As soon as he skirted around the villa, his phone rang. He took it out and picked up the call.
"Tony, Black Wolf ran away!"
an anxious voice came through the phone.
"What?" Tony immediately stopped in his tracks. "What happened?"
Black Wolf was an intelligent mastiff. It had never run away without Brian's command except when it had accompanied Molly outside of the manor that one time.
The serious voice spoke through the phone once again, "Black Wolf has been running around in the backyard for the past few days. It seemed that it became livelier than before."
He then added, "Therefore, we all thought that it was just playing today. We didn't notice anything wrong until we found that it was missing. We've searched everywhere high and low, and we found its trace. It ran away in the same route it took last time. If nothing goes wrong, it should have arrived at downtown."
"My goodness!" Tony yelled, and immediately turned around and headed to the villa.
*
On the road, Molly continued to drive Brian's car. There was hardly any traffic and they traveled quite smoothly. They passed through the bustling area of A City, then turned to the next streets that were headed to the luxurious apartment in Kylin District. While on the road, mother and son discussed and ran through their plans for tomorrow. They planned to go to the villa once again. Their reasons were to have a free meal, and to help Lisa with housework. Both of them believed that it was necessary to be shameless in order to take the cold Brian down.
One building caught Mark's attention. "Well, how could the light of the art class be still on?" Mark said as he looked out the window at the building that had one room with a light on. His eyes lit up all of a sudden then he said, "Mommy, stop. I haven't said thanks to Miss Xie or my little friends."
Molly drove at a slower speed. "Are they the ones who put on the play together with you?" she asked. The car stopped at the curb and Molly looked at the art class room through the car window. It seemed somewhat weird that its lights were still on at this time of the day.
"Why isn't the class over yet? It's so late!" Molly wondered.
"I don't know," Mark was equally confused and he got off the car. When he closed the car door, something appeared in front of him and he couldn't help but scream. He almost ran away but his legs were frozen in their place. There before him, stood a really large, furry dog that kind of looked like a wolf.
Mark's sudden scream shocked Molly and she immediately got out of the car as well. She asked loudly, "What's wrong? What happened?"
She rushed to the head of the car. There in front of her son sat a huge mastiff, and she blinked in astonishment. "Black Wolf?" she said.
Black Wolf barked when it saw Molly, and stood up while wagging its tail wildly.
Meanwhile, Mark took a step backwards out of fear but he was really curious as well. He and the dog stared at each other without blinking. Suddenly, it groaned and bent over on the ground, its big paws stretched in front while its tail wagged leisurely.
Molly walked towards Black Wolf and squatted in front of it. She gently stroked its furry head with nimble fingers and asked "Black Wolf, what are you doing here?"
"Woof...!" the mastiff groaned and rubbed its head against Molly, an action that was a complete opposite from its fierce and imposing character.
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