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.

his eyes were on a horribly familiar image of Stella, battered and crumpled on the floor with one of the assailant standing over her, repeatedly

Die!" the woman screeched like

barreled through the open doorway,

thinking. The

her to

his head as he let out two more shot,

his guards to fully restrain the other assallant before James scooped Stella's trembling form into his arms, cradling her gently. "Baby?" he called but she

I've got you," he murmured as she whimpered in

him.

to be slipping in and

her hair, wishing he could absorb all of her suffering

carried her out into the hallway, leaving his men to deal with the rest. He could hear Stella whimper slightly

she might get injured but seeing

your eyes open!"

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

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

there, for some reason, a thought crossed his mind; what

the

they had

hotel had to be redirected back to the

hotel docked and Stella was moved

Stella was settled in

his mother father and grandfather waiting

a sit before pouring himself

Ray asked and James raised a

"Yes," he answered.

It was dear his immediate family found out

they thought I was trying to use her as bait. What did you think was going to happen

Their enemies saw it as

do this either," Christopher said. To this, James agreed. But, in his defense, he did not

face went dark. His reaction made his mother sigh and

you just

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