Georgia cried at Robert.
“He’s taken Emilia. I heard her screaming over the phone. You met Emilia. She’s strong. If it wasn’t the worst torture, she wouldn’t be in such pain. I already lowered my head to Eric and tried to negotiate with him, but all he told me was that he just wants to torture me and torture the people close to me. We can’t go back now. We have to find Emilia…”
Georgia trembled and spoke about what had just happened, and Robert’s face sank.
He hadn’t said anything yet when Ivan spoke up in a panic.
“Be clearer about it, Georgia. What’s Emilia’s situation? What did Eric do to her?”
Georgia shook her head unbearably.
“He just gave me a call and I heard Emilia’s pained screams in there. It’s her voice, I know it. Eric wouldn’t just get someone to pretend to be Emilia to frighten me.”
“Give me Emilia’s phone number, Georgia. We’ll try calling her first.”
Georgia knew that Ivan was chancing it on the one lucky hope, and it was true that she hadn’t called to confirm it.
Afterwards, everyone waited anxiously in the room as Ivan called.
Ivan called Emilia several dozen times, but nobody picked up.
Robert had already put his people on investigating Emilia’s whereabouts, and where she’d gone recently.
Georgia also gave Wilson orders.
They’d been planning on going back today, but that interrupted all their plans.
Not long afterwards, Aston, Antonio, Riley and Leda came over as well.
Georgia explained the situation in brief, and Aston was worried sick as well. He gave his parents a call and had the Powell family hurry up and investigate Emilia’s whereabouts. Another investigation, another slim hope.
After about three hours, they finally confirmed that Emilia really had disappeared.
When she’d gone over to the southern continent to meet a friend, she’d vanished in a village and there had been no traces of her ever since.
Georgia could also be sure that she’d heard Emilia’s voice.
The only possibility left was that Emilia was going through hell over in Eric’s hands.
“With all the property Eric’s lost, did he really take Emilia for no other intention other than to torture her?”
Riley asked from the side, and Georgia nodded painfully.
“I talked with him over the phone and told him that he could give any terms he wanted, but he’s lost his mind. He says that so long as he tortures the people close to me, it’ll hurt me, so he won’t talk terms with me. He wants me to know my friend’s suffering every day and every night, so I’ll suffer as well and lose sleep every day. He’s just a sick bastard. There’s no negotiating with this sort of person. All we can do is find out where he is or give him an even greater chance to profit, forcing him to give her back.”
Ivan suddenly turned around and punched the wall furiously. Everyone in the room was taken aback.
They watched as Ivan’s fingers started to bleed, but he didn’t stop letting out his motions.
Robert walked over and tried to soothe him.
“I know you want to let it all out now, but the most important thing now is to find out where Eric is, or something we can use to threaten him to show himself. We need to keep calm now.”
Ivan looked with a bloodred gaze at Robert, then turned and walked over to Georgia.
“Since you knew what kind of person Eric was, Georgia, you’ve been reminding us to keep safe all this while. Why didn’t you warn Emilia? She wasn’t safe out there alone, so why didn’t you tell her about it?”
Ivan almost howled that in his rage, and Georgia dipped her head, her eyes red.
“I’m sorry. I didn’t think far enough, and I dragged Emilia down with me…”
Comments
The readers' comments on the novel: Pregnant With Twins: My CEO’s Tricky Love