Awake for Love: My Coma Bridegroom novel 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.

Just then, the bodyguard hurried over after checking the security footage, reporting, "Mr. Bourne, Ms. Dennis left through the back door! The path there is rough, hard to navigate...given her weak state, I'm afraid...it's not looking good."

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.

"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?"

"That's only a part of it. All I can tell you is, Violette is no ordinary woman, nor an ordinary businesswoman... I promised to keep her secret, so I can't say more," He poured some liquor into an empty glass, and took a sip, "If something happens to her tonight, that'd be really bad! Even if Elijah doesn't blame me, he'll probably cut ties with me."

There was no proper path leading away from the back door of the mansion.