Laura was taken aback when she realized they were boarding the helicopter to visit Robert.
After twenty minutes of flying, the helicopter landed in a remote location.
Once they got off the helicopter, Laura followed Marco, who was already walking ahead of her, as they approached a black SUV a few ters away.
They headed to the location using a car, and after ten minutes, they arrived at a rusty warehouse that looked like it had not been used for a long ti.
Laura was very nervous following Marco inside the rusty warehouse. The vast building was empty, and a few robust n stood in the corner, waiting for them.
Just before Laura wanted to ask, her eyes fell on a familiar figure she t almost every day. The man’s body was stocky, just like Robert, but his face looked unrecognizable and was covered in wounds.
Laura was puzzled.
"Robert!?" She muttered as she continued to approach the man who was sitting on a chair with his body tied to a rope. The man’s eyes looked red, staring back at her.
Her step stopped a few ters from the man and then looked at Marco, who was standing right before her.
"Babe, is this man really my manager?" she asked in a low voice.
Marco nods while smiling at her. And he gestured for one of his people to approach them.
"L-Laura..." A barely audible sound escaped Robert’s lips as soon as he saw Laura. He was happy to see her but frightened at the sa ti. If Laura and her fiance knew what he did, they might kill him.
Robert sighs silently while trying to endure all the pain that still lingers in his body. His condition now seed awfully miserable.
Laura didn’t answer Robert imdiately but looked at Marco’s people, the long-haired man standing before them. She looked at the man, "You guys hit him?"
The long-haired man shook his head, "No, ma’am. We found him in this condition..."
She didn’t say anything else to the man with long hair but turned her gaze again to Robert. Her hand clenched into a tight fist as she asked, "Who did this to you?"
Robert bitterly smiled, looking at the confusion and anger in Laura’s eyes, enough to make him decide to be honest with her. He was too exhausted now. Either Laura and her fiance would let him live or kill him later; he didn’t care anymore.
"Laura, my suggestion to you..." Robert’s eyes stare into her eyes. "You better run away. You are so daring to offend soone... you should not. If you didn’t run, you would definitely end up just like . They will capture you and perhaps throw you in jail..."
Instantly, Laura felt her blood running cold, hearing Robert’s warning. Her hands clenched even more tightly.
"Offended who?" She snapped. "What are you trying to say?"
"Tristan Sinclair!"
Laura was utterly shocked to hear that na. Suddenly, countless questions now appeared in her mind: Why does Tristan torture her manager? What’s his motive? Why is Robert saying Tristan will capture her, too? What is going on outside?
She rembered giving up on Tristan Sinclair and made a promise to Tristan’s mother that she would never appear before them again.
"Are you kidding, right?" Laura asked, only to reconfirm if she heard it wrong. "Robert, you lie to , right?"
"No! I’m telling the truth..." Robert weakly answers. "Laura, please help ... let go now. I can’t stay in this country, or Tristan Sinclair will co to collect my life." His voice trembles as he pleads to Laura.
Not only was Laura shocked to hear Tristan’s na. But Marco also felt the sa way.
Marco wasn’t afraid of many people in this country, but there were a few nas he would not cross paths with. He was fearful of their power and connection. One of them was the Sinclair family, especially Tristan Sinclair.
"What the hell are you doing this ti, Laura?" Marco’s cold stare is enough to make Laura’s face turn pale as she looks at him.
"Explain why you are having a connection again with that man. You said you no longer have a connection with him and his family. Why did he suddenly capture your manager?"
Marco started to doubt this woman’s honesty.
Laura opens her mouth a few tis but fails to utter anything. She feels frightened hearing Tristan Sinclair’s na after what happened the last ti she t Jessica Sinclair; that woman tortured her.
’Did Jessica Sinclair ask Tristan to arrest my manager?’ Laura muttered angrily.
****
The Next Morning.
Stefan is expected to arrive in the city today. Still, Bella has decided not to pick him up from the airport because Tristan insists on following her to the airport.
She is concerned that soone might take photos of them if she and Tristan are seen together at the public airport. She doesn’t want to add a new problem; she already has many matters and responsibilities to bear.
...
Bella sits alone on the garden bench behind her Grandpa’s house, watching Dax doing his morning exercises near the lake with Geoffrey.
"You didn’t go to the office?"
Suddenly, Isaac Donovan’s voice ca from behind.
Bella spots her Grandpa walking towards her. She smiles at him when he sits on the bench beside her.
"I will go after nine in the morning… right after our breakfast, Grandpa."
"I see. Okay, if you think you must. By the way, where is Tristan?" Isaac is curious because Tristan didn’t show up at his house this morning when Bella and Dax joined him for breakfast.
"Tristan is already leaving for the office; he has a eting early this morning," Bella answered.
She knew Tristan was speeding up his eting because he wanted to accompany her to the airport.
However, this morning, she decided to punish him. She didn’t pick up Stefan, so Tristan was forced to go to the office early in the morning.
Bella feels amused rembering how miserable Tristan was before he headed to his office.
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