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“What? How did she escape?”
Lily began to make up lies: “After Aria gave me blood, she came back to life. Then, while I was still weak and the doctor was taking care of me, and you happened to be away, she ran…”
Hearing this, Lucas’s deep eyes instantly frosted over, a vein throbbing at his temple. He said coldly-
“Aria… Well, well. She’s grown wings now, daring to run away-”
Lily continued to add fuel to the fire: “She’s gone, and there’s no one to give me blood… I might die…”
Lucas comforted her, growing even angrier at me.
“Don’t worry, even if I have to dig three feet into the ground, I’ll find her!”
“When I do, I’ll make sure she experiences all ten of the manor’s cruelest punishments!”
But what he didn’t know was that I was already dead, my body discarded who knows where.
Digging three feet into the ground might only unearth my ashes.
After lulling Lily to sleep, Lucas didn’t stay the night with her. Instead, he went out directly, sending people to search for me throughout the
city.
He carefully examined the manor’s surveillance footage, trying to find any clues, but couldn’t see any trace of me.
Soon, his subordinates began their search across the city, especially at the city exits, docks, and airports, which were filled with his spies.
Lucas didn’t sleep all night, staying in my room, waiting for news of me.
He stroked my pillow, his voice low: “Aria, why didn’t you listen? It was just a blood transfusion, why did you run?”
The wound on his arm was still aching. Before, it was always me who helped him treat his wounds, carefully disinfecting them and then meticulously wrapping them with bandages.
But now, I wasn’t there.
Then, he picked up the pillow and smashed it against the wall.
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At five in the morning, the people who had been searching all night finally returned.
Lucas quickly went to meet them: “Where is she? Where?”
He was certain that a weak woman like me couldn’t have left the city.
These elite searchers must have results!
However, they just shook their heads: “Sorry, Mr. Turner, we couldn’t find any trace of Aria…”
Lucas instantly felt a surge of anger: “What are you good for! You can’t even find a defenseless woman!”
They quickly knelt down: “Mr. Turner! We really tried our best! But there was no trace of Aria at any of the checkpoints!”
“In that case, she must still be in this city! Hurry up and search every nook and cranny!”
“We’ve already sent people to search! We’ve practically turned the whole city upside down, but…”
Lucas suddenly felt a sense of anxiety and unease: “But what!”
“But… but we can’t find any trace of Aria in this city either…”
“She… it’s like she’s vanished into thin air…”
Lucas’s long fingers gripped the table tightly to keep from falling.
This time, they noticed that the wounds on his body hadn’t been treated.
“Mr. Turner, you should treat your wounds first!”
Lucas waved his hand and roared: “Get out and keep searching!”
He waited a whole day, until nightfall, before they returned.
“Mr. Turner, we still couldn’t find any trace of Aria.”
Lucas suddenly became furious. His eyes instantly turned as cold as an ice cellar, but his pupils burned with angry flames!
“This woman! What kind of tantrum is she throwing! How dare she hide somewhere I can’t find!”
Then, he picked up his phone to call me.
He rarely contacted me on his own initiative. This time, by reaching out first, it was as if he was lowering his head.
But no matter how many times he called, the calls were always rejected!
“Aria! You’ve really grown bold! You dare to hang up on my calls!”
He angrily smashed his phone, shattering it instantly.
His subordinate quickly reminded him: “Mr. Turner, maybe Aria just can’t answer the phone right now. You could send her a message…”
But Lucas erupted in anger: “Why should I? Isn’t it enough that I’ve called her? She wants me to send her a message too?”
The subordinate timidly asked: “Mr. Turner… should we keep looking for her?”
Lucas was already at his wit’s end: “What’s there to look for! She dares to throw a tantrum at me, hanging up my calls. No one has ever dared to hang up on me!”
“From now on, no one is allowed to look for her! Let her throw her tantrum! We’ll see who gives in first!”
