Desires Die Hard

Chapter 256

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“Do what you want, Ms. Xanders.” The old lady replied as she took a sip of tea. She then continued with a cold chuckle and said, “Let me just be absolutely blunt with you. If the cops can’t find anything. I’ll need you to leave immediately, Ms.

Xanders.”

As the old lady spoke, she took a quick glance at her daughter–in–law, Melissa, hinting at her to knock Anya unconscious,

Melissa got her hint and secretly snuck away to deal with Anya while Cindy contacted the authorities.

It seemed that Anya was still trying to pry the wooden plank open to escape. She could not believe that the MacMillans would be ruthless enough to do anything for their benefits. They were even willing to marry her off to the Xaviers.

Since they were capable to committing such a vile act, all she could do was think of a way to escape.

The plank was creaking loudly while Anya pulled. She was pulling so hard that her fingers were bleeding. However, she was only able to pry it loose by a tiny inch.

Anya was

not discouraged by this as she continued to pry it loose. However, she heard footsteps approaching the basement which startled her so much that she frantically covered the small door with the rugged bags before standing at a corner while she waited for the person.

take long for the basement’s door to

hostile to her, she kept her guard up before slowly inching backwards while staring at them. However, Melissa did not want to waste any time

wanted to escape. However, she was no

not take long for her to pass out. Melissa then approached her and slapped her face. She felt relieved when Anya did

than five

officers to search their room. However, since the police officers were unfamiliar with the mansion’s layout, they had no idea where the basement was after searching the area. Since they had no idea where the basement was, they could not search it. The police officers soon left after they were unable to find Anya with their rough sweep of

forced to leave and was unable to do a thing about those people. All she could do was return to her car in a frustrated

her cousin knew plenty of people, he would know what to do. Cindy frantically called Jamie after that. Jamie told her

was still in the MacMillan household but the only problem was that she

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Chapter 256

something to Anya. If that

do a stake out. She refused to believe that they would lock Anya

a missing person’s report and have the police

was finally done with his work and wanted to invite Anya out for dinner. Thus, he decided to give her a call, However, he realized that her phone

immediately after

time. Evan was puzzled by this. However, he did not think that she was being locked away by

his phone aside and invited Dan