She Took The House The Car And My Heart

Chapter 191

Chapter 191 Kristian Was

Drugged

Tm hurt?" Freya asked.

"A staff member said you fell earlier, and it looked serious." Kristian had come running the moment he got wind of it.

Freya stiffened, then suddenly pieced it all together.

Just as she opened her mouth to tell him, "You've been tricked," the door

slammed shut with a sharp bang. A figure in black-masked, hat pulled low-stood behind it.

The noise snapped Kristian's head around.

In that fleeting instant, something clicked. "You're okay?" he asked.

"I'm fine," Freya replied, her voice as composed as ever.

Hearing that, Kristian's shoulders eased slightly, and he turned back to the door, trying to open it.

(Freya's gaze fixed on the door. If Kristian actually managed to open it, she'd be stunned.

As expected, he yanked at it a few times, but it was sealed tight.

Kristian's brow furrowed. This room was more isolated than the others. Everyone else was downstairs on the first floor. Even if he pounded on the door, no one would hear a thing.

After a beat, he pulled out his phone to call for help-only to find he had no signal. Freya caught on too,

"No signal," Kristian muttered, his face clouding over.

"It's probably that man behind Ashley making his move," Freya said steadily. At most, they'd be stuck in here for two or three hours.

Once the banquet downstairs ended and her father noticed her absence, he'd come looking.

It was just a matter of riding out a few hours in the same space as someone she didn't exactly care for.

Kristian slipped his phone back into his pocket and started searching the room. Freya joined him. No signal meant something was jamming it.

that man, the device wouldn't be easy to find. He was

him, finding solid proof

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focused silence for ten minutes. Then, suddenly, a

through Kristian's body. He instinctively shrugged off his jacket and loosened the

heat refused to

paced a bit, then walked over to the air

watched him with a faint frown. Was it really

minutes crawled

deeper, wilder, more

Wait

realization hit

froze, focusing inward. His face darkened. He'd been

low and magnetic, thick with an edge

her wide eyes ringed with lashes, curious and watchful. She caught the look in his eyes and her brows creased. "What

your system?" Kristian asked, his voice

Freya blinked.

a higher tolerance for drugs, so her reaction was

she'd noticed when she first stepped inside, nothing had felt off-she'd been too focused on tracking the source

Kristian gave a warning. "Grab a towel, wet it, and cover your nose and

fix everything,

the flushed color in his

low,

purse, went into the bathroom, dampened it, wrung it out, and slipped it

out,

in front of her. His voice was rough

in."

Freya frowned.

and something happens, that'll be on you." Without waiting

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Kristian

moment later, the sound of running water

understood