“Mrs. Waldburg, are you serious?”
“Do you think I’d play with my life?” Niamh asked sternly.
The man figured that it made sense. After he thought about it, money was just a number to those with a family background like Niamh. They would not lose their lives for a small sum of money.
The man’s eyes suddenly became greedy. “Then how much can you give me?”
“I’ll give you twice as much as the other party gave you for our lives. But if you can tell me who hired you to target me and Ava, I’ll let you name the price.” Upon hearing this, the man’s eyes lit up even more, “ Eveline, you have to keep your word.”
“I’m a woman of my word.”
“Alright, P11… I’ll ask for 100 million dollars, then.” The man proposed an outrageous price.
Niamh smiled and did not say anything.
The man thought Niamh was not satisfied. Hence, he said, “Mrs. Waldburg, since you’re so straightforward, I won’t beat about the bush with you. The person who asked me to keep an eye on Ava is Naya Mendez.”
When Niamh and Ava got this answer, they were not surprised at all.
They had already guessed that Naya was the one behind this.
When he saw that Niamh seemed to be stunned, a smug smirk appeared on the corner of the man’s mouth.
“Mrs. Waldburg, what do you think? Is this information worth 100 million dollars?”
Niamh smiled. “I’ll give you 200 million dollars. You should cooperate with me to do something. After the deed is done, not only will I give you the remuneration you deserve, but I’1l also tell the police that you didn’t kidnap me and Ava.”
After hearing this, the man’s jaw dropped open. He was utterly stunned.
What a great deal!
“Mrs. Waldburg, do you think I’m five years old?”
“I never lie to children.” Niamh’s answer was very serious. “That’s settled, then. You should go get some food and drinks.”
“No way.” The man refused. “If your friend runs away with you when she’s full and has regained her energy, then I would’ve made a loss.”
The man remained suspicious of Niamh. He picked up more rope and pointed at Niamh’s hand.
“Mrs. Waldburg, if you don’t want your delicate skin and tender flesh to be hurt, then cooperate.”
His meaning was very clear. He wanted to tie up Niamh as well, just in case.
“Niamh, don’t listen to him. You can’t trust people like him at all. You should leave as soon as you can,” Ava advised, worried that Niamh would be implicated by her.
Niamh looked at Ava and gave her a reassuring smile.
“Ava, since I’m here, I’ll return with you. Don’t worry, I believe that money can solve many problems in this world, including the problems we’re facing now.”
After Niamh finished speaking, she simply stretched out her hands to the man. “Go ahead.”
“As expected of Kendrick’s woman. How courageous.” The man praised and quickly tied Niamh’s hands. As soon as he was done tying her hands, the man received a call.
He glanced at Niamh and Ava who were already tied up and went outside to answer the phone with confidence.
Ava sighed depressedly. “Niamh, how did you get kidnapped?”
“It’s almost like what happened to you. He suddenly knocked on my car door and I didn’t have time to react,” Niamh explained, not wanting to tell Ava that she had to compromise and get into the man’s car because she was worried about her safety.
“Sigh.” Ava sighed again. “I didn’t expect the grudge between Naya and me to get to this level.”
“This has nothing to do with you. Naya’s the one who’s sick in the head.” Niamh looked at the door and vaguely caught a glimpse of the man talking on the phone. “I’m afraid he’s talking to Naya.”
Just like Niamh expected, Naya was hiding in the bathroom and on a call with the man. The police and the family of the woman who died had yet to come to make a fuss with her.
She was overjoyed to learn that the man had even kidnapped Niamh. She was being locked in the abandoned electronics factory with Ava.
She wanted to use this chance to get rid of Niamh and Ava, but she did not want to get into trouble. Hence, she could only use this man for now.
“what are you going to do now that you’ve kidnapped Eveline and Ava?” Naya tried to figure out the man’s next plan.
“I kidnapped them for money, of course. Isn’t this what you keep reminding me about, Miss Mendez? One of them has a rich mother while the other’s husband is the richest man in Glendale. I have to get as much money as I can from them no matter what.” “They can indeed get you a lot of money, but I have to remind you that Kendrick loves Eveline very much. Since you’ve kidnapped his wife, he won’t forgive you even if you flee to the end of the world.” There was a hint of intimidation in Naya’s words.
