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.

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

woman screeched like a

barreled through the open doorway, his vision

and shot without thinking. The bullet passed through the

her to the

he let out two more

restrain the other assallant before James scooped Stella's trembling form into his arms, cradling her gently. "Baby?"

safe now, I've got you," he murmured as

him.

consciousness seemed to be slipping in and

stroked her hair, wishing he could absorb all of her suffering and agony into

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

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

baby. Keep your eyes open!"

are prepared. We need to take her to the clinic," Christopher

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

for some reason, a thought crossed his mind; what if she doesn't wake up?

returned to tell the family that she was

they had taken

to be redirected back to the city so

was moved

Stella was settled

his mother father and grandfather waiting

a sit before pouring himself a

you two really married?" Ray asked

"Yes," he answered.

dear his immediate family found out that

men did not swap her. Like you, they thought I was trying to use her as bait. What did you think was going to happen when people found out I was

Their enemies saw it as a chance. to move. It took a lot of work out eliminate people around

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

and James' face went dark.

to explain this to her, you just got

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