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Chapter 396
Chapter 396
He'd assumed she'd gone back to her room after her bathroom break, so he'd continued drinking up
until now, before heading upstairs.
Then a thought struck him! Could she have...run away?!
There was nothing but forest for over a hundred kilometers around!
How could she get out of the forest with her frail body?!
He clenched his fists tightly, spinning around to head downstairs.
"Mr. Bourne! I'll check the security footage right away to see when she escaped!"
The bodyguard immediately spoke up after realizing Violette was missing, "It's dark out there, there's
no streetlights, she couldn't have gotten far!"
"A bunch of idiots! Can't even keep an eye on a woman!" Elijah spat out between gritted teeth.
"I'm sorry! I'll send someone to find her right away! I promise we'll have her back before dawn!" The
bodyguard assured him with a terrified look on his face.
Elijah was completely sober!
He was more than sober now.
He even had a strong gutfeeling!
"She must have left before midnight! I came back from the bathroom before midnight and found her
gone, she must have escaped then!" He guessed, "Check the footage before midnight! There must
have been someone helping her! She couldn't have left this mansion alone!"
Bodyguard: "I was thinking the same thing."
All those who came to the event that night were Elijah's close friends.
They were the people Elijah had met when he made his first fortune. Although they didn't interact much
afterwards, they kept in touch.
On the first floor, people were still drinking.
Elijah's gaze was fixed on one person.
Before Violette disappeared that night, she was sitting next to this man.
He had initially thought she just picked a random place to sit, but now that she was gone... it indicated
she might have picked her spot deliberately.
In other words, she and this man might know each other.
"Did you let Violette go?" Elijah walked up to the man, taking the glass from his hand.
The man opposite looked up, his expression complex, but admitted, "I let her go."
Everyone turned to look at them.
"What's going on? You know Violette? Why'd you let her go? She's Elijah's woman!" Someone voiced
their confusion.
"It's simple," the man said, drunk but still lucid, "I owed her a favor. Tonight, she asked me to repay it.
Elijah, my apologies! I'd rather owe a favor to one of us than to a stranger."
Elijah gripped his glass tightly.
Eventually, the stem of the glass shattered in his grip! This is from NôvelDrama.Org.
"By letting her go, you're sending her to her death!" He growled, "Don't you know how dangerous it is
out there?!"
A chill flashed in Elijah's eyes.
As soon as the bodyguard finished speaking, Elijah clenched his fist, striding towards the back door.
He had every reason to suspect that she didn't escape so late at night to survive but to die.
After Elijah and the bodyguard left the hall, the tense atmosphere remained. Reаd at Draмanоvels.com
"Hey, why do you owe Violette a favor? Never heard you mention it before!" The man next to him asked
curiously, "Violette's just a regular businesswoman..."
"She's anything but regular," The man cut him off, "A woman that Elijah cares so much about, how
could she be ordinary?"
"So, Elijah cares about her not just for her looks and body?"
There was no proper path leading away from the back door of the mansion.