Chapter 544

"I'm not that stupid." Cedrick's lips curled into a cold sneer. "This whole thing is plotted against me, not her. They want to use her to make me give up on everything I have, do they? Let's see if they have what it takes."

Charles was shocked at first, but he soon realized what he meant. " You're trying to buy more time?"

"Record a short video of me, and if the kidnapper calls again, just tell him that I'm summing up my assets. The rest will follow me into the forest."

"Master Cedrick, let me do that!" volunteered Alex.

He had been given the cold shoulder for the past few days, and he had to help, seeing as Catelyn was caught in a dangerous predicament.

Cedrick glanced emotionlessly at him. "If I need you to rescue my woman, what kind of a man would I be?"

"But it's dangerous, and we don't know who the kidnappers are!" Alex's face flushed with frustration as he tried to convince Cedrick.

"Please let me make up for the mistake I made. I'll bring Miss Clark back!"

a big area, so you'll have

commanded the team to spread out and entered the forest in small groups. He reminded every person that they were to not alert the

they found Catelyn.

passed, and the two kidnappers were still playing poker outside

heels and jumped out of the window. Because she had been kicked in the knee by Scarface earlier, however, she felt as though her

was insufferable, but she refused to even stop for

took a deep breath and

were also paying

when you were winning, and now that you've lost, you don't want to pay

your fault! Stop talking! That

them cursing behind her. Not daring to look back, she forced herself

just rained, and the area was covered in trees. The roads were uneven with small pools of

into a narrow trail, stumbling, wishing that she could be invisible

trees and leaves scratched her skin as she ran, and her

there,

second as she listened to the approaching sound of

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