Filed to story: A Second Chance with My Billionaire Love
She leaned against the back seat in slight boredom. When she checked the time, it was coincidentally afternoon at Beach City. The two children might have gone home from school by now, so she gave her brother a video call.
His brother always answered her calls within seconds. But strangely, today, he did not answer her calls at all. She tried repeatedly, but it yielded the same result.
“What’s the matter?”
A crease soon formed between her brows as a bad premonition overwhelmed her.
She immediately called Margaret, and the latter picked it up just as quickly.
“Miss Flossie, what a coincidence! I was about to call you.”
Similarly, Margaret had a deep frown on the other end of the phone. Anxiety was her friend now.
“Margaret, you sound so anxious. Did… something happen?”
“Yes, Miss Flossie. I don’t know whether I should report this to you or not. Both Chase and Miss Lei asked me not to tell you first for fear that you’ll be worried…”
“What’s wrong? Tell me now.”
“It’s like this. Mr. Ellsworth went to the south for a business trip a week ago. He should be back two days ago, but he’s not back yet at the moment. The two kids miss their uncle very much, so they asked me to give him a video call. However, I couldn’t get in touch with him. Chase claimed it was very normal, given their kind of business. Sometimes they need to go to places where they can’t get in touch with the outside world. Hence,
Chase asked me to patiently wait for a few days. But I feel quite worried.”
While describing the incident, Margaret heaved a long sigh. Quinton was the descendant of the Ellsworth family, so he was the same as Flossie. They were the masters that Margaret vowed to devote her life.
If anything happened to them, she would not be able to answer.
“So, you couldn’t get in touch with him for two days?”
“Yes, I heard from Chase that Mr. Ellsworth went to the south to collect a batch of treasures. The other party is rather violent and rough. So, I’m afraid that something may happen…”
When Margaret reached that point, she said carefully, “Miss Flossie, when will you settle your issues over there? When are you going to return to Beach City? Both you and Mr. Ellsworth are not around. So, Miss Lei is the only one managing Azure Group. It’s already a mess. A few days ago, some people came to make a scene. Miss Lei fought against them head-on. Now both parties involved were taken away by the police officers. Miss Lei is injured too…”
“What? Lei is injured and locked up?”
Flossie felt her temples throbbing. She was soon filled with deep guilt.
Both Flossie and Liam worked hard and endured hardships for four years to establish Azure Group, developing it into what it was now.
During the half year that she was away, it was always her brother and Leia who helped to manage it.
Both of them were not good at doing business. Besides, they knew little about anything to do with electronic technology. Hence, it must be very difficult for them to manage the company.
“That’s right. They were too strong. They came to the company to provoke Miss Lei. She was so angry that a fight broke out, and she and hurt one of them. They quickly grabbed onto this incident and sued her for a criminal offense. Now… she’s still in prison. I don’t even know how much she has suffered.”
Margaret had long wanted to tell Flossie about those affairs, but she held herself back all that while, fearing she might affect Flossie’s mood.
But now, they needed Flossie badly. If Margaret kept it a secret any longer, they might get into bigger trouble.
“Oh, okay, I got it. Don’t worry. I’ll come up with ways to deal with it.”
Clutching her phone, Flossie felt great frustration and annoyance washing over her.
She knew that she should have gone home long ago. She should not have asked Quinton, Lei, and Margaret to bear those things. But…
She inevitably looked toward the antique shop. Jovan was still in there, waiting to present the surprise he had meticulously prepared for her.
What would happen to Jovan if she left?
This man had ended up in this state solely because of her. If she left after manipulating him, she could not live with herself.
“Oh, gosh! What should I do?”
She closed her eyes in a dilemma. She was in deep pain.
At that time, she heard a bang. A giant noise came from the antique shop before the whole shop collapsed abruptly. There was fire everywhere.
“Ah! It’s on fire. Hurry up. Save them!”
South Street was considered the liveliest street in that whole town. Besides, this antique shop generally had a lot of guests. When the explosion occurred, a good number of people were in it.
Endless screams of shock and horror could be heard from everywhere. People held their heads as they ran helter-skelter in a panic, fearing they might get burned by the raging flames.
Flossie was rendered speechless by the horrific sight.
With a wide-eyed gaze, she stared at the antique shop that was on fire. She was struck dumb.
She only managed to regain her wits after a long while.
“Jovan… Jovan!”
She quickly got out of the car and rushed into the fire frantically.
“Madam, it’s too dangerous in there! For the love of God, please don’t go in!”
The firefighters who had just arrived blocked Flossie outside the door.
“Let go of me. My friend is in the shop. He can neither see nor walk. I have to save him. Let go of me.”
“Madam, we’ll save them. Please just wait here patiently!”
The firefighters persisted in stopping Flossie, prohibiting her from getting close to the fire.
The fire was soon put out. As the casualties were individually carried out, Jovan was nowhere to be seen.
The final person who was carried out was the driver who pushed Jovan into the shop.
His head was wrapped in wads of bandages, and he had a broken leg from the explosion. It looked particularly hideous and dismal.
Flossie tried her best to struggle out of the firefighters’ grasp before she ran to the stretcher of the driver. She stammered, “Jo… Where’s Jovan? Where is he? How is he?”
“He… He’s been kidnapped. Go and save him now!”
After he uttered that, he blacked out.
“Did someone take him away?”
Flossie was dumbfounded as she pondered over the words carefully.
The firefighters searched the scene again. As expected, they did not find Jovan.
Flossie was unsure of other things. The only thing that she was certain of was that Jovan was alive.
It also proved that this sudden explosion was not an accident but deliberately perpetrated by someone.