Justin sounded panic on the phone call, causing Michael’s heart to skip a beat. Hence, he got into the car in a hurry while reassuring him, “Don’t panic; just get me up to speed. I’m coming over right now.”
Celine had always been locked up in a secret research center established by the Fletchers in the suburbs, where there was a specific psychiatrist to diagnose her. Even though there hadn’t been any results in the past three years, the research center was heavily guarded, and so it was impossible for her to escape.
Michael also knew what it meant since Celine had escaped—Phantom Wolf’s number one assassin, Katrina, was on the loose in Bayside City. One could only imagine how many people would die.
He got into the car, and the driver started driving. On the other side, Justin reiterated everything to him over the phone clearly.
Over the years, Celine’s mental state had been a torture for me, just as much as she was torturing herself. She had tried committing suicide countless times. This time, I rushed in to get her out and sent her to the infirmary.
However, just when the doctor was about to help Celine stop her bleeding not long after I brought her in, the knocked out Celine got up suddenly. Then, she held the doctor under duress to escape the research center.
“We found the doctor somewhere around the research center. He has been seriously injured, and they are still trying to rescue him. It seems like Celine has stolen a car, and she’s driving into the city. I managed to take a picture of the car’s number plate, which I’ve sent to you.”
Soon, Michael received the coordinates of Celine’s current location sent over by Justin. It turned out that it was none other than Carmen’s kindergarten!
Justin and some skilled masters from the Fletcher Family rushed to the site, whereas Michael desperately phoned the bodyguard who was in charge of sending and picking Carmen up from kindergarten. However, nobody answered the call.
In the meantime, classes had ended in the kindergarten. The kindergarten teacher held Carmen’s hand while they waited for her family’s bodyguards to pick her up from school.
Carmen’s bodyguards would send Carmen to and pick her up from kindergarten every day on time. Therefore, the teachers in the kindergarten were familiar with them. They would only let Carmen leave if it was somebody they recognized. However, the person who showed up today wasn’t somebody she expected.
“Eh? Mr. Michael, I saw the news reporting that you were filming out of town. Why do you have the time to pick Carmen up in person today?”
The teacher seemed confused.
A man clad in black suit got out of Carmen’s family car. He had a pair of sunglasses on, and he looked exactly like Michael.
Nevertheless, the person did not utter a word throughout the exchange, and they left the moment he picked Carmen up. The kindergarten teacher was suspicious, but she suddenly recalled that the news reported that Carmen’s mother had met with an accident. Therefore, it made sense for Michael to be in Bayside City for now.
The teacher had a feeling that Michael was different from his usual self today. Maybe it’s because there’s a stark difference between an actor’s appearance compared to when they are on screen and on television….
Hence, it was unexpected when seven to eight cars came to a halt in front of the kindergarten about a minute after Carmen had left. One of the car doors opened, and Michael got out of it. He asked the teacher hastily, “Where’s Carmen?”
The teacher was bewildered when she answered, “Didn’t you pick her up earlier?”
Michael did not answer her, and his eyes bulged in shock. It took him three to four seconds to snap back to his senses.
Celine picked Carmen up.
Michael didn’t even remember how he got back into the car. His mind was filled with the horrible state the psychiatrist was in.
Celine held the psychiatrist hostage to leave the center. Then, she demanded for the research center’s security guard to open the door for her by threatening the doctor’s life; she even brought the doctor along to escape, but she attempted to kill him cruelly in the end. Initially, she could have murdered him in one go, but she was wounded, and she didn’t have any weapons with her. She lacked strength, and so the doctor did not die.
The psychiatrist is a healthy and strong man, but he can’t even defeat Celine. My daughter, Carmen, is merely 3 years old; how could she possibly escape from her?!
Soon, they found the two bodyguards in charge of driving Carmen, whom Celine had wounded and hid in an alley. One of them was permanently disabled, whereas the other was unconscious and had to be sent to the emergency room.
Celine was currently under the control of the cold-blooded assassin, Katrina, and so it meant that she was a homicidal maniac. Her methods were extremely cruel.
The car continued chasing after Celine’s car, and they drove out of the city. Throughout the journey, Michael did not utter a word, whereas Justin, who was sitting on the front passenger seat, consoled him. “It will be fine. It will be fine.”
If I lose Carmen, all the joy in my life would be taken away.
When Sophia arrived at the construction site, she saw a little girl standing on the balcony of the building’s tenth floor. Isn’t that my Carmen?
Comments
The readers' comments on the novel: My Dreamy Old Husband