The bodyguards turned pale with fright hearing the orders. What was going on? They had been guarding the door all along, how could Ms. Palmer have disappeared into thin air?
Without the time to ponder about it, they respectfully responded, Yes, Alpha Knight,” before sca ttering away to search for Taya…
Griffon wanted Andre and Zack to join in the mission, so he returned to the car to take out his work mobile phone that had not been turned on after the plane landed.
Just as he was about to call them, he discovered that Andre had sent a video in the middle of the night…
Keenly noticing Taya’s figure in the video, he tapped on it, just in time to see Eric lift his foot and kick her chest.
A beam of cold, bloodthirsty light gleamed from Griffon’ eyes. “Eric, just how bold of you to harm my woman. I see that you’re sick of living!”
With his face livid, he was planning to chop Eric into pieces after he managed to find Taya when he heard him mention Silas.
The sentence “Do you know what kind of life Silas has lived in Wolverly Capital these past few months?” stiffened Griffon’ body.
He saw Taya lying on the ground in the video. After hearing the words, her expression was in a trance, guilt overflowing in her
eyes… Griffon froze in place, his flustered emotions gradually suppressed by dense pain.
“Did you choose to leave without even a heads-up because you felt guilty toward Silas?” Yet, it was just too cruel. Time and time again, how could he ever
stand her abandonment?
His knees went weak as he collapsed against the car door. Even when he had learned of his illness, he had never been so in
despair…
As if his soul had been sucked out, he was rendered powerless as he raised his head, his blank stare falling on the villa she had once
stayed…
The starlight in his tw inkling eyes dimmed, losing all its brilliance after being flooded by despair.
“Taya, you’re my everything. If you leave, my life vanishes with you. Do you just have the heart to watch me die?” Slowly, the corners of his lips raised to a bitter smile as he retracted his gaze to land it on the woman on the screen. The corner of his eyes caught a glimpse of the time of the video recorded…
Something didn’t seem right. The time was wrong. Eric gave her a kick on the night of the day before the previous day, but they had talked on the phone the previous day… Seeing that he had lost weight, she had shown her concern for
him, so how could she have left him just because Eric brought Silas up?
Plus, Taya had promised that she would mate him regardless of whether she could be pregnant with a pup…
As she had firmly chosen him, she was guaranteed to never abandon him. Something must have happened to Taya!
After the thoughts in his mind cleared up, he strode into the villa, just as Mandy came forward with the surveillance footage.
Griffon took over the laptop and settled on the sofa, the eyes as frosty as snow locked on the screen displaying the footage.
Without missing a second, he witnessed as a scarred man avoided the patrolling bodyguards to sneak into the backyard.
Once the man came into his sight, the incident of Taya telling him about how a man with a scar had come to her to probe into Greyson’s whereabouts flashed through his mind.
A look of horror appeared on his face, especially when he saw the man with the scar creeping into the study from the window, his
heart tensed.
There were no surveillance cameras installed in the study, and within several minutes, a layer of cold sweat had broken out on
the forehead of the nervous Griffon…
He watched as the scarred man threw the unconscious Taya out of the window before carrying her on his shoulders to get into a
car without a license plate…
At the sight of the scene, Griffon’ fair, fingers clenched into fists, his knuckles creaking.
On the forehead, his veins throbbed as if he had been offended on his bottom line, emanating a viciously violent aura!
With a bang, he slammed the laptop shut, reaching for his mobile phone as he got into the car while giving Zack a phone call.
“At 11:20 in the morning, driving along the southern coast, a car without a license plate took my woman away!”
“The culprit’s main characteristic is that he has scars all over his face and is related to Greyson. Speed up the investigation.
Whoever finds anything out should settle this immediately!”
After Griffon gave his orders, he threw the phone away, the car engine roaring as it insanely sped in the direction of the vehicle left.
On a deserted island along the coast, a dilapidated wooden house was hidden within the dense woods.
Taya was tied to the stool with several layers of adhesive tape tightly stuck to her lips.
The suffocation slowly woke her up from the coma. Opening her eyes, she saw more than twenty ferocious, bulky-looking men surrounding her.
They had a tall and sturdy build as they held onto iron rods, daggers and other crime tools in hand.
Sunlight poured in through the gaps in the wooden house, falling on the polished surface of the daggers, reflecting with a ray of silvery white light.
The dazzling light pierced Taya’s eyes, instigating panic…
Her instinctive reaction was to struggle, only to find that her hands and feet were tied, rendering her at a loss of moving the slightest.
“Don’t waste your energy, you’ll never be able to escape…”
The man with the scar moved through the crowd, walking over stepping on his heavy leather boots.
At the sight of the scarred man, Taya came to the instant. realization that they were after Greyson.
She had lied to the scarred man that Greyson, whom she lodged
a report against at the police station, was Steve Parry. Only then had she been able to get away with her unconvincing trick on the
spot.
She never would have expected the scarred man to realize that he was deceived in such a short time, and by avoiding bodyguards of the manor, tied and locked her up in who knew where it was. Taya racked her brain for a way as she watched the man stepping
toward her…
They kidnapped her, probably to pry who Greyson was. As long as she insisted on never meeting Greyson, Griffon would
be safe.
After she came to learn about the purpose of the kidnap, the sense of panic for the unknown faded away.
Yet, seeing how they were holding onto daggers and sticks, she figured that she would undoubtedly suffer some torture when she
was being interrogated…
With her brows drawn to a frown, she put her mind into coming up with a solution to fool the group around, making sure that she would suffer minimal harm when…
The wooden house creaked with a push from the outside. A man in a suit and leather shoes with a pair of shiny sungla*ses stepped in.
Although his eyes were covered, Taya could still recognize who he was, Elder Thorin, a former chairman of Midwest Packs
Corporation.
Seeing Elder, there was an inexplicable sense of familiarity, an oddly strange feeling…
She figured that it was probably because she had worked in his company that she found him familiar.
It was just that she had never expected the man behind the kidnap in an attempt to pr od Greyson’s whereabouts to be Elder. Why would he be searching for Greyson? Seeing Elder, the man with the scar was quick to react by sending his underling to fetch a chair over and place it in front of Taya…
After Elder took his seat, he withdrew a cigar, lit it up and put it in his mouth. While biting the cigar, he jutted his chin toward the
man with a scar.
The scarred man came to immediate action by stepping forward to tear off the tape stuck on Taya’s lips…
Taya endured the severe pain, gasping for breaths of fresh air…
Elder’s arrogant gaze scanned her from head to toe. “Ms. Palmer,
it’s been a long time.”
Taya did the same by sizing him up without saying a word of reply.
In such a case, it was best not to say anything. Elder didn’t care if she answered or not. Since he had kidnapped her all the way over, he had never thought about letting her go. and didn’t hold back in his words either.
“I thought you’re dead, but I didn’t expect you to come back from the dead later. Fortunately, I found out about the re-registration
of your identity, else I wouldn’t have known that you’re alive and well, nor would I ever know where I should go searching for you…”
Taya was briefly taken aback hearing his words. “Why are your looking for me?”
Elder took a puff of his cigar before he began to slowly say, “Few years ago, you reported to the police at the West city that you were hara*sed by Greyson. I’m here to ask you, who’s the Greyson, who has been harming you since three years ago?” Taya ‘s heart trembled. It turned out Elder came to her from the police report few years ago…