At Arcadia, Andre couldn’t get through to Stella’s phone, so he ranball the way to her house to find that no one was around.
Feeling faintly uneasy, Andre sped to the hospital.
Only then did he learn from the doctors that Stella had been forcibly taken away by Eric.
On top of that, he was appalled to know that Eric, the b*stard, had kicked Ms. Palmer!
Just how bold and courageous Eric was to lay his hands on Alpha Knight’ woman! nAndre, whose face was livid with anger, picked up the phone and called Griffon.
The response he received was an automated beep as Alpha Knight’ phone was in flight mode.
Andre could only download the surveillance footage and send it to Griffon while he rushed right away to Wolverly Capital in search
of Stella.
In the morning of the next day, Taya was holding a pencil, referring to the plan and concentrating on completing the last building
when her phone rang.
With a casual glance at the screen of the phone, her hand jolted at the caller ID, going straight off the track she had plotted out.
She stared at Amon’s name on the screen and gulped. Her fists clenched in nervousness before she reached for the phone….
After Amon returned to Aronland, he had never given her a call. Why would he call her all of a sudden? Could it be that he was coming back?
As she expected, Amon’s first words were, “I’m back.”
From the other end of the phone, a deep, laid-back voice came, sending Taya’s heart thumping.
She gave merely a soft hum and dared not answer his words, let alone probe into the purpose of his return.
Amon sat on the U-shaped sofa, and with his legs folded, he asked her in a casual tone, “Is Johnny looking for you?”
Taya had thought that Amon was back for her to fulfill the second agreement and had never expected him to ask about Johnny. She breathed a deep sigh of relief. “Yes.”
After she replied, she added, “To be precise, he’s here for Rosalie.”
Amon gave a cold snort. Dragging her two daughters around, Rosalie’s mother had begged the Carmine and the Brook packs to help her out, but how had they reacted?
They did not hesitate to kick the mother-daughter trio out of the house and left them to fend for themselves on the streets by uttering harsh words. Nor had the Brook or the Carmine packs cared about their wellbeing.
For the dying woman in the Carmine pack right then, they had the nerve to come to Rosalie. The audacity!
Amon raised his bloodthirsty eyes to remind Taya in an icy voice once more, “It shouldn’t be anything to look forward to, so don’t reveal your identity to Johnny.”
Even without his reminding, Taya was well aware. “Don’t worry, he doesn’t know the news of my sister’s death, nor does he know
that I’ve replaced my sister.”
Amon said nothing in reply. With his finger rubbing against the wine gla*s accompanied by several light taps, he questioned, “Recently, Johnny went to countries around the Pacific Ocean to search for Rosalie’s whereabouts. It’s all Griffon’ doing for you,
isn’t it?”
Taya hadn’t expected Amon to know everything about her like the back of his hand when he was in Aronland all along. Indeed, he was Amon Johnson, the know-it-all. “That’s right.”
Seeing her resolute reply, a hint of contempt surfaced in Amon’s eyes. “I told you that Griffon is not your good match, so why are you still getting involved with him?”
Taya put her pen aside hearing his words. With a frown, she asked
in return, “You’re always saying that both of us aren’t a good match, what do you mean?” Instead of answering, Amon gave a brief response. “I’ll come to you later, wait obediently at home.”
Before Taya could question why he would come to her, he hung up the phone, no longer picking up when she dialed over.
Vaguely sensing that it wasn’t a good thing for Amon to come to her, Taya swiftly rolled up the drawings and planned to head over
to Griffon’ manor to wait for Griffon.
To her surprise, the man with the scar crashed in through a window to cover her mouth with a spi ked towel.
There wasn’t even the time for her to call for help or struggle. In just several seconds, her eyes rolled as she lost all consciousness…
The private jet arrived at the airport on time before a tall, intimidating man exited the airport under the protection of a group
of bodyguards.
After he got into the luxury car, he took out his personal mobile phone to call Taya when a pang of splitting headache struck him.
That incomparably handsome face was deathly pale to the point of losing all its blood in an instant, and so were the eyes
bloodshot…
He threw away the phone, and with trembling hands, rummaged for the painkillers prescribed by the medical director at Washington before shoving several of the pills into his mouth in one go.
When one of the bodyguards in the front line saw that he was still in unbearable pain after having undergone treatment, he persuaded out of worry, “Alpha Knight, why don’t you have the surgery?”
Surgery implied undergoing a craniotomy. Go d knew if he’d be able to wake up and recover from the surgery to see Taya once more? He would never agree to anything unpredictable.
Enduring the pain, Griffon raised his bloodshot eyes to sweep his cold glance past t bodyguard you ignore my orders?
The bodyguard fell dead silent. Alpha Knight had given the instructions that no one was to mention his condition upon returning to the United States. He had gone overboard. “I’m sorry.”
Griffon withdrew his cold gaze and raised his knuckle-bo ned hands to ma*sage his temples, quietly waiting for the medicine to
take effect…
When the headache no longer hurt as much, the car stopped at the entrance of the villa. Griffon braced all his strength to exit the
car and stride into the bathroom.
After washing up, he entered the cloakroom to pick out a formal black suit and got a hair stylist to deal with his thick hair.
It was only when he saw that the man in the mirror was no longer as pale and eyes as red-rimmed did he open the safe.
Very carefully, he withdrew the three items stored, a scarf, a photo, and a diamond ring. With much caution, he inserted the items into a box and walked out of the villa carefully holding onto them…
He wanted to be the only one to take Taya to Finland, so he didn’t get the bodyguards to tag along. After ordering them to stand by, he drove to Harper’s villa by himself.
Mandy hurried to open the door after seeing that it was Griffon. “Alpha Knight, Ms. Palmer is working on her drawings in the study. I’ll go get her…”
Griffon nodded to Mandy. “Thank you.” Mandy was really fond of the Alpha. Not only was he polite and a gentleman, and he was, too, good-looking. The cherry on top was the love he devoted to Taya.
Being extremely satisfied, Mandy returned a smile before she turned and walked into the study. “Ms. Palmer, Alpha Knight is here, come out quickly…”
When Mandy pushed the door open and failed to see Ms. Palmer’s figure, her words stopped halfway through.
Mandy let out a gasp, puzzled. “Strange, isn’t Ms. Palmer always in the study? Where is she?”
Griffon, waiting outside the door, saw Mandy leaving the study and walking up to the upper floor. His face sank as he stepped
over.
With one step onto the first floor, he saw Mandy coming out of the bedroom frowning. He sped up forward to ask, “Is she not here?”
Mandy nodded, a little confused. “Ms. Palmer is not in the study, nor is she in the bedroom, where did she go?”
Griffon’ heart sk ip ped a beat. A sense of uneasiness poured down upon him, filling his starry eyes with panic in an instant.
He dashed to the study room. In front of the large wooden desk, no trace of Taya was found, only rolled up drawings.
Griffon had long been thrown into panic, but he had to calm himself down. After sending Mandy to retrieve the surveillance footage, he returned to the car to fetch his phone.
He swiftly reached for his mobile phone to call Taya, but even after making several calls, no one answered…The sound of the beeping and automated voice from the receiver sent the flustered Griffon trembling with fear.
He had told Taya that he would come to pick her up, so she wouldn’t wander around, unless anything were to have happened.
Calming his frantic self down, he raised his fingers and waved at the group of bodyguards waiting outside the villa.
He didn’t have time to accuse the bodyguards of not protecting Taya. Instead, his icy voice rang out. “Go and find Taya. If you all can’t find her, get lost!”