Shadows Between Us (Stella and Sebastian) novel Chapter 373

Chapter 373

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Downstairs, Allan was leading his team on a search when he suddenly stopped and tapped his Bluetooth earpiece. “Yeah.”

Inside the Control Tower, everyone was stunned, staring at the screen.

The screen was showing the phone display of the passenger inside the red box.

[Damn it! I’m still stuck in the airport!]

[Are they going to find me?]

[Answer me! Damn it!]

Texts were flying across the screen, one after another.

Whoever owned that phone was clearly freaking out.

“Wait, you guys can just tap a few keys and break into someone else’s phone?” Landen blurted out, his mind blown.

Stella raised an eyebrow, leaning casually next to Sebastian as she glanced at Landen. “What, got some dirty secrets on your phone?”

Not waiting for his reply, Stella grinned, “Or maybe this one?”

She hit the spacebar, and suddenly, a photo of Landen in a bubble bath popped up on the screen. He was cupping his face with one hand, trying his best to look adorable.

And yep, he was pouting.

Landen just lost for words.

Everyone stood there, left speechless.

“Dr. Miracle, Y-You!” Landen sputtered, his face going beet red.

“This is way too much!’ Landen thought, utterly embarrassed.

Stella chuckled softly, “Hmm?”

Landen started waving his arms around, whining, “How could you show the original? I wanted the one with the beauty filter!”

‘Is this guy for real?’ everyone thought.

“Move your team toward two o’clock,” Sebastian commanded Allin, his voice cold as ice.

Stella glanced up at Sebastian, her tone playful as she called out is nickname, “Sebastian.”

Sebastian looked up. The two of them locked eyes.

Stella grinned, “How about we make this even bigger?”

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At the same time, in the CEO’s Office of lon Wing Drones, Blake was listening intently to his subordinate’s report.

Suddenly, one of Leonardo’s goons shouted.

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A low hum filled the room. The drone on the display case flickered its standby light on, all by itself.

Blake froze for a moment.

“Uh, Mr. Pierce, what?” his subordinate blurted out, eyes wide in disbelief.

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Blake shot up from his seat, rushed over to the display case, and fumbled with trembling hands to open the glass door.

The drone zipped out with a whoosh.

It hovered right in front of him, locking eyes with him like a challenger.

Blake and his men all froze for a moment.

After a beat. Blake stammered. “S-Stella, is that you?”

Oh crap. Mr. Pierce has totally lost it!’ the subordinate thought. Is he seriously expecting the drone to talk to him?

But the next second, the drone circled around Blake, then bobbed up and down like it was nodding.

The subordinate’s jaw dropped.

‘Guess I’m the crazy one here!’ the subordinate thought, utterly floored.

Blake shouted. “Let me get that window for you!”

He bounced up like a kid on a sugar rush, totally over the top, and flung open the window of the CEO’s Office.

“After you!” he said, gesturing grandly.

The drone paused for a moment.

The subordinate was stunned. ‘Is there something wrong with my eyes, or did I just see a drone looking exasperated?” he thought.

The drone shot straight up into the sky.

Blake propped himself on the window ledge, slapped a hand over his mouth, and watched the drone soar away. “Stella, fly fearless! I will always have your back! Go!”

The subordinate grumbled inwardly, ‘Crap. Kill me now. This is beyond embarrassing!”

Meanwhile, at the airport, more and more stranded passengers were piling up at the exit.

“How much longer are we supposed to wait?” someone shouted.

“I need to get home and cook dinner for my kids!” another person complained.

“My food’s probably already been delivered to my place!” someone else grumbled.

Complaints were flying left and right, the crowd’s frustration building with every word.

Someone in the crowd, looking shifty, muffled his voice and yelled, “There’s a ton of us. Let’s rush the exit together!”

“Yeah, let’s make a break for it!”

Caught up in the heat of the moment, a few fired-up folks shouted their support.

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The airport staff looked panicked, while the soldiers guarding the exit were all tense and serious.

Just as things were about to blow up, every single screen in the airport went black at once.

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It was like someone threw ice water on the whole crowd. Everyone’s rage vanished in an instant. People glanced around, no clue what was going on.

But then, in the very next second smack, every single screen flickered back to life.

This time, all the flight info and ads had vanished, replaced by the exact contents of the insider’s phone for everyone to see.

The insider’s eyes nearly popped out of his head.

He stared at his phone in disbelief, then looked up at the screen. It was exactly the same.

‘Wait, did someone just hack my phone?’ he thought.

Suddenly, line after line of his texts started rolling across the screen for everyone to see.

[Command sent! When is the money you promised me going to hit my account?]

One after another, they kept coming. [And what about that permanent residency card you promised?]

The messages kept looping, over and over again.”

Everyone stared at the screens, completely baffled. ‘What command? What money? What permanent residency card?’ everyone was thinking.

There was dead silence.

His phone buzzed, making his hand tremble.

‘Shit!’ he looked down and thought.

It was just a damn smiley face.

Right now, that smiley was

pre provocation.

A strange buzzing sound started near his ear, growing louder as approached.

Feeling a weird vibe, he looked up. Passengers nearby were giving him odd, almost suspicious looks. Already feeling guilty, he got even more nervous. ”

“W-What’s wrong? Did I do something?”

He forced a stiff smile.

Across from him, a little girl blinked and pointed right at the top of his head.

“Whoosh,” she chirped. Her cry came out in a soft, babyish voice

The insider lifted his head, slow and stiff. And then his eyes wen wide in shock.

Right above him, a sleek, futuristic-looking black drone was hovering right overhead, and that weird buzzing sound was coming straight from it.

All the screens in the airport suddenly went dark again.

When they flickered back on. [Are you ready?]

Even the punctuation marks scrolled by, big and clear for everyone to see, looping again and again.

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It was like a message aimed straight at the insider, loud and clear

The drone was buzzing menacingly right above him.

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“Who the hell is it? Get out of here!” The insider totally lost it, yelling like a madman and sending everyone around him running for cover.

In seconds, a huge empty space opened up all around him.

Allan showed up with the Yates family in tow, and he just stood there, speechless.

‘Damn, this is getting way out of hand!’ Allan thought.

But just as Allan was about to step forward, Gavin, the head of the Cybersecurity Division who’d been kicked out of the Control Tower and was itching to redeem himself, suddenly rushed out, shouting, “Don’t move! I’m-”

He whipped a gun out from behind his back and aimed it straight at the insider.

‘Damn, Allan thought, his nerves on edge.

In a flash, the insider broke into a run, so fast that no one even saw it coming. He dropkicked Gavin to the floor, snatched his gun, and tore through the airport in a blind panic, not even stopping to grab a hostage.

The whole place went wild.

“Go after him!” Allan snapped, kicking Gavin out of pure frustration.

‘My patience for idiots has officially hit rock bottom,’ Allan thought, utterly exasperated.

The insider gripped the gun tightly, screams exploding all around him. He yelled, half-crazed, “Why are you still following me?”

He shouted furiously at the drone hovering overhead, his voice aw with panic.

But the drone stuck to him like glue, hovering relentlessly above

With a wild bang, the insider fired a shot straight into the air.