Hiding Behind Her Superficiality by Kyla Olson

Chapter 578 Search Came Up Empty

“But…”

Bobby looked conflicted.

“Why can’t you open up the place? I demand to be let in. If you don’t open up, you can say goodbye to your company tomorrow.”

Welson never minced words, and Bobby knew he couldn’t stop Welson, so he had to retrieve the key and unlock the gate to allow entry.

As soon as they walked into the courtyard, Welson saw Haris sitting leisurely at the stone table by the gate.

“What’s going on? What brings you here, Mr. Harley?” Haris sipped from his cup of tea. He didn’t seem upset that an outsider had barged into his place. Instead, he pointed at the stool next to him and suggested, “Why don’t you enjoy a cup of tea with me?”

Welson snorted. “I’m not in the mood to sit around and have tea with you. Hurry up and tell me where you hid the two of them.”

“The two of them?”

Haris set his cup down and pretended to exclaim in shock, “You shouldn’t throw such false accusations around, Mr. Harley. No one came here.”

“Let me search the place and we’ll see whether it was a false accusation.”

Welson couldn’t be bothered to play nice. With a wave of his hand, the men beside him immediately went around searching the courtyard.

After a quick search, they reported back saying they didn’t find anyone.

Welson couldn’t help but frown. Was I wrong about this?

Nevertheless, he’d personally witnessed Elspeth entering the place using the hidden passage, and judging by the location, he was fairly certain it had to lead into this courtyard.

Why haven’t we found anything yet?

you, Mr. Harley. There’s no one

Haris shrugged helplessly.

displeased by the fact

need to search the place

confident now that

gave you permission to search the place and you didn’t find anything, so why are you still

look as if he were hellbent on accusing them of a crime

He had to stop.

you like to rest here for the night, Mr. Harley, or would you be returning home?” Bobby asked courteously. He was still too afraid

threw Bobby an icy

Bobby exhaled in relief.

his fury colored his expression. “What on earth are you doing? You can’t even do one

to barge in all of a sudden, Dad? You saw him. He would surely find a way to ruin us in

now, but since he just did his search, it’s unlikely that

kidnap both Helia Joneson and her

seeing Welson’s reaction today, he had

need to bother with that. All you need to do is just let me know in advance if he

kidnapping is no joke. If you get caught, you’d be sent to prison. You better be

you to tell me

put it that way, Bobby couldn’t

enough. You can leave now if there’s nothing

Bobby sighed and left.

Haris was the only one left in the large

eyes glittered as he quickly made his way over to the inner room and unlocked the

wasn’t worried about entering alone as the hidden room had been drugged with muscle relaxants that immobilized everyone inside. He’d taken

found Elspeth leaning against a block of stone. She

He slowly walked over to her and smiled. “I can’t bear to turn you into a drug tester. If you’re willing to become my

side in thought before exclaiming in feigned shock, “Does that mean you’ll let me

my disciple stay in a

that he was only trying to hide his true

simply wanted to numb her mind momentarily before