“Well? I said it was a little gift, but if you don’t care about her, you don’t have to worry about her at all. She’s just your cousin, after all. You could very well leave her to die.”
“You’ve gone mad, Eric Wimbledon!”
Georgia roared in rage. Despite her attempt to remain calm on Eric’s side, she couldn’t control her anger any longer in that moment.
The scream had come from Emilia. Her cousin.
They weren’t close enough to the point of Vanessa and the others, but they definitely cared for and trusted each other.
With everything that had happened over here, Emilia had gone out of the country to see her own friends, so Georgia never thought about why Emilia hadn’t come back yet.
Emilia liked to travel outside the country in all sorts of places to begin with. With her mother always sick recently and Georgia having business in the country, she’d asked Emilia to look after her mother.
But with Emilia’s usual personality, she mostly just lingered all around the world.
Emilia was an independent traveler, not some weak little girl. She could deal with thugs and ruffians on her own if she met them.
She’d done martial arts from when she was small, so people were more relaxed with Emilia’s daily safety. She could protect herself, after all, and she’d traveled out there alone like this for several years now.
It could be said that up until now, there had been no incidents.
Georgia couldn’t have imagined that Eric’s grasp would reach Emilia. It was probably that the people around her weren’t good targets, but Emilia was a lone woman traveling out there. Eric had finally found a loophole.
How could she have just left Emilia like that?
Trying to settle her own emotions, Georgia turned to Eric.
“Out with it, then. What are your plans for taking my cousin? We’re in business, Eric. What will it take for you to let my cousin go?”
With Georgia’s words, she was basically admitting defeat.
But she didn’t have a choice. If she dragged someone beside her down with her because of her own business, she couldn’t face her conscience.
She couldn’t very well sit and wait it out, either. Even if she had to pay the price, she had to bring Emilia home.
Otherwise, what was she supposed to say to Emilia’s parents? They might have looked like a calm couple, but Emilia was their only daughter.
“So you do care about this cousin of yours!”
Eric laughed.
“Keep on her!”
Eric’s command was sudden.
Soon, Georgia heard Emilia screaming again.
Her face went pale, her voice trembled, and Eric no longer spoke on the other end of the line.
All she heard was Emilia’s agonized shrieks. The sound almost broke her.
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