In the end, Robert could not bear to lose his temper at Heather and consoled her instead. He had many things to tell her and continued talking to her for a long time. As a result, she could not find any excuse to leave at all.
Only when it was getting rather late that he ended the conversation with her. When she returned to her room, it was already around 10:00PM. As her reaction was quite out of the ordinary today, she was not surprised that the conversation had ended up this way.
As soon as she entered her bedroom, the first thing she did was to open the video. The visual of the video was quite shaky in the first few seconds. With a frown, she continued to watch it.
The rest of the content sent chills down her spine. There was a lone figure on top of a tall building. Heather could not clearly see the face of the person, but as the camera panned closer, she could tell that it was a woman. As Heather continued to watch the video, she found out that the woman resembled Myra.
Oh no, this is bad! As the camera zoomed in, the woman’s face was shown in a flash. Heather quickly paused the video, but the frame was not clear as she could only see a vague outline of the face.
Narrowing her eyes, she tried to tell who the person was while hoping that it was not Myra. However, after carefully looking at the video, it really seemed to be Myra. The group of kidnappers actually had the courage to place her on top of a building. However, the video did not end at that moment as a group of men in black arrived.
They brusquely tied her up and used a black satin cloth to cover her face. The woman did not try to protest throughout the entire process, which caused Heather to be slightly suspicious.
Heather could not guess what they planned to do just as the video stopped right there. She clicked on her phone in annoyance. If anyone was here, they would be frightened by her furious expression at this moment.
The ringleader is becoming increasingly arrogant. I have to take some actions. I can’t allow them to continue their dominance. With a cold expression on her face, she dialed the ringleader’s number. He had always been using the same number to call her without worrying about anything.
Soon, the call connected and his tone remained as sarcastic as ever. She questioned coldly, “What did you do to Myra?”
However, he merely chuckled. When Heather heard his nonchalant chuckle, she wanted to crush every single bone in his body. Apart from that, she could also feel his animosity toward her.
She carefully thought about it. No one will suddenly treat another person as an enemy. Perhaps I had some grudges with the ringleader before?
“Miss Heather, you finished the video later than I expected.” He continued to provoke her. After all, he had received instructions to make Heather panic.
“Answer my question,” she replied patiently.
The ringleader cleared his throat and responded indifferently, “We won’t treat Mrs. Hart badly.” Won’t treat her badly? Heather could tell his underlying meaning, even though the man was basically speaking in riddles.
“Where are you bringing her?” She tried to control her emotions so that she would not be manipulated by him. She could not allow herself to be seen through by him.
He was also quite surprised to see that she did not flare up. Judging from her personality, she ought to be quite furious at this point.
However, he quickly thought that it was normal. After all, she was not an impulsive person, so it was quite normal for her to have such a reaction. In the ringleader’s mind, he thought about how he would deal with her. If she continues to remain calm, I will lose this match. I only have three days to destroy her strong will.
It was not an easy task to do. Even though he had Myra in his hands, he was quite vigilant about it. Compared to catching Myra, he would rather catch Heather instead. When he saw her glorious life at this moment, hatred surge within him.
One day had already passed and they lost control of the situation with Tony. The ringleader was worried that Tony would speak to Heather the next day. They must never meet each other.
“Sorry for making you busy for the entire day. I know that you have the capability to discover our hiding spot, so I can only play dirty. How do you feel about racing with time?” The ringleader continued to tease her.
Heather noticed his intentions to make her emotional. After all, she used to study psychology, so she immediately thought that he had hidden motives when he tried to intentionally provoke her.
“In that case, let’s see who’s faster then,” she replied indifferently. Since they want to provoke me, I will be even calmer.
Sure enough, after seeing her remaining calm, the ringleader became slightly impatient.
“Miss Heather, if you want to see Mrs. Hart safely returning, you better not contact Tony Hart.” He stopped beating around the bush and directly warned her.
“What if I do?” In the past, she would not challenge him head-on, but she did not care about it and wanted to see the ringleader lose his cool this time.
She could guess that the person whom she was speaking to was just a messenger. He did not have the authority to decide, so she thought she did not need to politely treat him anymore.
“You’ll just have to bear the consequences yourself,” the ringleader enunciated clearly with anger in his tone.
Heather deliberately let out a nonchalant laughter so that the ringleader would hear her. “If you guys want to play games, I’ll accompany you till the end.”
