She would kill Ben once everything was over!
All of a sudden, a car screeched to a halt right outside the house.
Alarm bells sounded in Gwen’s head.
Could Brettley and Bethan have arrived early?
However, Bethan already promised that she would wait until Gwen was ready!
“Ben,”
Meanwhile, the two people on the other side of the door did not seem to notice anything and were still caught up in the heat of the moment.
Gwen bit her lip, her heart lurching into her throat as she waited to see what happened next.
“Thud-“
All of a sudden, the front door was flung open, followed by the sounds of thundering footsteps as men stormed into the house.
Ben and the woman finally stopped.
“Who are you and what do you want?”
Ben’s guarded voice rang out. “This is my house! This is private property, and none of this has anything to do with you! Get out before I call the cops on you for trespassing!”
“Is that so?” a man’s cold voice rang out. “If that’s the case, why have I heard rumors of this being Gwen Larson’s house instead?
“We received a tip that Gwen Larson is hiding right in this very house.”
Gwen felt her heart skip a beat.
All the cells in her body seemed to be screaming in fear.
How could, how could this be?
How could Tyson have discovered her hiding spot?
What was she going to do?
Would Bethan and Brettley make it here in time if she were to call them now?
“Gwen’s friends have arrived in Sea City, and our boss picked up on that immediately, so he deliberately caused a traffic jam to stall them!” the man outside declared as though he could sense Gwen’s thought.
Gwen felt her heart sink.
No wonder Bethan got caught in a traffic jam without warning/
It was all Tyson’s doing!
Gwen bit her lip and placed her entire weight against the door, closing her eyes and awaiting her inevitable fate.
This house was not big at all, and with careful searching, the men would find her sooner or later.
With Stefan and Kurt out of the picture, there was no way she could make it out alive.
“There’s no Gwen Larson here!”
Ben’s voice rang out. “You must be mistaken! Gwen’s my ex-wife, and this is my baby here. If Gwen were to be hiding in this house, she would’ve stormed out to tear us apart by now.
“She loves me so much that she could never bear to see me being intimate with another woman,”
Ben was adamant,” you must be mistaken!”
The man sneered when he heard this. “You say that Gwen is your ex-wife, and this is your baby?”
Ben replied, “Yes, we–“
However, before he could even finish, he was interrupted by the woman’s bloodcurdling scream.
The man grabbed hold of Ben’s girlfriend.
This was certainly not what Gwen expected. She opened her eyes and pressed her ear against the door, trying to figure out what was happening outside.
“Ex-husband and ex-wife doing it in their old shared house. That’s a kink I can get by,” the man snickered, then instructed his subordinates, “Take Gwen Larson away!”
Ben stiffened for a moment, then lunged forward to stop them. “She’s not Gwen!”
“I’m not Gwen! I’m not Gwen!” the woman wailed in terror.”
I’m just doing this with him for the money. I don’t know who Gwen is, and neither am I his ex-wife! You’ve got the wrong person!”
“The wrong person?” the man sneered. “Only two people are in this house, so who else would it be if not you?”
This exasperated Ben. “Does Tyson know how stupid you all are? Don’t you all know what Gwen looks like?”
The man paused in his footsteps, then turned around and gave a naked Ben a hard kick in his shin. “Three months ago, all the photos of Gwen Larson were destroyed, including those on the internet and in her files. All the photos were ruined or swapped out with other people’s-more than fifty different women. Our boss can’t even tell them apart at this point. No one remembers what Gwen Larson looks like, save for Winson, but unfortunately as of now, he can’t come back to join us, so none of us have any idea what Gwen looks like! rv
With that, he scoffed and added, “However, that’s not important. She’s going to die soon anyway, so what does it matter what she looks like?”
Gwen closed her eyes. Thank God.
Thank God none of Luke’s old subordinates remembered what she looked like.
Gwen let out a sigh of relief amid Ben’s howls and the woman’s wails of agony.
She wondered why Ben decided to bring the woman here, but now, it turned out that Ben saved her life.
If they did not show up here, Tyson’s men would have turned the entire place upside down to search for her, and she would surely be caught.
The car started, and the woman’s howls grew further and further away.
Finally, after the car was out of earshot, Gwen let out another exhale of relief and texted Bethan. [You can come over now.]
Before this, Stefan specifically warned her not to leave the room, not before Bethan and Brettley arrived.
Taking his instruction to heart, she decided to continue waiting for them in the little room.
Bethan’s reply came quickly. [The jam has subsided too. Well be right over!]
Gwen felt as though a weight was lifted off her shoulders.
“Gwen?” all of a sudden, Ben’s voice rang out.
Gwen’s entire body stiffened.
She could tell from the proximity of Ben’s voice that he was standing right on the other side of the door!
Her heart leaped into her throat.
“Gwen,”
Ben knocked gently on the door, a hint of contempt in his tone, “you’re inside, aren’t you? I know you’re there. I was under the impression that a hobo moved into this house, but turns out it was you.”
He sneered and continued, “I knew you were hiding here when those thugs mentioned it. The only reason I didn’t tell them is because I wanted to capture you myself and turn you in for a reward. I can’t believe how stupid those idiots are. They don’t know what you look like and even got the wrong woman.”
He curled his lips into a smirk. “But I guess this works perfectly in my favor. Since they’ve taken her away, I don’t have to share my reward with her anymore and can take it all for myself!”
Ben’s words sent a chill down her spine. She could not believe the words that came out of his mouth!
Just a few minutes ago he was intertwined with that woman, and yet now he was allowing her to be captured out of greed!
“Open the door, Gwen. You can run but you can’t hide,”
Ben started to push against the door, “you’re far too weak, and I can easily overpower you!”
As he said this, he started shoving harder.
Gwen instinctively began resisting. Although the door was locked, she was still worried that Ben would be able to break the lock!
After his attempts proved to be futile, Ben burst into laughter. “You locked yourself in there, didn’t you? Did you think you’d be safe just because of this?”
As he said this, he reached out and plucked the set of keys that were hanging around his neck off their chain. “Too bad that I still keep all the keys to this house, Gwen!”
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.