Chapter 350 She Saved His Sister’s Life Three Years Ago
The phone call never got through. Clutching her cell phone, Jolly started to worry for Rachel’s safety. This is bad. I gotta go to Jublen as well.
Just as she was about to leave, her cell phone suddenly beeped, and a text message from a virtual number popped up on the screen. The short message only had two words. It read, ‘She’s fine.’
Seeing the text message, Jolly was startled for a moment.
A white arc streaked across the sky above the airport in Jublen as the plane touched down amid the roar of its engine.
It was already late at night, but the small two-story building on a hillside estate was being heavily guarded. Those patrolling the entrance were dressed in plain clothes, but they were all armed with guns and walkie-talkies.
“You moron!”
A loud slap landed on Lila’s cheek, causing her head to tilt sideways with blood trickling out of the corner of her mouth. Even so, she didn’t make a sound.
Dillon, who was sitting in his wheelchair by her side, frowned. “Lila isn’t to blame for this, sis.”
It was a woman who had slapped Lila. Dressed in black leather, the tall woman looked cold and beautiful and yet gloomy with her short hair and red lips. “She’s not to blame, of course. She’s only in charge of your safety, while getting the business done is part of your duty.” Sabrina Porter darted a cold look at Dillon, making him shudder with the oppressive look in her eyes. “But could I hit you instead of hitting her?”
Dillon braced himself and explained, “The stuff had been shipped to the dock, and everything went well along the way. No one thought that Interpol would turn up! Clearly, we didn’t get the news in time.”
“Still making excuses, huh?”
“Young Master Porter.” Lila put her hand on Dillon’s shoulder in time to stop him from continuing to argue with Sabrina. “Miss Sabrina, it was indeed my fault for being unable to stop Young Master Porter, causing the 100,000 tons of goods to be confiscated and the hard work you’d put in over the past year to come to naught. I’m sorry for my lack of forethought.”
“Hmph.” Sabrina let out a sneer. “Lack of forethought, huh? I’m curious about how you egged Dillon on to have your goods put on my ship.”
“It’s got nothing to do with her,” Dillon couldn’t help but say. “It was my decision. After we escorted our goods out to the high seas, something went wrong with the previous ship, so I decided to have the 10,000 tons of goods moved to your ship and have the two shipments transported together.”
“And look what happened?”
Upon hearing Sabrina’s icy words, Dillon was at a loss for a reply.
“What happened was that you got my whole ship confiscated for that little amount of goods you brought with you!” Sabrina’s face was livid with anger. “This matter isn’t over yet. Who tipped the police off? Dillon, you should take a good look at the people around you!”
Dillon frowned. “How could you be certain that something was wrong with my people? Weren’t your goods on that ship as well? Why don’t you suspect your people instead?”
Sabrina’s chilly and vicious gaze swept over everyone at the scene before finally resting on Lila. She said coldly, “I’m gonna check my people, of course. No matter whether it’s your people or mine, we have to check everyone out.” After all, they had suffered such huge losses this time that they had to find out the traitor urgently.
Just as they were speaking, Dillon’s phone suddenly rang, and he answered it grumpily. “Hello?”
“Young Master Porter.”
Hearing the voice on the other end of the line, Dillon immediately sat up. “Miss Hudson?”
The instant Sabrina heard this across from Dillon, her face slowly tautened.
“Glad to hear that you’re alright. We can talk about our collaboration later.”
The caller said something on the other end of the line.
“You go back to Riverdale first. Things are very tense lately, so let’s plan our next steps later.”
Dillon hung up the phone with a thoughtful expression.
Sabrina asked, “Was it the woman who did business with you?”
“Yeah. To think that she didn’t get caught! She was quite lucky.”
“Lucky?” Sabrina’s eyes gleamed with chilliness. “Not necessarily. So many unwitting stevedores were arrested at the scene, and she, a person in the know, was unscathed?”
Dillon frowned. “What do you mean? Are you saying that it was her who tipped the police off? What good would it do her to do that?”
Sabrina darted a look at him. “You idiot! This matter is no longer of your concern. I’ve gotten Dad’s permission to let me manage the business in Riverdale for the time being.”
“What? I disagree!”
“It’s not up to you,” Sabrina said. Then, she shot a frosty look at Lila. “When things have calmed down, you’ll go to Riverdale with me, and Dillon will stay here. If it really was that woman who leaked the information, I’d chop her to bits and throw her remains into the river with my own hands.”
Lila’s cheek was badly swollen with a visible slap mark on it, but she nodded without turning a hair. “Yes, Miss Sabrina.”
The night was dark. At a street payphone in Jublen, Rachel had just made a phone call. Dressed in a black hoodie with the hood up, she looked around after ending the phone call. Making sure that nobody had noticed her, she tightened her clothes around herself and walked into the depths of an alley, crossing two streets before finally returning to the hotel.
A man who looked like an assistant stood in front of the door to her room. “Miss Hudson.”
Rachel stepped back warily. “You’re…”
The man waved the bag in his hand. “Mr. Alex had me come over to bring you something.”
Only then did Rachel heave a sigh of relief. “Come in.”
The suite was large, with a living room and a small inner room. Alex had always been a big spender, after all.
“Here’s the new cell phone that Mr. Alex asked me to bring you, along with some cash and a credit card.”
Seeing the limitless black card, Rachel was startled for a moment, though she wasn’t very surprised. “Where is he?” Alex had left in a hurry after sending her to the hotel that day, so she didn’t get to speak much with him.
“Mr. Alex has something to deal with, so he’s left Jublen.”
“He’s left? Why such a hurry?”
“There’s something that he needs to deal with. Mr. Alex said he’d find time to visit you after he finished his work these days, and he wishes you to stay healthy and smile more.”
Rachel had a thoughtful look on her face. “Don’t tell me he came all the way here specially for me.”
The assistant replied, “As he once said, whenever you’re in danger, he’ll show up by your side immediately.”
Rachel subconsciously reached for her right arm with a complicated look on her face. “He doesn’t have to do this, actually…”
“Miss Hudson, you saved the life of our lady back then, which was equivalent to saving Mr. Alex’s life. This is just our duty, so you don’t have to take it to heart.”
Three years ago, Rachel had saved Laura Kennedy, Alex’s younger sister, by chance in an accident. At the time, she didn’t know who the siblings were. If it weren’t for Laura showing up when Alex pointed his gun at her head, she would’ve died right then and there. As for how they had cleared up the misunderstanding afterward and how Alex became very grateful to her, that was another story.
Still, Rachel was lost for words upon hearing the assistant’s words.
After Alex’s assistant left, Rachel was lost in thought for a while while staring at the stuff on the table. After a while, she came in front of the bathroom mirror and rolled up the right sleeve of her hoodie to the shoulder to reveal her fair-skinned arm. There had been a small cut on the inside of her arm before, which was hardly visible unless one looked closely, but a tiny chip had been inserted there.
It was thanks to this chip that Alex was able to find her wherever she was.