After they ended the call, she felt more relaxed. Perhaps the entire situation was not as complicated as what she had imagined it to be. At the very least, Myra was safe. Heather suspected that the ringleader would make demands with Tony directly, which was why nothing was mentioned to her. All this while, he had just been teasing her.
What a way to kill two birds with one stone! It seems like they are not planning to threaten me. It all makes sense now. After all, the most important person to Myra is Tony and the Hart Family runs a huge business. Of course it makes more sense to make demands with him directly.
It was also probably the main reason why the ringleader forbade her from speaking to Tony. However, she could not understand why the man wanted to involve her in this matter.
They did not ask her for money or anything else. Why are they doing this? Just to provoke me? This is unreasonable! Provoking me doesn’t give them any tangible advantage, unless they bear a grudge with me. Even if they bear a grudge with me, they will definitely request something from me. If I were them, I would totally make some unreasonable demands.
At the current moment, the only explanation was that the ringleader merely had sick, malevolent intentions. Heather wanted to wait for a while to see how everything played out. After all, kidnapping was quite a scary situation. In their circle, the chances of surviving it was only 10 percent.
I’m afraid I can’t come up with any good ideas to deal with the situation at this time. She did not dare to report it to the police. It would be best if we can settle it with money.
Even if she wanted to contact Tony, she still held herself back. In the phone call, she could pretend to easily oppose the ringleader, but she did not dare to do that in person.
Since Heather was unable to contact Tony, there were many things down the line that she could not deduce and all clues stopped right there. She had no idea how to contact him without the ringleader knowing about it, so she wanted to figure out what exactly his motive was.
At this point, the most miserable person was Tony. He could not tell anyone about the ordeal he had been experiencing at this moment, so he drank glasses of alcohol one after another.
In the night, he could not fall asleep at all and he would much rather that he was unconscious at this moment. He looked at the woman beside him now. Back then, she entered our family as a part-timer. I already thought that something was off, but I didn’t expect that she would be the reason why we are in this ordeal.
“How many faces do you have?” Tony looked at her with hatred. Her demeanor would change on a daily basis. Sometimes she looked innocent and pure while at other times, she looked sexy and seductive.
There was an evil heart underneath her beautiful face. Tony regretted that he did not clearly investigate her background in the past. After he looked into her background, he realized that her identity did not exist at all. All the information she gave him had been fabricated.
“Director Hart, I know you must hate me, but I love how you look when hatred is shown on your face.” With that, she stretched out with her hand to caress his face.
Tony avoided her in disgust and kept a distance between them. “Don’t anger me.” It was the first time he felt so useless.
“They want me to closely stick to you. Such a distance between us is not considered ‘close’ at all!” While speaking, she inched closer to him again as she gave a seductive smile as she looked at how he tried to hold himself back.
“I will kill you.” He spoke through gritted teeth.
However, the woman merely looked at him nonchalantly. “It’s worth dying in your hands.” With that, she continued to provoke him again. The smile in her eyes was not genuine at all and no one could tell what she had been thinking.
“What the hell do you want?” It was not the first time Tony had asked this question. The kidnappers had not raised any request at this point and every single second was torture to him.
He remembered what happened last night. He brought Myra out for a candlelight dinner, but the place suddenly became pitch black. He could not remember what had happened after that.
In the morning, Tony was woken up by Heather’s phone call. At that moment, this woman was already next to him and completely naked. Back then, he thought he had disappointed Myra by overstepping his boundary. However, after calming himself down, he was sure that he did not do anything out of line. After all, he knew his own body the best.
After that, he received news that Myra was abducted. Like Heather, he also asked the ringleader about their demands. However, the ringleader did not want anything from him.
To be precise, they did make some demands. The ringleader forced this woman to be with him and the reason was for her to keep an eye on him so that he would not report to the police.
Hence, that was how he landed in such a situation. After his conversation with her, he deduced that she was their part-time maid.
Tony had never imagined that he would be tricked by her. If I investigated clearly, this wouldn’t have happened.
Remorse thickened within him. His eyes were filled with hatred, but the woman was still smiling at him seductively and mockingly.
“Did we have any grudges?” Tony wanted to peel away the fake persona that this woman wore. He wanted to see what exactly she was and what grudges she bore with him.
Instinct told him that she hated him to the core. It was the type of hatred that she simply could not hide from him.
