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.

saw flashes of his men attacking wildly, but his eyes were on a horribly familiar image of Stella, battered and crumpled on the

Die!" the woman screeched like a

hesitation, James barreled through the open doorway, his vision

gun and shot without thinking. The

to the

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

assallant before James scooped Stella's trembling form into his arms, cradling her gently. "Baby?" he called but she did

he murmured as

him.

consciousness seemed to be slipping in and

he could absorb all of her suffering

into the hallway, leaving his men to deal with the rest.

apologized. When he had first made this plan, he knew she might get injured but seeing her

your eyes open!" he called to

need to take her to the clinic," Christopher

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

some reason, a thought crossed his mind; what if she

doctors returned to tell the family

had been let go and they had taken their private transport off the

redirected back to the

and Stella was

solemn when Stella was settled in James' room.

his mother father and grandfather waiting for

sighed and took a sit before pouring himself a

married?" Ray asked and James raised

"Yes," he answered.

it?" Marla asked. It was dear his

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

he had married Maria. Their enemies saw it as a

never used your godmother as balt. You must never do this either," Christopher said. To this, James agreed. But, in his defense, he

bait?" Maria asked and James' face went dark. His reaction made his mother sigh

just got her back," Maria

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