Chapter 473

Having been made to feel slighted by Byron’s inappropriate advances, Nydia didn’t dare to confide in her father or her elder brother. With a flushed face holding back tears, she hurriedly left the bustling banquet hall,

As she moved through the crowd, she was bumped by a waiter.

Suddenly, she felt a sting on her arm, like the prick of a bee, but the pain quickly faded.

“Oh, I’m terribly sorry, Miss,” the waiter quickly apologized.

“It’s okay.”

Nydia didn’t think much of the incident and quickly walked away.

The waiter watched her leaving, with a smirk on his face.

The evening breeze gently ruffled Nydia’s soft hair, as she stood alone on a deserted balcony, gazing at the chilling moonlight and quietly wiping away her tears.

If only Jason were here, he wouldn’t have let her suffer the slightest grievance or injustice.

But she had made up her mind to endearingly let go; from now on, Jason would no longer be a part of her life.

So, should she make one last call to him, to say everything that needed to be said, to bring closure to it all?

After much contemplation, Nydia, enduring the acute pain in her heart, tremblingly turned on her phone.

The signal connected. And in an instant, countless missed call alerts and messages flooded her screen.

Jason had never stopped trying to reach her. His every word was filled with deep emotion.

Nydia clutched at the stifling ache in her chest, where her heart seemed to be broken into pieces. She bit her lips bitten until they bled, unable to stop the steady stream of tears.

“Jason. I don’t want to be apart from you.”

Suddenly, her tear–blurred vision darkened, and her body swayed dangerously, and she began to falter.

“Nydia, what’s wrong?”

A voice of concern reached her. Nydia’s mind was muddled, and buzzing noises filled her ears.

The next moment, she was harshly pulled by someone into a tight embrace.

She could even feel the intrusive hand caressing her shoulder inappropriately.

“Who are you, Don’t touch me!”

Nydia’s body shivered, and although she tried to struggle, she found herself without the strength to do so, her eyes filling with tears of panic

“Heh, don’t be nervous, relax,” the man said with a sinister laugh, his lips brushing against the cheek he’d long coveted. “I’ll take good care of you.”

Meanwhile, Cassius acted as President K, playing the role of negotiator amongst the privileged elites.

While he was still mingling with the guests, a bodyguard who had been following Ms. Nydia came running over, sweating profusely, and pulled Cassius aside.

“Bad news, President Ashbourne. Ms. Nydia is missing!”

Cassius felt his heart tightened with worry, his handsome face darkened. “How could that be? With such high security here, and you tailing her every move, how could my sister just disappear?”

“She was within our sight at first. Nydia was sitting there talking to Byron.”

Byron?

Cassius had a sudden ominous feeling, and his eyebrows furrowed.

The bodyguard, panic–stricken and wiping sweat, said incoherently. “But then a crowd passed by from the dance floor, and suddenly she disappeared! Byron is gone too!”

blazed with fury, his

terrified, was so weak in the knees that he almost knelt, “President

with a visible vein, his voice hoarse with contained rage. “Search in the shadows, and don’t alert Chairman Emeric just yet–no need to worry him. If my sister isn’t found before the banquet ends, consider what your

bel

The A

combing through the castle in

mood for pleasantries and

he felt almost a paternal responsibility. He couldn’t just

fiery temper, she might well turn William

please be safe!

the hallways. Cassius, his face beaded with sweat, he dialed Nydia’s number while running.

rang but was not

Cassius came to an abrupt stop when he faintly heard a

heart pounding, he followed the

abandoned on the ground, the screen displaying

are you? Nydial”

shouted from the balcony, but there

how can Nydia disappear just like

followed by an injured Jason, “This place is under tight security, and we have records of all guests. How can Nydia just vanish? I don’t buy it! She must be somewhere in this castle, she couldn’t have left this place!”

with blood from his wounded eye.

was too careless! Cassius exclaimed, punching his fists against the railing in

Thaddeus said, grasping Evadne’s trembling shoulders, his thin

Cassius’s avas

were red with anger, “I’ll send someone to get it right away!

The more time we waste, the

me a high–performance computer. I’ll hack into the system myself! Forget about mere surveillance–l can bring the

Jason had been too tense to

by the legendary

surge of intense admiration in his

was nothing short of divine.

been used to it

best–performing laptop

as she intently watched the screen, her delicate fingers

in close together, hunched over right behind her, with their eyes glued to her moves as if

that might as well have been hieroglyphs to the untrained eye. A flurry of green code flashed across the screen. While it seemed like a blur to the onlooker, she effortlessly decoded and bypassed

aced every course, and he knew something about hacking too, but next to

flickered and switched to a live surveillance feed.

next stunned

caught by several cameras, was entwined with a man. And that man, who had been flirting with her throughout, was none other

snake!” Thaddeus’s eyes

was truly eerie was Nydia’s attitude

eyes and ringing

around the man’s waist, resting in his embrace

Voices!

oozing with oddly intimacy.

breath, a shiver coursing

true,

in denial. “That can’t be true. How

what kind of person Nydia is. There’s got

saw Nydia and Byron headed to the top–floor guest

his move on Nydial We’ve got to stop him now! Cassius was usually calm and composed, but now he was freaking out.

world was crumbling, overwhelmed by a torrent

a finger on his beloved, he’d make him pay. If

prepared for the worst

was no longer pure, he wouldn’t love her any less. He’d

she’d always be

by such a brutel If I had known his vile intentions for Nydia, I should have let him die on the operating table!”

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