“Should we call the police?”
Alvin was graved as he consulted Kevin’s opinion.
He pondered for a moment and shook his head, “We can’t wait. Let’s check the owner’s information first.”
The owner’s information was quickly found out. He was an unemployed vagrant named Harris. Kevin brought Alvin and other people to Harris’s house. It was noon and Harris was holding a bottle of white wine in his hand, chewing peanuts, and was leisurely watching the anti-Japanese drama Little Soldier Zachariah from time to time, and laughed.
A sharp dagger was thrown in front of him. He slowly looked up to see a bunch of people standing in front of him. Stunned, he stammered, “Masters, is there something wrong?”
Kevin went forward and asked him word for word gloomily, “Tell me, where is the woman you kidnapped last night?”
Errata was stunned, “A woman? What woman?”
“How dare you pretend?” Alvin took out a dagger and said to Kevin, “Master, just cut the crap and let him bleed.”
Hearing it, Harris was terrified, begging for mercy, “Master, don’t hurt me. I’m an honest man. I won’t do anything illegal. I really don’t know where the woman you’re talking about is.”
“It seems that you are really bold.”
Kevin instructed the people behind him, “Hold his hand down. Chop off two fingers first.”
Harris’s legs went limp to the ground, but Alvin dragged him up and pressed his hand to the table. Before being cut, he screamed hard, “I’ll say. I’ll just say…”
“You should have told us long ago.”
Alvin released him, and Harris trembled and confessed, “That woman was kidnapped by the Vince Gang last night to a ruined building near the Samara River in the north of the city.”
“Why did they kidnap her?”
“I’m not sure about that. I just drive for them. I don’t really know anything else, but it seems like someone hired them. I think I saw two women when I left, one older and one younger.”
“Go to the north of the city immediately.”
Kevin turned around and walked out, behind him Harris howled, “Masters, don’t ever say that I told you, or the Vince Gang will kill me…”
Arriving at the city’s northern ruin building, Kevin was the first to walk in. Alvin followed, looking around, but didn’t see Bella. He was anxious when a sharp-eyed hired thug pointed to the ground and said, “Master, there are bloodstains here.”
Kevin looked at the bloodstains, and his face was pale. He suddenly cried out, “Bella, Bella, Bella, where are you?”
All the men followed him to search, calling out, “Madam, Madam…”
In the dark house, Bella thought she was close to death several times, but every time she couldn’t hold on, she would hear her mother whispering, “Bella, you can’t sleep. You must not sleep. Those persecutors are still at large. You must hold on. One day, you should let them pay the price. ”
“Bella… Bella… Bella…”
In the haze, she heard Kevin’s voice, and slowly crawled on the ground. The whole room was dark and she only saw a glimmer of light from the crack of the door, and that glimmer of light was now the only hope for Bella. She couldn’t let herself die here. She tried her best to let Kevin know she was here.
When she climbed forward, she felt pain, but she still insisted on climbing to the door and shook the locked door with her last strength. People in the vicinity suddenly heard the sound of pushing the door, they hurried past, looked into the crack of the door, and exclaimed in surprise. “Here, Madam is here!”
As soon as they heard that Bella was found, all the people ran towards the small black house. They took out their tools from the car and smashed the lock on the door. Kevin was the first one to rush in.
But in the next second, he suddenly covered his chest, slowly crouched to the ground, carried Bella in his arms. He hysterical roared, “Who tortured you?”
He was so sad. Bella was actually beaten bloody.
Bella weakly lay in his arms, wanted to speak, but couldn’t. Her tears trickled down the corner of her eye to the palm of his hand, “Kevin…”
Kevin hugged her tightly in distress, and leaned closer to her mouth, “Bella, you go ahead. I’m listening.”
“I’m painful …”
Bella finally strained to say this. Kevin’s heart broke. He suddenly lost control and cried loudly, “Bella, I’m sorry. I didn’t protect you well. They actually beat you up! I can’t believe they’ve locked you in this dark room!!!”
Kevin was crying with grief. It was the first time in thirty years that he had shed tears in front of others for a woman.
“Bella, you should be hurting and desperate. How scared and helpless you are!”
Kevin collapsed and roared, only at this moment did he finally understand what true heartache was.
Real heartache was when you saw the person you loved the most being tortured and bruised all over, and you were unable to share that pain for her.
Alvin burst out in tears. He had followed Kevin for so many years, but had ever seen him so devastated, and sad. All of them present shed tears. They were dauntless unyielding men with soft hearts.
“Master, your wife is hurt so badly. You need to send her to the hospital quickly.”
Alvin came forward to remind, only then did Kevin sobered up from his grief, picked up Bella and flew to the car parked outside, “Quick, drive!”
Alvin quickly started the engine, driving towards the city center. From the reflector, he saw Kevin shedding tears and thought this time, Kevin was really in love with her.
Just like what a book said, a woman cried because she had given up a man, while a man cried because he really loved her.
“Bella, hold on, we’ll be there soon. It won’t hurt anymore.”
Kevin kissed Bella’s forehead over and over again, tears dripping down her cheeks. Bella was unconscious, but could clearly feel Kevin’s tears. She couldn’t speak, but in her heart comforted him, “Don’t be sad, I’m fine. You said that I wouldn’t be beaten down. I will not just fall down. ”
At the hospital, Bella was pushed into the emergency room. The doctor saw the injuries on her body were horrified. Who would be so vicious?
Kevin smoked one cigarette after another, as if it was the only way to relieve himself. Alvin stepped forward to dissuade him, “Kevin, you haven’t recovered yet. Don’t smoke. Your wife will be fine.”
“You find out the information I want as soon as possible.”
Kevin looked sulky, when he thought of those injuries on Bella’s body. He could not wait to shred the culprit into pieces.
“Okay, I’ll go investigate.”
Not long after Alvin left, the doctor from the emergency room came out. He hurried forward, urgently asking, “How is my wife?”
“The wounds have been cleaned up, but the external ones are fine, but she may take some time to heal the internal ones properly.”
“What internal injuries?”
“The patient is claustrophobic, isn’t she?”
“Yes.”
“That’s right, she’s very badly hurt. She should have been humiliated or abused for a long time by someone she resents.”
Kevin slowly clenched his hands into fists as he asked in a shaky voice, “So when can I see her?”
“This will depend on the state of the patient’s recovery. You can visit her when she wakes up.”
“Good.”
Bella had been unconscious for one day and one night. Kevin was waiting in pain. He finally experienced how Bella felt when she said that day, “Do you know how scared I was? Do you know how scared I’ve been in the last few days? I’m afraid that you’ll never wake up again, and that you’ll just leave me…”
Now, he was also afraid, afraid that Bella would leave him like Freya.
Until the evening, he called home to inform the news of Bella’s hospitalization. Blanche fainted after suddenly hearing that Bella was kidnapped and sent into the hospital.
When she woke up, Blanche cried to see Bella, while Patrick calmed her, “Do not be sad. Bella has been fine. We have been already messy enough. Don’t make it worse, okay?”.
He implicated that Blanche shouldn’t have fainted, causing the family to worry.
Early the next morning, Alvin arrived at the hospital, glanced at Bella on the bed, and said to Kevin, “Mr. Jones-Sharp, I brought a man who knows everything about what happened to Madam.”
“Bring him in.”
Kevin held Bella’s hand as if he had aged overnight.
Alvin shouted to the door, “Come in.”
The person who came in was Armand. When he saw his niece lying on the bed, he cried sadly. Kevin frowned, “Who are you?”
Armand choked and said, “I’m Bella’s uncle. My name is Armand.”