Let’s start all over again,shall we?

Chapter 283 The Search

Maggie had lost consciousness. The man swiftly hoisted her over his shoulder and made his way toward a secluded restroom in the corner.

With a ceiling panel already removed, the man stepped onto the toilet seat and passed Maggie up into waiting hands–every move was swift and practiced, as if rehearsed a hundred times over.

Meanwhile, Nathael stool in the dimly lit corridor, awaiting her return. Time seemed to drag on, and after checking his watch, he noted it had been ten minutes.

Lighting a cigarette, Nathael continued to wait, growing increasingly restless.

As five more minutes passed without any sign of Maggie, a crease formed between Nathael’s brows. He tried calling her.

The phone rang for a moment with no answer.

A sense of unease gnawed at him, growing stronger with each passing moment.

Realizing that Maggie had been gone for too long and that the restroom showed no signs of activity, Nathael’s demeanor shifted.

He extinguished his cigarette and stormed into the restroom, calling out for Maggie.

“Maggie?”

To his dismay, the restroom was empty. Nathael’s expression turned grim as he forcefully pushed open several partially closed doors, finding no trace of her.

His eyes instructed, “Lock down the entire venue! Scrutinize everyone coming in and out!”

turned ice–co, 2nd a dangerous shade filled his eyes. He immediately called Nolan and

Recognizing the gravity of the situation, Nolan swiftly mobilized their team.

Since the university’s piano competition being a high–profile event and other programs happening nearby, scaling off the area amidst the dense and chaotic crowd posed a significant challenge.

“Bring the military in and frame it as a routine security check.”

still on the call, he directed Nolan to conduct a

into thin air after ten minutes in a

with a particular focus on the vehicles and suspicious individuals passing by from three to

“Understood, Mr. Harris.”

fell to the vanity below, a conch

the pearl’s

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for her today.

forced himself to remain calm. He clenched the earring so tightly in his palm that

Harris.” He stepped aside as Nathael’s piercing gaze

the furthest cubicle. Nolan had already sent someone to climb up the ceilling to check where it led.

in a conference room upstairs. There are traces of someone tampering with

frost, a hidden bloodlust flickering dark and deep within his eyes. His icy and suppressed aura was so

have to turn this

“Yes, Mr. Harris.”

she awoke, she found herself lying on a soft, expansive bed, unbound and

man–was someone she’d never

abducted me this

room for clues, a number

no recent discord between them significant enough to warrant a kidnapping, nor did she have

just met. If Sierra had planned this, she would have shown some sign

Beth? Joseph?

but Joseph had no apparent motive, while Beth had just quarreled with her. But to what

Maggie absorbed the

mountains, embraced by lush greenery and serene

the elite foreign mercenaries patrolling the area, they were few in number, yet each moved

heart sank a few, notches.

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seemed unlikely to be Beth’s doing; she was more inclined to inflict misery than provide such lavish

treatment.

through the mud to vent out her rage and make