“Sure,” the departmental manager replied with an affirmative hum and continued his presentation.
Nonetheless, everyone else in the meeting room could no longer focus on their work as they secretly
winked at each other in an ambiguous manner. Now that they had been taken over by their gossipy
nature, they were all dying to know who Toby was talking so gently to over the phone. After all, he had
never been so tender to anyone except Tina, but ever since she was sentenced to prison, no one had
ever seen him being this gentle again. Thus, when they noticed Toby’s expression, they couldn’t help
but wonder whether he was in a new relationship. Tsk! Tsk! That’s sooner than expected.
Now that he was the receipt of everyone’s visual banters, Toby knew what they were thinking.
Nonetheless, he wasn’t mad at all but rather happy to see them misunderstanding the situation. “That’s
enough. Pay attention to the presentation right now.”
He knocked on the table after a brief murmur of gossip. Deep down in his heart, he couldn’t wait to
finish the meeting sooner so that he could head over to the hospital to visit Sonia as he wanted to be
the first person she saw when her eyes recovered.
On the other hand, everyone else straightened their posture when they snapped out of their fantasies
as soon as they heard his warning.
In the meantime, at the First World Hospital, Wanda kept her phone away and returned to the hallway
outside the CT scan room, where she sat on the bench and waited for Sonia to emerge.
Half an hour later, Wanda immediately stood up from her seat when she saw Tim and Sonia leaving the
room. “Miss Reed.”
“Wanda,” Sonia replied.
Wanda turned her attention to him and asked, “How is she, Dr. Lancaster?”
“The blood clot is completely gone and she’ll have full vision probably by tomorrow. In fact, she could
start to see things clearly today,” he explained with both of his hands in his pocket.
She happily exclaimed, “Oh, that’s definitely music to our ears!”
“Alright, we should take you to ophthalmology now for a check-up,” Tim said.
“Sure.” Sonia responded with an affirmative hum as Wanda seized her arm and followed them both to
the ophthalmology department.
It was already close to the afternoon after the multiple check-ups when Sonia collected her medicine
from the dispensary and was ready to leave. At the same time, a worried Wanda couldn’t stop looking
at her phone while wondering what took Toby so long to show up. Where is Young Master Toby? Miss
Reed is about to make a move soon.
“Wanda? Wanda?” Sonia was waiting for Wanda to seize her arm but received no response as if the
woman was not there. Failing to feel her caretaker’s presence, Sonia began to panic because she
didn’t know what to do as a visually impaired person if Wanda wasn’t around.
Soon, Wanda heard Sonia’s fearful voice and immediately responded by looking over. “I’m here, Miss
Reed.”
Wanda’s voice was like a soothing lullaby that calmed Sonia’s restless heart. She then took a deep
breath and questioned Wanda in a dissatisfied manner, “Where did you go, Wanda?”
“I didn’t go anywhere, Miss Reed. I was just too absorbed in my thoughts and I’m sorry about that.”
Wanda apologized.
“It’s okay, let’s go now.” Sonia rubbed her forehead.
Wanda nodded silently while letting out a sigh. It seems that Young Master Toby is going to have to
wait for another chance to see Miss Reed. Then, she walked with Sonia all the way from the hospital’s
exit to the car park where she reached for the car keys and said, “Miss Reed, please stay still while I
open the car door.”
“Alright.” Sonia nodded.
Soon, Wanda pushed the button on her car key to unlock the car door before opening it. However, as
she was about to help Sonia enter the car, a van suddenly approached them at lightning speed and
abruptly pulled up beside them.
As soon as the door was open, two emotionless and muscular men sprang from the van and grabbed
Sonia while covering her mouth before they dragged her into the vehicle. Wanda, along with the other
bystanders, were dumbstruck by what they saw in the face of the unexpected turn of events. After all,
no one thought something that they watched in the movies would happen in reality, let alone expect a
kidnapping to occur in broad daylight.
At that moment, every witness froze in their tracks and watched the abduction whereas Sonia had fear
written all over her pale face. What’s going on? Who is doing this? Who is trying to kidnap me?
Needless to say, her questions were left unanswered as she didn’t bother to ponder about it because
she wasn’t so calm as to continue thinking about it now that her safety was in jeopardy.
“Hmm...” Sonia tried to shout in a muffled voice but failed to make herself heard. Thus, she could only
watch with saucer eyes as she futilely struggled to break free from the two muscular men. Nonetheless,
her desperate effort to escape only proved to be in vain when the kidnappers continued to show no
signs of releasing her. Now that she was at her wits’ end, she turned her attention to her surroundings
and made as much noise as she could, in the hope that she could draw Wanda’s attention to rescue
her.
Upon hearing Sonia’s muffled cry, Wanda snapped out of her trance and shouted, “What are you guys
doing?! Let Miss Reed go or I’m going to call the cops!”
Wanda! When Sonia heard Wanda’s voice, she saw a glimmer of hope that she was about to be
rescued and cried even louder in her muffled voice. However, the kidnappers weren’t intimidated by
Wanda’s warning as they continued to drag Sonia into the van.
As Sonia was about to be dragged away, Wanda quickly approached the abductors to interfere. “I told
you to release her! Didn’t you hear me?! What you’re doing is against the law, so let go of—” Before
she could finish her words, a huge palm landed on her shoulder, whereupon she felt herself jolting
backward. It didn’t take long for Wanda to realize that she had been shoved aside as she painfully fell
onto the ground. Her face paled a moment later and it was covered by cold sweat as she struggled to
get back on her feet.
Although Sonia was unable to see what had happened, she could tell from Wanda’s painful moan that
she had been violently treated. At the same time, she was able to feel one of the kidnappers releasing
his right hand, which she reckoned was the same hand that he used to hit Wanda.
At the thought of that, Sonia became worried because Wanda was in her advanced years and too old
to put up a fight. Furthermore, she was concerned that in her attempt to stop the kidnappers, Wanda
could become severely injured.
As Sonia expected, her worst fear came true when she felt two hands restraining her ankles, although
one of the abductors had released her right hand earlier. Then, she felt those two hands hoisting her up
before she felt herself levitating in the air.
“Ugh...” She violently shook her head and struggled by kicking in all directions as her fear suffocated
her. What are these guys doing?!
Meanwhile, the two abductors became annoyed with Sonia’s struggle and they became even more
aggressive. One of them proceeded to tighten his grip around her ankle to hurt her as a gesture of
warning. Besides, he also glacially threatened,, “If you keep squirming, I’m going to crush your ankle
and leave you crippled!”
When she heard tha man’s words, Sonia froze in terror. Did they just say that they’ll crush my ankle?!
Although those words might have sounded like a bluff, she had no doubt about what those kidnappers
were capable of doing. While she reckoned Tina was the worst person she had ever dealt with, she
was sure that there was someone else worse out there in the world.
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