“All right, be safe,” Peace said, “Don’t you think it isn’t coincidental? Apparently, they’re coming for the kids. Are they trying to wipe out the descendants of the Wright family?”
“Don’t talk nonsense, honey. Gary isn’t one of the Wrights.” Karl shrugged as he faced a group of teenagers in the living room. He said, “Your name is Alicia, right? Why don’t you take Natalie to the shower?”
Nodding, Alicia took Natalie to the bathroom.
***
A while later, Emily and Ryan walked together to the police station. They kept talking about a group called Night Eagle on the way.
“Why did they send so many people this time? First, something happened to Matthew, and then Tammy and Gary disappeared. Everything is about the Wrights. Did Wayne and Anna offend someone?”
Shaking his head, Ryan said, “I have no idea. They’re both now in Fleosil. It’s a shambles there, but Night Eagle has never been before. Besides, I don’t think their enemies did so. Don’t forget about Gary. I don’t think they’re doing this to retaliate against Wayne and Anna.”
While they were talking, someone pushed the door open and came into the room, saying, “Someone is looking for you, Emily and Ryan. She claimed to be your sister.”
“Isabella?! ”Ryan and Emily exchanged glances as they both spoke at the same time.
Down the hall, a young girl in a white coat was walking restlessly.
“Isabella!” Ryan recognized her right away the moment he spotted her.
Isabella asked when she saw Ryan and Emily. “Have you found Matthew yet? How are Tammy and Natalie doing?”
“Matthew and Natalie are fine. But Tammy is missing,” Emily replied.
Isabella hung her head. “It’s all my fault. I’m sorry. I should have told you guys sooner. Tammy always acts on impulse, but I still told her about that.”
“What is going on?” Emily and Ryan were completely unaware of what was going on. They couldn’t figure out why the three girls knew where Matthew was and went to save him.
Then Isabella told them everything she knew, “I saw Maria meeting with a man in Cliatin and that they were trying to ruin the Carousel Group. Later, I tracked Maria back to Birmingham, where I saw her visiting Matthew at the hospital and taking him out. Maria then took him to the base of the bad guys.”
“What? Did Maria do it?” Ryan asked, his face pale.
“No wonder her signature is the same as Anna’s,” Emily said, nodding.
“I’m sorry! It’s all my fault,” With her face buried in her hands, Isabella sobbed.
“Stop blaming yourself, Isabella. It’s already happened, so we should just face it. I know you didn’t expect Tammy to go there without telling anyone. We still have some hope because we haven’t heard anything about Gary or Tammy,” Emily said.
“What happened to Gary?” Isabella asked, as she had no idea Gary had gone missing as well.
After hearing Emily’s account of the situation, Isabella asked, surprised, “Night Eagle? Wait, I heard of them before! ” She then took a rag from her coat pocket and showed it to them.
Emily was taken aback when she saw the logo on it. “How did you get this?”
Isabella said, “A woman allowed me to leave the Maldives on her boat. She was the woman who lives in the mansion next door to our hotel, and she had this sign all over her boat.”
Emily went completely still. She didn’t attend Isabella’s wedding because she was on a mission at the time. Meanwhile, Ryan was aware of the whole situation, as Jasper even asked him to find Isabella after she ran away.
“Are you talking about the group of people in black?”
Isabella responded with a nod, “That woman is their leader. She took me off the island without asking for money, but she gave me sleeping pills on the way. When I woke up, I was already in Cliatin.”
Seeing that Emily’s eyes widened in shock, Isabella quickly explained to her, “It’s all right. I wasn’t hurt. They did it because they didn’t want me to know who they were or where they were going.”
Emily sighed with relief, “So, why didn’t you come back? Everyone has been looking for you nonstop.”
“I…” Isabella paused, unsure of how to explain.
“It’s all right. We don’t have time for that now. What else was in that ship, Isabella? Tell us everything you heard and saw in the ship,” Ryan helped Isabella dodge the question by changing the subject.
“I overheard her arguing with her assistant about whether or not to bring back a child. I didn’t hear anything else.”
Emily asked, “Bring a child back? Which one?”
“It’s Gary,” Isabella clenched her fists.
Both suspicious, Emily and Ryan exchanged glances. “I’ll look into it,” Emily said as she stood up. At the same time, she thought to herself, For the past several years, no one mentioned Gary’s parents. Everyone knows who his mother is, but no one knows anything about his father. Gay’s father couldn’t possibly be Dragon because he wasn’t that powerful.
After a long drive, Emily returned to Karl’s house. Before turning off the intercom, she opened the curtains to check the situation outside. At that moment, Peace, Karl, Matthew, and Isabella all sat in the living room. When they heard the sound of an engine outside the yard, everyone froze.
“I’ll go check it out,” Isabella said, standing up.
After getting out of the car, Jasper noticed Isabella standing in front of the house. She bowed her head and appeared to be ashamed.
“Isabella,” Jasper said as he approached her.
“I’m so sorry,” Isabella said quietly.
Jasper held her close and stroked her hair gently. He said, “It is not your fault. I knew they had been planning to take Gary away for a long time. They would do so whether you leave or not.”
They then walked into the living room together. Isabella kept whimpering because she was drowning in grief. And Jasper comforted her by holding her hand tightly.
“This organization has been mysterious, so there is very little information about them,” Jasper explained to the crowd, “But they are mercenaries, after all, so it’s not difficult to find some people who have worked with them.”
“What’s going on? Gary’s still a kid. How could he possibly have anything to do with this goddamned organization?!” Peace asked.
“This whole thing has everything to do with Ada. Emily, you should have guessed Gary’s biological father wasn’t Dragon, right? The person who brought her to Ireland in the first place had close ties to the Night Eagle.”
“All I know is that the man’s last name was Lawrence, and he died a few years ago. He was an Irishman who ran a casino. We knew about a few years ago, but we all thought this guy was just temporarily dating Ada at first,” Emily explained.
“Pretty much. Marcel Lawrence had several mistresses.”
“As for Gary…” Jasper revealed everything he had learned to everyone, “Ada returned to England a few years ago, wanting to bring Gary back to Ireland because she wanted Marcel’s inheritance. Marcel had just died, so Gary was Ada’s last hope. Marcel and his wife had five children, but all died unexpectedly. Gary was his only son.”
“Five?” Peace asked, “but what does this have to do with Night Eagle?”
“The head of Night Eagle is Victoria Burton, Marcel’s cousin. She has never been married and has no children. If I’m correct, she wants to take her nephew away and raise him to be the next leader of Night Eagle,” Jasper explained.
“Did all five of Marcel’s children die by accident?” Ryan asked.
“They definitely all went through rigorous training,” Jasper said, “And it’s possible they died in training or were assassinated. I’ve heard of things like that before.”
“She’s crazy, isn’t she? She’s been using her cousin and his mistresses, forcing them to keep having children. Plus, she treated those children cruelly,” Peace said.
Then Jasper continued, “Marcel didn’t want Victoria Burton to know anything about Gary, so he didn’t tell anyone about his relationship with Ada. Victoria would have learned about Gary sooner if Marcel hadn’t done that. By doing so, he was preventing her from taking his son away.”
“So why didn’t she just take Gary away? Why did she kidnap Matthew?” Emily asked.
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