Elizabeth was startled. In the dead of night, several burly and tattooed strangers lingered outside the apartment building, with tattoos and gold chains, all fierce and intimidating, obviously not to be trifled with.
Afraid of attracting unnecessary trouble, Elizabeth didn't look much and just wanted to quickly go upstairs.
For some reason, the security personnel on duty in the apartment building were also absent today.
The entire lobby on the first floor was eerily quiet.
Elizabeth had only taken a few steps inside when she heard footsteps behind her, not knowing if it was those several strangers following her.
Her scalp tingled, and her heart almost jumped out of her throat in fear, she dared not look back and ran towards the direction of the elevator.
But before she could reach the elevator, her shoulder was grabbed by a strong arm from behind, and then her mouth and nose were covered with a damp cloth.
Elizabeth didn't have time to struggle and lost consciousness...
...
Imperial Gardens.
"Have another headache?"
Victoria reached out to massage Jack's temples, feeling a bit depressed, not knowing when his headache would finally go away.
"Don't worry, I'm much better now." Jack couldn't bear to make her anxious.
"Don't lie to me, let me take a look." Victoria carefully looked at his face, feeling that he was still somewhat uncomfortable, wishing she could bear his headache for him.
She gently massaged him for a while. Seeing that his face had improved, she guessed that the headache had eased a bit, and she felt a little relieved.
But for some reason, she had been feeling uneasy.
After a while, Victoria's phone rang.
When she picked it up, she saw it was a call from an unfamiliar number.
Victoria frowned.
She had developed a reflexive reaction to unfamiliar numbers, feeling annoyed whenever she saw one.
If this call was from someone in the Montgomery family troubling her again, she would never answer unfamiliar calls again!
Victoria answered, annoyed.
As soon as she answered, a nervous and tense male voice came from the other end of the line, "Victoria, your friend Elizabeth, she is in trouble!"
Victoria was taken aback, Trent?
It was Trent's voice.
It was a call from the long-lost Trent. What is going on?
"You said Elizabeth is in trouble?" Victoria's eyes instantly became sharp, preferring to believe there was trouble rather than not.
"Victoria, please don't hang up on me!" Trent hadn't spoken to Victoria for a long time, fearing being rejected by her, he nervously and anxiously said, "Victoria, I'm not lying to you! The disappearance before was deliberately staged by me. I didn't disappear. I've been hiding in the dark observing the situation of the Montgomery family, trying to figure out some things."
"These days I found that father..." Trent paused here, and quickly changed his tone, "These days I found that Lucas is a bit strange. He has been secretly contacting several wanted fugitives, it seems like he's up to something. I didn't understand at first, but today I found out that Lucas had those fugitives secretly go to your friend Elizabeth's residence and take her away... Victoria, believe me, I'm not lying to you!"
Trent had been hiding in the dark for these days secretly watching the Montgomery family, racking his brains thinking about how to beg for Victoria's forgiveness. Sometimes he couldn't help himself, he missed her too much, so he called her with an unfamiliar number.
Even if the call went through, he didn't dare to speak, like a rat hiding in the gutter, he could only listen secretly to Victoria's voice, which satisfied him.
Originally, the matter of Elizabeth being taken away had nothing to do with him, and he didn't care about her.
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