his eyes as his hand that had been resting on Maria’s cheek began moving downwards maliciously, “Maria,” He said smiling wickedly “I’ve told you before that sooner or later you’ll be mine.”
“Get away from me! You bastard!” Realizing what Waylen intended to do next made Maria’s blood boil; shouting furiously while tears welled up in her eyes.
“I just love seeing you like this.” Waylen’s grin widened as he unbuttoned himself then reached out to pinch Maria’s waistline.
Maria wished nothing more than cutting off Waylen’s hands right now but instead took a deep breath forcing herself to stay calm because panicking wouldn’t help matters; there must be someone coming to save her soon enough…
Thinking so far ahead gave way for an idea as Maria’s tone softened slightly, “Hold on a second, Waylen…”
Waylen, who was about to push up Maria’s clothes, heard her words, thinking that she might struggle or scream, so he did not stop.
After all, he was eager to have Maria at this moment.
“Waylen, can you let them leave first…”
Maria quickly spoke up, “There are too many people, and I’m not comfortable…”
Hearing this, Waylen turned his head to see a group of men standing in the room, and his expression became somewhat subtle.
“Let them go out, just the two of us… It’s also more convenient,” Maria added.
Hearing this, Waylen nodded, “You guys wait outside.”
After a few men exchanged glances, they also nodded and walked out. For a moment, there were only Waylen and Maria in the room.
“Let’s continue,” Waylen said, approaching Maria.
Maria’s pupils contracted, and she forced a smile at Waylen, “Wait! Wait a minute!”
“What else do you want to do!” Waylen became a bit impatient, and his brows furrowed deeply.
“Could you release me? It hurts so much like this,” Maria looked at her bound limbs and requested in a pleading tone.
Seeing Waylen hesitate, Maria continued, “There are people guarding outside the door; I can’t run away. Besides, being tied up like this, you don’t like it either.”
Indeed, Waylen didn’t like seeing Maria bound like a lifeless person; it wouldn’t be enjoyable to play with her this way.
Thinking so, Waylen reached out and untied the restraints on Maria’s hands and feet.
Maria curled up on the bed, moving her bright red wrists. Her gaze quickly searched the room.
…
By the lakeside.
“Awake, awake!”
As his hearing gradually recovered, Kim coughed out the water in his mouth and took a deep breath.
The recent events replayed in Kim’s mind.
Where was Maria?
The moment he woke up, he began searching for Maria but didn’t find her.
“Where’s the girl who was with me?” Kim looked at the restaurant staff around him and anxiously inquired.
“We only found you in the water; we didn’t see the girl,” the restaurant manager, hearing this, looked uneasy and quickly instructed the people around to search again.
Kim’s face instantly turned frosty; he threw away the towel on him and stood up abruptly, saying, “Give me the phone.”
The manager hesitated for a moment, not quite grasping Kim’s words.
“Give it to me!” Kim’s expression changed, even the manager was scared and handed over his phone without hesitation.
The people who could afford to book that private room were either rich or powerful, not someone they could mess with.
Kim immediately dialed a number on the phone. “Check all the surveillance cameras around this restaurant based on my location now. Find that person for me!”
Then, Kim contacted Maria’s agent. They had met before so Kim had her contact information saved.
“What did you say?” The agent was in Jane’s office at the time and stood up in shock upon hearing the news, even surprising Jane for a moment.
“Okay, we’ll be right there.” The agent responded quickly.
Jane saw that after hanging up the phone, the agent turned pale and her voice trembled as she spoke. “Maria is missing.”
“What?!” Jane couldn’t believe what she just heard and furrowed her brow to calm herself down immediately.
Maria was very innocent and didn’t have any enemies. How could she be kidnapped?
Thinking of this, Jane immediately called Patrick, “Patrick, Maria is missing. I should be able to locate her soon but I might come back late tonight.”
Patrick replied in a deep voice, “Where are you? I’ll come pick you up.”
Patrick brought some bodyguards with him to Star Entertainment where he picked up Jane.
Jane also contacted Kim as soon as possible since she knew about Maria going out with him today. She did some simple background checks on him too.
“Who could it be…” In the car, Jane frowned, quickly pinpointing the location of Maria’s phone.
It was in a villa in a private residential area with few people.
“We need to hurry,” Jane understood that being even a second late might mean an extra second of danger for Maria. No one could predict what the kidnappers might do to her!
At the same time, Kim had also conducted an investigation, tracing the car that took Maria. Using surveillance footage, he located a villa in the outskirts.
Jane immediately joined forces with Kim, heading towards the villa where Maria was located based on the GPS coordinates.