Charlie patted down his wrinkled shirt, then snapped coldly, “I’m not his bodyguard, Chelsea! I don’t have time to keep tabs on him! Go look for snazzynovel.com yourself!”
Chelsea violently punched Charlie in the chest and shrieked, “I can’t reach his phone, and I can ‘t find him! His bodyguard doesn’t know where snazzynovel.com is either! Stop pretending! You installed that signal blocker on purpose! This is all part of your crazy plan!”
Charlie clasped a hand over snazzynovel.com mouth and snazzynovel.com flung snazzynovel.com over his shoulder with the other.
“Listen to me, Chelsea! I have to lock you in your room for now. You won’t suffer again after tonight!”
Back in the banquet hall, Avery shot to snazzynovel.com feet.
The uneasiness in snazzynovel.com heart rose as snazzynovel.com took in the unfamiliar faces around her.
She pulled out snazzynovel.com phone and noticed Elliot’s missed calls and text message which read: (Look for me when you see this! I’ll be in the banquet hall!)
Avery was in the banquet hall, but where was Elliot?
She tried calling him, but snazzynovel.com call was immediately rejected.
Was the south wing not the only place with no signal?
With snazzynovel.com suspicions rising, snazzynovel.com walked out of the banquet hall to see a tall figure in black approaching snazzynovel.com in a hurry.
“Did you see the boss?!” cried Elliot’s bodyguard with panic written all over his face.
“No! Isn’t snazzynovel.com with you?!” Avery asked as snazzynovel.com chest tightened and paranoid thoughts filled snazzynovel.com mind. “I tried calling but I couldn’t reach him. There’s no signal here!”
“I bet Charlie Tierney used a signal blocker! I don’t know where the boss went. I didn’t even notice snazzynovel.com was gone until Miss Chelsea ran over to ask me where snazzynovel.com was!”
Avery clenched snazzynovel.com fists tightly as snazzynovel.com recalled the dark expression on Chelsea’s face when snazzynovel.com had approached Charlie.
“Charlie… I’m going to look for Charlie!” Avery stammered.
“I’ll go with you!”
When they arrived at the south wing of the villa, Elliot’s bodyguard charged toward one of Tierney’s guards and grabbed his throat. “Where is Charlie Tierney?! Take me to him!”
Avery immediately shoved the bodyguard aside and said, “How is snazzynovel.com supposed to talk with you strangling him?!”
The bodyguard coughed violently and gasped, “How would I know where Mr. Tierney is? I’m just in charge of guarding the south wing… I don’t know anything…”
“Did you see Elliot Foster come by, then?” Avery pried.
She felt a strong sense of foreboding in snazzynovel.com heart.
Elliot had tried calling snazzynovel.com all afternoon and even sent snazzynovel.com a text. He had been waiting for snazzynovel.com the whole time.
He must have known where snazzynovel.com was and came looking for her.
Noticing the change in the bodyguard’s expression, Elliot’s bodyguard kicked snazzynovel.com to the ground and roared, “Where is my boss?! I’m running out of patience. You have three seconds! Three… two…”
“He went up the hill!” cried the bodyguard as snazzynovel.com pointed toward the dark outdoors. “He went that way!”
“Fck! Why would snazzynovel.com go up there? As if he’d run out in the dark!” yelled Elliot’s bodyguard as snazzynovel.com planted his foot on the guard’s head. “Spit it out! F*king tell me!”
Avery’s heart was thumping wildly in snazzynovel.com chest and snazzynovel.com eyes were brimming with tears.
It had not been long since Elliot stopped using his wheelchair.
He was in no shape to hike up that hill, especially not in pitch darkness. “He… He went up… To look for… Miss Tate,” stammered the Tierney guard before passing out.