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.

men attacking wildly, but 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 kicking and stomping in a crazed

Die!" the woman screeched

through the open doorway, his

his gun and shot without thinking. The

her to the

filled his head as he let out two more

to fully restrain the other assallant before James scooped Stella's trembling form into his arms, cradling her

I've got you," he

him.

to be slipping in and

absorb all of

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

am sorry baby," he apologized. When he had first 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,

baby. Keep your eyes open!"

to take her to

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

for some reason, a thought crossed his mind; what

while, the doctors returned to tell the family that she was fine but still

had been let go and they had taken their private

redirected back to the city so

docked and Stella was

and solemn when Stella was

stairs, he found his mother father and grandfather

and took a sit before pouring himself

Ray asked and James raised

"Yes," he answered.

why did you do it?" Marla asked. It was dear his immediate

swap her. Like you, they thought I was trying to use her as bait.

saw it as a chance. to move. It took a

have never used your godmother as balt. You must never do this either," Christopher said. To this, James agreed. But, in his defense, he did not know

she think you used her as bait?" Maria asked and James' face went

just got

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