Dangerous Love: You Are My One and Only Bride novel Chapter 1853

Arianne cast away the broken shard in her hand and sat so that the old woman could tend to her wound. She had accidentally applied a bit more force than she had intended for the performance, resulting in a deeper cut than required. The silver lining was that sharp pain was all she had to endure, since the bleeding stopped without fail.

All this time she wondered when that scumbag would show himself. As she waited, though, sleepiness gradually conquered her. She slept not a wink last night, and when combining that with the psychological torment she had endured, Arianne lost the fight against her bleariness and succumbed to sleep.

Back in Tremont Tower, Mark was sitting behind his usual desk, his face fraught with worry. His eyes had never left his phone.

There was still no news of Arianne. That was despite all of the efforts of their search party.

The widespread, unsavory news about his conduct at Mateo's funeral was long below his attention; no, what drove him to nigh madness was the unpacifiable pain of losing the most significant part of his soul.

She had been there just minutes ago! Right under his nose! He watched her, he was there, so how? Who? Who cut her away from him?!

There was a knock on his office door.

“Come in,” he muttered gloomily.

Jackson opened the door and walked in, causing a weak glimmer of hope to flicker in Mark’s eyes. “You found anything?!”

His friend shook his head, blowing the kindling in Mark’s eyes away. “Then go back to looking! What are you here for?”

Jackson strode toward him and patted his shoulder. “Trust me, we are. We have never stopped looking. But right now, I’m here to tell you my working theory, Mark,” he replied. “This isn’t just any abduction case, methinks. To be able to take an adult woman away while you were watching her like a hawk suggests that the criminal was fully-prepared. According to my people, the car that had taken Arianne away from the funeral spotted a fake license. After leaving the site with Arianne, the car quickly got off the grid. It was finally rediscovered in a remote, unpopulated area, with the driver long gone.”