MISTAKE 198

Chapter 198: Retrieving Stella

"Son, Stella, she..." Christopher started to say.

"Why is my nephew there?" Ray asked a they all looked at the satellite footage with a frown. Lenny walked into a car and drove off.

Five minutes later, James's drone dropped a bomb on the compound, sending it to flames.

They all saw right. It was Lenny.

But James had other problems. Stella was still being held.

He ordered his men to storm the wing they were holding Stella.

He had this bad feeling in his gut about the entire operation.

Within minutes, his men covered the wing easily. They took out the perpetrators so easily that Christopher glanced at James with a frown. He needed no telling that James was already prepared. This entire situation was James's trap. As the operation started, James walked out of the surveillance room and made his way towards. the wing.

"You have the wing already covered, huh?" Christopher asked following him.

James clenched his jaw, knowing his father already figured this was a trap.

His comms told him Stella was in the room. James almost lost his mind. Stella? Didn't they swap her?

He could not concentrate on this now. His mind was focused on Stella.

He could only hope they arrived in time before anything more traumatic happened to Stella.

He watched as the strike team moved into position, high-tech weapons raised.

They crept down the dimly lit hallway towards the doors.

A woman's deranged shouts and Stella's anguished cries.

With a concussive bang, the door was blown open and mayhem erupted.

battered and crumpled on the floor with one of

Die!" the woman screeched

through the

pulled his gun and shot without thinking. The bullet passed through

to the

filled his head as he let out two more shot, Bitting her shoulder

took three of his guards to fully restrain the other assallant before James scooped Stella's trembling form into his arms,

now, I've got you," he

him.

consciousness seemed to be slipping

he could absorb all of her suffering and

carried her out into the hallway, leaving his men to deal with the

made this plan, he knew she might get injured but seeing her actually injured broke his soul. When he saw that she was slipping away,

your eyes open!" he called to

We need to take her to the clinic," Christopher reminded the

a small hospital. But the Grey family had gone overboard and gotten experts. Stella was soon left to them with James

lying there, for some reason, a thought crossed his mind; what if she doesn't

to tell the family that she was

go and they had taken their private transport

the city so that

Stella was moved

house was silent and solemn when Stella was settled in James' room. When

he found his mother

a sit before

married?" Ray asked and James raised a

"Yes," he answered.

was dear his immediate family found out that

they thought I was trying to use her as bait. What did you think was going to happen when people found out I was married?"

as a chance. to move. It took a lot of work

must never do this either," Christopher said. To this, James agreed. But, in his defense, he did not know

James' face went dark. His reaction made his mother sigh and

to explain this to her, you just got her

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