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Johan ignored her words about another woman. “Did you have something to do with Corrine’s hand?”
“Wasn’t me.”
Larissa refused to admit it.
Juniper couldn’t stand it any longer. “Brother, enough,” she snapped. “Yunshu is your wife. You should care for her, not fight over Corrine here.”
She nced at Larissa’s swollen eyes, squared her shoulders. “I arranged for Corrine’s hand.”
“Serves her right. Knew you were engaged, still clung to you. Shameless.”
Johan didn’t believe Juniper. He already knew the truth.
“Larissa,” he said, voice icy. “Touch her again, and I won’t mind taking one of yours.”
He left coldly.
Larissa wanted to talk about Dillon.
But Johan had already left.
Larissa was on the verge of copse.
Juniper triedforting her, but Larissa kept crying.
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Finally, she confessed about the three hundred million.
Juniper gasped, “Three hundred million?”
Had Dillon lost his mind?
“Your brother clearly won’t help me. What should I do?”
Larissa clenched her fingers. “Dillon’s gone mad over my background.”
She dared not mention the past.
Juniper pondered, then brightened. “I’ve got an idea.”
Cecilia visited the factory after discussing Corrine’s surgery with the doctor.
She needed to inspect the perfume production line personally.
After seeing it, she formted a n.
During the drive back, Xiao Yu chattered excitedly, “Ms. Cecilia, you’re amazing! How did you secure this production line?”
It far exceeded their initial expectations.
Trial production could begin once materials arrived.
Cecilia smiled faintly, remaining silent.
Xiao Yu, an ordinary employee, knew nothing of her past as a
wealthy socialite or Wesley’s existence.
“Keep close tabs on the raw materials,”
Cecilia instructed.
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“Got it!”
Xiao Yu promised eagerly. “Don’t worry, Ms. Cecilia.”
Cecilia’s phone rang.
It was Corrine calling, her voice heavy. “Ci, Gwendolyn is missing.”
Cecilia’s heart lurched. She’d taken Gwendolyn along earlier when visiting Corrine, thinking the child might ease her friend’s loneliness. Her trip to the factory hadn’t evensted three hours; she’d nned to pick Gwendolyn up on her way back.
“Everywhere?”
“Yes. Gone. About three minutes ago, she ran out holding her toy ne. I thought she’de right back in. But when I went out to find her… she was gone.”
“Got it. I’ming now.”
Cecilia hung up, instructing Xiao Yu to head to the hospital.
Then she called the police.
Her car hadn’t reached the hospital when her phone rang again -an unknown number.
She knew. It was about Gwendolyn.
Sure enough, the voice on the other end was distorted, but the threat came through clearly.
He demanded Cecilia prepare three hundred million dors <b>to </b>ransom Gwendolyn. And no police.
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Gwendolyn. Kidnapped.
Cecilia’s heart hammered violently, yet she stayed remarkably calm. She recorded the call and handed the recording over to the police.
Once the police were briefed, she called Mr. Wilson. Could ha arrange a search for the child?
Mr. Wilson mobilized people immediately, also rying the news to Wesley.
Wesley stepped out of the conference room and called Cecilia.
“Ci.”
Gwendolyn’s been kidnapped.”
Cecilia’s tightly wound heart finally eased a fraction. The tears she’d been holding back throughout the journey finally fell.
It felt like she had an anchor.
Wesley soothed her, asking,/“Did the kidnappers call? What are their demands?”
“They want three hundred million dors.”
Cecilia choked out the words, thick with worry.
Three hundred million?
Wesley was instantly alert to that figure.
He instructed Elijah to investigate Dillon and <b>Larissa</b>.
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If his hunch was right, the kidnapping was connected to them, at least in part.
As it turned out, his guess was correct.
By the time the nended, Elijah had already received information about the child’s location.
However, the one who had kidnapped Gwendolyn wasn’t Dillon, nor Larissa, but Juniper.
She was young, so the kidnapping was sloppy, leaving a trail of clues everywhere.
When the bodyguards stormed in, Juniper was still dazed, unable toprehend how she’d been found so quickly.
Cecilia’s heart finally settled only when she saw Gwendolyn on the sofa.
“Gwendolyn, it’s alright. Mama’s here.”
Gwendolyn, thoroughly frightened, clung to Cecilia’s neck, refusing to let go, her eyes welling up with tears.
He’d just been running his toy ne down the hallway when someone grabbed him.
And after being brought here, thatdy had said so many strange things.
He was terrified.
Juniper was pinned by Wesley’s bodyguards, struggling <b>and </b>refusing to cooperate. “I only invited the child over to y.
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She said this because they were in the hotel’s finest suite. She had hidden Gwendolyn here, arranging snacks <i>to </i>create the illusion of peaceful coexistence.
Even if discovered, she had the perfect alibi ready.
“Save those words for the police,” Cecilia said coldly.
If Gwendolyn weren’t present, she’d have pped Juniper right
then.
Kidnapping a child? Unthinkable cruelty.
Juniper tried to speak but was swiftly escorted away by the bodyguards.