Carter had arrived before Shirley could utter the last word.
It turned out that Carter’s goal was her from the beginning, and the children were just a cover.
He had deliberately made them think that way so that Niamh would neglect her own safety.
“I’ll take you back to St. Piaf now. Kendrick may not be able to find you, or maybe he’ll soon learn that I have taken you away, but it’ll useless. Because by then, you will already have been brainwashed by me and you will be obeying all of my orders.”
Carter spoke with absolute confidence as he said this.
Judging from what he said, he was determined to mind control Niamh.
However, Niamh would not give Carter such an opportunity no matter what. She did not want to let Kendrick, unable to find her, experience the anxiety and uneasiness of not knowing whether she was safe or not.
Carter’s strength, however, was so great that Niamh was nearly immobilized in his arms.
“Eveline, I’m bringing you downstairs now, but if you dare resist or shout, you will never see your secretary again.”
Carter threatened and then he gave the bodyguard a look.
The bodyguard came over and took out a pair of sunglasses and a coat.
This meant they wanted Niamh to change to prevent her from being recognized by others.
“Change your coat and put on the sunglasses,” Carter demanded.
Niamh glanced at Coco, who was innocently encumbered, and glared at Carter with blazing eyes. “Let go of your hand and I will wear it myself.”
Carter, who had always admired Niamh’s boldness the most, let go of Niamh’s hand.
Niamh promptly took off her coat and put on the new coat and glasses as per Carter’s instructions.
Carter, very satisfied when he looked at Niamh’s current outfit, then gave the bodyguard another look.
Niamh thought Carter was going to just let her follow him, but in the next second, she heard the fire alarm.
After a while, the people in every hotel room ran out one after another. Since they did not know where the fire started, everyone was running toward the fire escape stairs. The scene was very chaotic.
Carter then smiled at Niamh unhurriedly. “It’s time to go.”
Niamh glanced at Carter. The man was beyond devious.
In such a chaotic situation, even if Kendrick were to ask for the security footage, it might still be difficult to locate her.
The monitoring system on this floor might have already been destroyed by Carter.
After the morning meeting, Kendrick habitually went to the office to find Niamh.
Halfway through, however, he suddenly remembered that Niamh was meeting with clients today.
He looked at the time and thought that Niamh should still be in the meeting with the clients, so he did not call to bother her and he just sent her a message.
After a moment’s wait, there was no response from Niamh. Although Kendrick was a little disappointed, he went to work first.
Time passed silently. After Kendrick finished with the things at hand, he glanced at his silent Whatsapp chat and felt inexplicably perturbed.
It was almost noon, and even if Niamh were still in a discussion, he felt that Niamh would still reply to him.
Kendrick, not giving it further thought, called her directly, but he found that Niamh’s mobile phone was turned off.
Did it run out of battery?
Impossible.
He would charge Niamh’s mobile phone every night.
An uneasy feeling slowly emerged from the bottom of his heart. Knowing that Niamh also brought her secretary, Coco, along, Kendrick immediately asked for Coco’s contact number and called her hurriedly.
The call went through, but no one answered.
Kendrick called again quickly, and someone finally picked up after the third call.
“Is this Coco?” Kendrick asked as calmly as he could.
On the other end of the line, Coco woke up in a daze. She looked at her surroundings with a fazed look and she felt that everything around her was unfamiliar.
The silence on the other end of the line further made Kendrick uneasy, so he asked immediately.
“Coco, do you hear me? I’m Kendrick Waldburg, is Nia with you? Where are you now?”
Coco was still very confused, but when she heard that the person on the other end of the line was claiming to be Kendrick, she immediately sobered up.
“M-Mr. Waldburg, this is Coco. Ms. Montgomery and I are in the hotel discussing matters with the clients, but…”
As Coco spoke, she looked at the empty room before her, then remembered what happened before she fainted, and she was at a loss.
“Send me your address, right now!” Kendrick demanded, rushing out of the office quickly.
In about twenty minutes, Kendrick arrived at the hotel where Coco was in.
As soon as he got into the hotel, Kendrick saw fire trucks parked there.
Kendrick became more uneasy. “Nia.”
Worried that something might have happened to Niamh, he quickly ran into the hotel. However, as soon as he arrived at the door, he was stopped by a staff.
“Sir, it’s dangerous inside. The fire has not been extinguished. Please wait outside.”
“My wife is in the hotel. Do you think I can wait?” Kendrick pushed the staff who stopped him and rushed in immediately.
Coco, who was still dazed, got up to wash her face. She did not know that there was a fire happening outside. When she was about to sit down and think about what happened, she heard a rapid knocking on the door.
Coco hasten over to open the door and saw Kendrick with a hurried look on his face.
“Mr. Waldburg.”
“Where’s Nia?” Kendrick rushed into the room, but after looking all over the room, he did not see Niamh.
“Isn’t Nia with you? Where is she?” Kendrick’s heartbeat started to beat frantically.
Coco looked at Kendrick with a confused and nervous look on her face, then explained.
“At the time, Ms. Montgomery said that there was a document left in the car and asked me to go down with her to get it, but as soon as I reached the entrance, I felt unwell, and then I didn’t know what happened next. When I woke up, I was on the bed… I think Ms. Montgomery might be the one who helped me to the bed…”
Kendrick listened to what Coco said but his eyes were firmly fixed on the two glasses of lemonade on the coffee table in the living room.
“Did you drink this?” he asked.
Coco nodded. “I only had a couple of sips.”
“What about Nia? Did she drink it?”
“No, ” Coco replied affirmatively. “After I drank the lemonade, Ms. Montgomery said that she wanted to head down and get the documents with me.
As Coco spoke, she touched her head and tried to recall. “Now that I think about it, Ms. Montgomery seemed to be very anxious at the time…”
Kendrick’s heart pounded rapidly upon hearing this.
Without any need for guesswork, he was certain that Niamh must be in some sort of trouble now.
Kendrick turned and strode toward the door of the room. When he reached the hallway, he suddenly stopped and subconsciously looked toward the carpet.
Coco, who did not know what Kendrick had seen, only saw him suddenly kneeling as if to pick something up from the corner of the carpet.
She walked over for a look, then she could not help but exclaimed in surprise, “Isn’t this Ms. Montgomery’s ring?”
Kendrick furrowed his thin eyebrows tightly; his eyes were full of worry.
This was Niamh’s ring.
She had never taken off the ring ever since they reconciled.
Now that the ring was here, it was clearly a hint from Niamh to Kendrick.
She was indeed in trouble.
“Go back to the company right now and immediately send me the information on the man and woman you met today.”
Kendrick commanded as he kept his cool.
Coco nodded immediately. When she walked out of the room, she realized that there was a fire outside.
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