“I haven’t forgotten my identity,” Ryan whispered as a thought-provoking smile suddenly appeared in his eyes. “What are you asking me for? Recall what we’ve talked about. The answer is in there.”
“…”
Niamh could not figure it out at all. Although she and Ryan had not interacted much in this half a year, they had spoken to one another quite a bit.
Unexpectedly, this man was unfathomable.
“Eveline, I’ll wait for your call. You have two days to think about it.”
Ryan turned around after speaking, and right when he was about to start the car, Niamh suddenly stepped forward to open the door to the passenger seat before taking the initiative to get in.
Ryan curled up the corners of his lips and smiled. “You really care about him.”
“Stop talking nonsense. What I want is the reagent.”
Ryan did not say much either and stepped on the accelerator.
On the other side, Kendrick was following the clues he got from watching the surveillance footage and found the car the two men drove when Lillian was taken away.
It was dark now. Kendrick looked at the old apartment building in front of him, holding Lillian’s photos while questioning people one by one.
After asking a few people, however, he found nothing.
Kendrick decided to knock on doors one by one to look for her. However, as soon as he entered the apartment gates, he saw a burly man carrying a lunch box swaggering in through the gates. Kendrick recognized at a glance that this was one of the men who had forcibly taken Lillian away in the surveillance footage.
The burly man walked head-on toward him, his gaze meeting Kendrick’s eagle eyes coincidentally. He was taken aback for a moment and quickly recognized him. “Are you Kendrick?”
“It’s good that you know me. Return my daughter to me!”
The same time his voice sounded, Kendrick swiftly struck at the man like an unsheathed sword blade.
The man was burly, and he had strength. Seeing Kendrick rushing over, he threw away the bag in his hand and turned to run. At the same time, he made a call. “I’ve been found! Take that little thing away quickly! If it doesn’t work, kill the hostage!”
‘Kill the hostage!’
These three words fell into Kendrick’s ears. How could he bear it?
He jumped up and kicked the back of the man hard.
The man screamed and fell heavily to the ground.
However, he quickly got up again and wanted to keep running when a person suddenly appeared right in front of him. At that moment when he did not have time to dodge, he was kicked in his chest by the person in front of him. He then fell backward to Kendrick clumsily.
He wanted to get up again, but it seemed that the ribs on his chest had been broken. His face was pale with pain. He could not straighten himself up.
Kendrick looked at Fabian who had suddenly appeared in front of him with surprise.
Fabian seemed to be more violent than he himself who was the father as he rushed forward, pulling up the sweating man who was in pain.
“Say it! Where did you take that little girl?! Where is that girl now?!”
“You’ve beaten him till he can’t speak anymore.” Kendrick strode over, furrowing his sword-like eyebrows. “His accomplice should still be nearby. He just called his accomplice to take Lillian away.”
Just as he was saying this, a violent rubbing sound of tires suddenly came from the side.
Kendrick and Fabian looked over at the same time to see a black car quickly reversing before the steering wheel was turned. It headed straight toward the road.
This hasty move made Kendrick and Fabian aware that something was wrong at the same time.
The moment the car drove past their eyes, they also saw Lillian pushing her innocent and cute face against the window of the backseat. The little girl could not speak, only tapping continuously on the car window with her bound hands.
This scene fell into Kendrick and Fabian’s eyes, and the two called out in the same way with their voices filled with anxiety and distress, “Lillian!”
The car passed them in a flash and they could not forget the helpless and expectant look on Lillian the second before.
Kendrick immediately returned to the car and drove the car in front of Fabian. “Hurry up!”
Fabian got in the car without hesitation and stared at the car in front of them.
He could not lose them again this time!
Absolutely not!
The car was being driven madly, but Kendrick’s driving skills were not bad.
Although the car in front had tried to get rid of Kendrick many times, it was to no avail.
It was likely that the driver had gotten irritated as the car suddenly turned into a small alley. Kendrick’s car obviously could not pass through the narrow alley.
He could only predict the path of the car, so he made a circle and continued to chase forward.
“Sh*t! They’re really cunning!” Fabian said angrily.
Kendrick was calmer. He glanced at Fabian and warned with a domineering tone, “Why do you always go looking for my daughter? Fabian, don’t get any ideas and try to hit on my daughter.”
Fabian could hear the deeper meaning in Kendrick’s words. He lowered his eyes and gave a sad smile.
“I’ve not had a friend who treated me sincerely ever since I was young. Apart from my brother, Paul, I’ve never felt anything in this world that could warm me up.
“That is, until I met Lillian. Her innocent smile made me feel a special warmth.”
“So, what are you saying?” Kendrick asked, dissatisfied. “Don’t tell me you like my daughter? Fabian, my daughter is only five years old!”
Fabian’s dim eyes suddenly lit up when he heard the words. “I’m not that perverted. I just think it’d be great to have a sister like Lillian.”
Of course, if Lillian did not mind him being 14 years older than her, he would be happy to wait for her to grow up.
However, Fabian certainly did not dare to say this in front of Kendrick.
If he did, he could almost predict that Kendrick would just kick him out of the car.
Kendrick’s wise eyes swept across Fabian’s face coldly. “Fabian, do you know why I became like this?”
When Fabian heard Kendrick say this, he was filled with anger.
He looked at Kendrick, noticing his linen gray hair and amber pupils. There was indeed a big change from the previous Kendrick.
He did not quite understand it, but then he heard Kendrick say in a dissatisfied tone, “It’s your good sister Lana who used a type of poison to make me like this.”
“What?” Fabian was shocked. “Didn’t she like you a lot? How could she do such a thing to you?”
“Heh,” Kendrick sneered, “That kind of woman, did you think that she really liked me? In this world, only Nia cares about me sincerely.”
“…” Fabian was speechless for a moment. He was even more disgusted as to why he had a sister like Lana.
The atmosphere in the car fell into a brief silence. After a while, Fabian could not sit still.
“Kendrick, are you driving in the wrong direction? Why haven’t you found that car?”
Kendrick did not open his mouth until a moment later. “There are only two roads out of that alley, one to the city and the other to the suburbs. I don’t think he’ll choose a road that’ll be congested during this peak period.”
Fabian felt that to be quite reasonable. Even so, he still felt that Kendrick had made a mistake when he failed to locate the car after driving for so long.
Just then, there was a loud bang not far in front.
“Crap! Don’t tell me that car got into an accident?” Fabian’s heartstrings tightened.
Kendrick stepped on the accelerator abruptly and sped forward.
After traveling for about a mile ahead, he saw that the black car had hit a tree on the side of the road. The entire front of the car was sunken.
The thin man seemed to have injured his foot as he stumbled to the backseat, pulling Lillian out.
“Hurry up and let go of Lillian!” Fabian rushed over and roared.
Kendrick stopped the car and followed closely.
Lily, who was imprisoned in the arms of the thin man, saw Kendrick. Her eyes instantly lit up.
Dad.
The little girl seemed to have been injected with courage in that instant. She opened her mouth and bit on the thin man’s arm hard.
“Ow!”
The man let go of his hand in pain.
Lillian instantly fell to the ground.
“Lillian!” Fabian hurried over.
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
Loredana’s father left the family for his mistress, leaving them to fend for themselves abroad. When life was at its toughest, her father showed up with “good news” after 8 years of absence: To marry off Loredana to a paralyzed son of the wealthy Mendelsohn family.