Stella Grace felt her heart tighten. “Eli!” she screamed.
The van drove away right in front of her.
Stella quickly started her car again and chased after the van.
The van sped down the road, and Stella saw another van with the same exact model coming over.
She was afraid of getting confused, so she memorized the license plate of the van that had taken Eli.
2S345.
The van arrived at a crossroad, and about four to five of the same van model suddenly appeared alongside it.
Stella was anxious. This kidnapping seemed to be intentional.
She called the emergency number as she drove. “Hello, I’m Stella Grace. My friend was kidnapped at the entrance of the American embassy. The van that took her is now on Wesser Road. The license plate number is 2S345. Please stop the van. I’m following the van now and will try to update you on my current location.”
There was a traffic light coming up. Stella was afraid that she would lose sight of the van, so she sped up.
The last van suddenly drove in front of her. It deliberately blocked her car right as the traffic light turned red and let the van in front of her continue onward.
Stella knew that they were deliberately trying to hinder her. In a burst of anxiety, she drove past the red light and frantically scanned the traffic for any sign of the van with the license plate number she’d memorized.
One, two, three…
She realized that all the vans had the exact same license plate.
There was another crossroad coming up right in front.
The vans split up and went into three different directions.
She felt as if she was on the edge of a breakdown, and she didn’t know which van could possibly have Eli in it.
She could only follow one of the vans. At least, those vans were on the same side.
She told the police, “There are more than a dozen vans with the license plate of 2S345 on the road. I don’t know which one of them has my friend in it. I’ve caught up with one now. They’re probably together. Please set up barriers and stop them, please.”
“We’ve recorded your information, and we are now applying for a permit from our superior. I’ll inform you later,” said the police.
Stella was so angry that she slammed her fist onto the horn on her steering wheel.
There were many regulations in A Country, and the procedures were also troublesome. By the time they got the permission to chase down those vans, it could already be too late for Eli.
She tried to calm herself down as she thought about what she could do.
The more irritable she was, the more useless she would be in this situation.
She hung up the phone and called Frederick Addington.
“Stella, are you awake? Do you want to have lunch together?” Frederick asked.
“Frederick , I need your help. Eli was kidnapped at the entrance of the American embassy.
She’s currently in a van with the license plate number 2S345, and there are more than a dozen vans with the same number plate around it. They are all exactly the same. I don’t know which one has Eli in it.
I’m sure that they’re all from the same organization. I’m following one of them right now. Could you stop the others for me?” Stella said anxiously.
“Even if I wanted to stop them, we don’t have the evidence to do so,” Frederick answered in a low voice.
“At least I’ll know who took Eli away.”
“It must be Sean.” Frederick said with certainty, “Sean’s people have been following Eli all this time. Eli’s plan to go to the States must have provoked him, so he probably ordered his people to kidnap her. But don’t worry, Eli will not be in danger.”
Stella felt a chill running down her back, and her face paled.
What Eli valued most was freedom.
Sean Yaleman was obviously trying to kidnap and imprison her.
“Could you please help me rescue Eli?” Stella pleaded.
There was silence on the other end of the line.
“Frederick, Eli is my one and only friend. I don’t want something bad to happen to her,” Stella spoke once again.
“She’s being taken away by Sean, I’m afraid that I won’t be able to save her.”
If even Frederick could say something like this, then it was all the more reason that Stella should rescue Eli. She wouldn’t be able to overcome the demons in her heart if something ever happened to Eli.
At this point, her life was already completely ruined. She was willing to exchange her broken life for Eli’s. “If you rescue Eli, you can do whatever you want with me.”
She had made up her mind.
Frederick was smart so he should understand.
“She’s in Sean’s place, so I won’t be able to save her. Sean’s secret room is even better than mine. But Stella, you don’t have to worry too much. Sean won’t hurt her. I promise that if there’s a chance, I’ll let you and Eli meet.”
Stella angrily hung up the phone and stopped the car at the side of the road.
Didn’t Frederick say that he loved her?
Was this love?
He was afraid of offending Sean and the president. She finally knew who the most important person in his heart was.
He was self-centered, and he couldn’t care less about someone else even if it meant their life or death, and this was exactly why he’d injected her with that virus.
She banged her fist on her steering wheel again, and the harsh sound of the horn rang out in her ears, as if she was venting all her frustrations through the sound.
Someone knocked on her window.
Stella loosened her fist and rolled down the window. It was a middle-aged woman.
“Are you out of your mind? Why are you honking mindlessly? You’re making a scene and disturbing everyone here!” The middle-aged woman scolded, her hands planted firmly on her waist.
Stella wordlessly rolled the window up.
The middle-aged woman still hadn’t quite finished trying to teach her a lesson, and rapped on Stella’s window again, thinking that Stella had a bad attitude.
Stella started the car in response.
Seeing that she was about to leave, the middle-aged woman kicked the door hard. “Get down from the car! Did your mother teach you to run away when you’ve done something wrong?”
A sharp light flashed in Stella’s eyes. She pushed the door open, got out of the car, and said harshly, “Did your mother teach you to destroy someone else’s property?”
“Well, you were the one started it by randomly honking your horn and disturbing others! And you still have the gall to talk back?” The woman asked incredulously.
“Yes, I do. It’s meaningless to argue with an unreasonable person anyway. Now get out of my way.” Stella went to pull the car door open.
The woman’s face turned red from rage and embarrassment, and she grabbed a fistful of Stella’s hair and pulled hard.
Stella suddenly felt a tingling pain in her scalp.
“Apologize to me, you little bit*h!” the woman cursed.
Stella grabbed the woman’s hair in retaliation and pulled with all her strength.
The middle-aged woman was in so much pain that she almost burst into tears. “Let go of me!” she screamed harshly.
Stella exerted her strength again. “You did it first! Why should I let go?”
The middle-aged woman cried out in pain. “Then I’ll let go first, and you can let go too!”
She let go, and Stella finally shook her off. “Get lost,” she spat.
“You b*tch.” As the middle-aged woman was about to rush over again, Stella grabbed a safety hammer from Eli’s car.
The middle-aged woman stopped and looked at the hammer in Stella’s hand before looking over at Stella again. “You wouldn’t dare,” she challenged.
“You’ll get to find out for yourself if you don’t disappear within the next three seconds!” Stella said sharply.
The woman seemed to realize that she wasn’t lying, and so she fled into her own car in disgrace.
Stella returned to the car and threw the safety hammer into the passenger seat.
After a random quarrel, she had finally managed to calm down.
Being angry and irritable wasn’t going to be of any use to her.
She dialed Jasper’s phone number.
“Stella?” Jasper answered, uncertainty in his voice.
“I’m going to the Skies Apartment now. Let’s meet up there,” she said lowly.
“Sure. I’ll head over now. See you later,” he agreed almost immediately.
Stella stared into the distance. The sunlight seemed to reflect off her misty eyes.
She’d never wanted to have anything to do with him anymore.
But it seemed that Jasper was the only person in this world who was willing to help her.