Chapter 310

“Nice driving,” Alexander complimented Gai. “If you hadn’t reacted so quickly, we could have gotten seriously injured.”

“Honestly, boss, I was just worried about your expensive car. I could never pay to get it fixed,” Gai admitted.

Olivia let out a surprised chuckle and a reluctant smile tugged on Alexander’s lips.

“Don’t worry,” he said as he took off his seatbelt. “I have insurance.”

He got out of the car to confront the idiot who had cut them off. Once Olivia got a good look at the car, she gasped.

It was Ethan’s red BMW.

“That’s Reed!” she told Alexander before he could get out of the car. “He’s Ethan’s driver. Let me talk to him. I can try to deescalate the situation.”

Alexander had already opened his door. He was considering her offer, wondering what the right call was. After a tense moment, he reluctantly shut his door.

Reed–a burly man with a bushy red beard–walked up to the passenger window. Olivia rolled it down and fixed a smile on her face, trying to remain calm.

“Hi, Reed!” she said, her voice much higher than normal. “We just left Ethan. He’s in the bamboo forest. He sent us away, saying that he needed some time alone.”

his eyes suspiciously, but Olivia was already rolling

to Gai, who

the fancy Rolls–Royce drive away, his shoulders slumped in relief. He waited on a bench by the bamboo forest. Reed was sure his boss would come out soon. He believed Olivia. She had


began to grow uneasy. He kept spinning around to look at the forest, but he was deathly afraid of the dark, and he wanted to stay on the sidewalk where there were streetlights. But now it was the middle of the night and his

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out of the forest.

he saw a school security guard–identifying him because he was dressed

walkie–talkie. Reed stood and walked over

cap

his

was last seen in the

he never came

and frowned. Fear shot through him when Reed was finished. His boss would be pissed if a man was lost when he was on duty. “Come on,”


whipped through their hair, the two men’s eyes scanned the forest. But there was no sign of

got to the clearing and found Ethan sitting in the middle

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