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.

of Stella, battered and crumpled on the floor with one of the assailant standing over

Die!" the woman

hesitation, James barreled through the open

shot without thinking. The bullet passed through

to

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 gently. "Baby?" he called but

he

him.

seemed to be

could absorb all of her suffering and

men to deal with the rest. He could hear Stella whimper

might get injured

your eyes open!" he

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

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

her lying there, for some reason, a thought crossed his mind; what if she

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

and they had taken

had to be redirected back to the city so that James could

hotel docked and Stella was moved to the

solemn when Stella was settled in James' room. When James

mother father and grandfather

sighed and took a sit

two really married?" Ray asked and James raised

"Yes," he answered.

was dear his immediate family found out

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

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

Christopher said. To this, James agreed. But, in his defense, he did not know there would

Maria asked and James' face went dark. His reaction made his mother sigh and get up to

need to explain this to her, you just got her back," Maria said and walked

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