Clarence put the soup in front of her and said leisurely, “Tell me.”
Stella said, “Yesterday he went to the studio at noon. He was telling Elaine that he was going to take
her and leave City N, and that she shouldn’t tell us. She didn’t want to bother us. After all, he was her
most trusted and closest person, and plus she didn’t want to bring any trouble to us. So of course, she
thought that his words made sense.”
“Caesar and Elaine agreed that he would pick her up at 8pm, to bring her to a safer place. Caesar, as
Elaine’s uncle, seemed not out of place to be doing so. Even though they were in my studio at that
time, he was Elaine’s uncle, so I didn’t know what reason I should have stopped him for.”
“The strange thing about it is that Caesar purposely went at noon to tell Elaine about it. Even though he
knew that City N was dangerous, however, he didn’t take her away at that time. Instead, he told her to
wait until 8pm. But Sherry learnt about this and convinced Elaine to stay in City N first instead of going
with Caesar.”
“Not long after Caesar arrived, which was around 8 o’clock, those people came. That means that even
if Sherry didn’t make Elaine stay, when Caesar took her away, there was no way for them not to bump
into those people on the way out. Coincidentally, according to what Maxwell said, if those people hadn't
appeared suddenly, Caesar would have no chance to get Elaine out in the chaos with Maxwell and his
man on the spot.”
“My guess is, Caesar knew that you sent people to protect Elaine, in that case, there was no way for
him to finish his plans. So, he went to the studio to convince her to leave with him, and after Elaine
agreed, he planned the show at night.”
“But to make the show work, first he needed to be sure that Elaine was gonna leave with him.
Otherwise, if she didn’t cooperate, it would be problematic to carry out the plan. Sherry said, when
those people chased after them, it was a big mess. All her focus was on Elaine, and she didn’t know
what Caesar was doing.”
“In that situation, Elaine being taken away, Caesar was not as shocked as he should have been being
her uncle. That would only leave one possibility, which was, he never spoke once nor did he do
anything to stop those men during the process.”
After she finished, she suddenly felt a chill running down her spine.
She remembered that Sherry said when Elaine was taken, she was yelling for Caesar to send Sherry to
the hospital.
If that was the case, Elaine might still not know that the person who was staging all this, was her most
trusted uncle.
Clarence smiled, “Did you get all that in such a short time?”
Stella answered, “Since Maxwell told me about the situation last night, I had a feeling that something
was off, and with everything Sherry told me in the ward, the feeling got even stronger.”
As she said so, she paused and frowned, “But there's still something I don’t understand.”
“What is it?”
“If Caesar’s people already took Elaine, why would he... bring Sherry to the hospital? And he was here
all the time. This makes me doubt that my guess is not quite right.”
Clarence said, “What you are assuming is right. The reason why he brought Sherry to the hospital is
because he hadn’t gotten a chance to escape yet.”
Sherry paused, “Didn’t get a chance to escape?”
“Maxwell must have told you that they almost ran after them immediately, so Caesar didn’t have much
time. He took so long to work on this plan. Sherry was just an accident, but Elaine had to be taken
away. Since he put so much time and energy into this, it means that he didn’t want Elaine to know the
truth.”
Stella immediately understood, and felt her scalp was turning numb. “So he didn’t leave those
kidnappers. He waited till they were gone. But at that moment, Maxwell appeared, so he could only
pretend that he was talking Sherry to the hospital?”
Clarence nodded, “He had already gone so far, so clearly he couldn’t get away with it. He might as well
wait till we were back to find out the whole story, so that he could make himself off the hook.”
“So, where is he now?”
“I told him to go home.” Clarence said, “Since we want to know where Elaine is, we need to start from
him. That is the fastest way.”
Stella breathed in, quiet for a while before she said, “But what I am worried about is that Elaine being
kept from it all. Would something happen to her?”
Clarence said, “There is no need to worry, the reason why he took Elaine is probably because he wants
to do something in Riverside City. As long as they are in City N, Elaine will be safe.”
Stella opened her mouth to say something, but Clarence interrupted, “Eat your food, it's getting cold.”
Stella swallowed her words back and drank her soup, her mind floating elsewhere.
She was wondering how Elaine was doing.
...
On the other side, after Elaine was taken, the men had knocked her unconscious because she was not
cooperating and being loud all along.
When she woke up, she was in an unfamiliar room.
She slowly sat up, feeling the whole world was spinning around her.
Elaine shook her head hard. When she didn’t feel so dizzy anymore, she got off the bed, but because
her hands were tied, she could only kick the door, screaming, “Open the door! Open the door! Open the
door!”
After two minutes, the door was finally opened, the person who opened the door was the same guy as
last night.
He looked at Elaine without any expressions, “Miss James, you should control yourself. This is not your
own home.”
Elaine’s heart twitched, she was scared and took a few steps back, but she still gathered her courage
to say, “Even if this is not my home, you need to bring me something to eat, I am hungry and haven’t
eaten since last night. If you let me starve to death, my father and my great grandfather would never let
you get away with it!”
The man looked at the time, “What do you want to eat?”
Elaine especially asked for some special dishes of Riverside City, and she spoke in the proud manner
of a noble lady, “I want all of it, and some milk tea, room temperature without any ice.”
The man snorted, “Miss James, or maybe I should call you Miss Attitude. We don’t have any of that.”
“Then… what do you have?”
“Just eat what we have.”
As he said so, the man closed the door.
Elaine used all the strength to get back to the couch, while her hands were sweating.
Not long after, the door was opened again.
Looking at the food, she was quite sure that they were still in City N.
Leave alone everything else, she was a professional in food and drinks.
So she only need one glance to tell whether the food was from Riverside City food or from City
N.
“Just eat what we have.”
As he said so, the man closed the door.
Elaine used all the strength to get back to the couch, while her hands were sweating.
Not long after, the door was opened again.
Looking at the food, she was quite sure that they were still in City N.
Leave alone everything else, she was a professional in food and drinks.
So she only need one glance to tell whether the food was from Riverside City food or from City
N.
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