The man was silent for a few seconds, seemingly panicking.
“And what good tips do you have, Miss Mendez?” “I’m just saying… Just take it as though I’m talking to myself,” Naya said with a sinister smile on her face. “ Once you get the money, you should just leave those two there and have others rescue them. Otherwise, if those people manage to rescue the two before that, I’m afraid that you’ll have to spit out the money you already have. Not only that, you’ll spend the rest of your life in prison. If necessary, I think you can just kill them.”
“Kill them?”
“That’s right.” Naya continued to scare him and egg him on. “If you can’t kill them, their parents and husband will kill you.”
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When the man heard this, he was clearly panicking. Naya hung up the phone happily. She knew she already had this in the bag.
She then hid her phone in the cabinet of the toilet before walking out.
The moment she walked out, someone suddenly pushed the door open and barged in.
“Naya, come out!”
Naya abruptly stopped in her tracks and looked at the man who broke into the room angrily. She did not know him at all.
“Who are you? Why are you screaming my name?” Naya said coldly, feeling pissed.
The man suddenly turned his face when he saw Naya. The man’s red eyes fell on Naya’s arrogant face, and Naya was startled by those eyes. When she was ina trance, the man rushed in front of her without her noticing. Then, the man raised his hand and slapped Naya’s face heavily.
Slap!
“ah!”
Naya screamed in pain and raised her hand to cover her cheek. Then, she widened her eyes to look at the man in astonishment before taking two steps back in horror.
“W-Who are you? Why did you slap me? Nurse! Where’s the nurse? How can you let just anyone into the VIP ward?” Naya shouted toward the door of the ward.
“Naya, what’s the matter? What happened?” Naya’s mother also came back at this time. She hurried to Naya’s side and looked at the man with red and teary eyes, “W-Who are you? Why are you in my daughter’s ward?”
Upon hearing Naya’s mother’s words, the man was even more emotional. “So, you’re Naya’s mother! You deserve to be slapped too!” After the man said that, he slapped Naya’s mother as well.
Naya’s mother screamed in fright and pulled Naya back.
However, not only did the man not leave, he picked up a fruit knife on the coffee table and chased after Naya and Naya’s mother. 3
“Ah! Help! Someone, please get in here! He’s trying to kill us!” shouted Naya’s mother. When the man’s knife was about to reach them, someone finally pushed the door open and came in. The people who came in held the man back together. Naya and her mother finally let out sighs of relief. Seeing that the man was still trying to attack them, Naya rolled her eyes in anger.
“What’s going on? Where did this lunatic come from? How dare he come in here to cause trouble?!”
Naya touched her cheek which was hurting after she was slapped. Then, she walked arrogantly toward the man who was being held by others. She raised her hand and was about to slap him back.
“How dare you slap me?! I’ll let you know what the consequences of slapping me are!”
As soon as she finished speaking, she reached out and struck down.
Slap!
Ah!
A loud slap could be heard, but the slap landed on Naya’s face instead.
She looked at the young man who slapped her in astonishment. “W-Who are you? Why did you slap me?”
“Yeah, I slapped you. You’re Naya Mendez, right? You killed my sister with your car. That slap my brother-in -law gave you just now was considered him being lenient. How dare you make so much noise here? Just wait. Don’t think that you can settle this with money. We’ve already seen the surveillance footage. You deliberately crashed into my sister’s car! We won’t let you get away with this!”
When Naya heard what the young man said, she and her mother did not have the confidence to talk back anymore.
They were the family of the woman who died.
“Just wait, you evil woman!” The woman’s husband pointed at Naya and scolded her in sorrow.
Naya was fuming but did not dare to talk back for fear that the man would slap her again.
After the man was pulled away by his relatives, Naya quickly closed the door and pushed everything in front of her to the floor in anger.
She touched her sore cheek, gritted her teeth, and clenched her fists. “Ava, you’re the one who did this to me. You were the one who should have died! I won’t forgive you! I’ll never forgive you!”
Waldburg Corporation.
Kendrick had been looking for Ava’s whereabouts for a long time. Aside from having no clues about where she was, Niamh was also suddenly uncontactable. He made several calls in a row but still, no one answered.
Kendrick was a little worried. He finally found Niamh’s car using the GPS tracker.
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