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.

were on a horribly familiar image of Stella, battered and crumpled on the

woman screeched like a

through the open doorway, his vision

and shot without thinking.

to

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

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

he murmured as she

him.

be slipping in

he could absorb all

the hallway, leaving his men to deal with the rest. He could hear Stella whimper slightly in his arms as he took her

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

Keep your eyes open!" he

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

medical team arrived. A large hotel like theirs would have a small hospital. But the Grey family had gone overboard and gotten experts. Stella was

crossed his mind;

doctors returned to tell the

guests had been let go and they

back to the city so that

and Stella was moved to

house was silent and solemn when Stella was settled in James' room.

his mother

and took a sit before pouring himself

you two really married?" Ray

"Yes," he answered.

did you do it?" Marla asked. It was dear his immediate family found out

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

it as a

do this either," Christopher said. To this, James agreed.

used her as bait?" Maria asked and James' face went dark. His reaction made

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

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