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!”

Cassius’s eyes blazed with fury, his

weak in the knees that he almost knelt, “President Ashbourne, we’ll start searching

in the shadows, and don’t alert Chairman Emeric just yet–no need to worry him.

bel

The A

scattered, combing through the

pleasantries and promptly set out

the eldest brother, he felt almost a paternal responsibility. He couldn’t just

either; with her fiery temper, she might well turn William and his son’s entire party upside down in her

be safe!

echoed urgently down the hallways. Cassius, his face beaded with sweat, he

but was

an abrupt stop when he faintly heard a

the sound to the balcony.

Nydia’s phone lay abandoned on the ground, the screen displaying

are you?

shouted from the balcony, but

Brother, how can Nydia disappear just like that?”

Thaddeus rushed over, 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

was aflame within him, his tears mingling with blood from his wounded eye. He was neared

all my fault, I was too careless! Cassius exclaimed,

tired of living” Thaddeus said, grasping Evadne’s trembling shoulders, his thin

Cassius’s avas

send

waste, the more danger Nydia faces!”

a high–performance computer. I’ll hack into the system myself! Forget about mere surveillance–l can bring the whole castle’s security network down if

and Jason had been too

hacker, her skills trained by the legendary agent Elvis; she

a surge of intense admiration

was nothing short of divine.

have been used to it by now.

had someone bring the best–performing laptop available on

she intently watched the screen, her delicate fingers dancing across the

right behind her, with their eyes glued to her moves as if watching the final moments of the

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,

in military academy, Thaddeus had aced every course, and he knew something about hacking too, but next to Evadne,

the screen flickered and

next

by several cameras, was entwined with a man. And that man, who had been flirting with

snake!” Thaddeus’s eyes blazed

truly eerie was Nydia’s attitude toward Byron.

eyes and

willingly wrapping her arms around the man’s waist, resting

Voices!

relationship was oozing with

breath, a

really true, Nydia and Byron?”

shaking in denial. “That can’t be true. How could Nydia

all know what kind of person Nydia is. There’s

guest area. After turning a corner, the two disappeared

it! Byron’s making his move on Nydial We’ve got to stop him now! Cassius was usually

crumbling, overwhelmed by a torrent

dared lay a finger on his beloved, he’d make him pay. If he couldn’t kill him, he’d make his life

for

he wouldn’t love her any less. He’d steadfastly

happened, in his eyes, she’d always be the epitome of

such a brutel If I had known his vile intentions for Nydia, I

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