Standing Before Love (Myra and Sean) novel Chapter 628

Question after question kept coming, and Heather was stuck in this game. Just who on earth was the one commanding the pieces on this board? The sky in Bradfort City was currently cloaked in clouds. Likewise, Heather’s emotions were all tangled up. Right now, the thing that Heather was most concerned about was Myra’s whereabouts.

When Matthias called, Heather hastily answered her phone. At this moment, his voice was music to her ears.

“Heather,” Matthias said, his tone heavily colored with longing. After Matthias had been hurt by Heather’s earlier distantness, every minute felt like a year instead.

“Call me again on a different number, Matthias.” Heather was worried that the kidnappers had bugged his phone, so she thought of this plan and hung up on him. Matthias was still puzzled, but he couldn’t ignore Heather’s words after she had requested him to do that.

Matthias called Lara in. “Give me your phone,” he said as he stuck a hand out at her.

Lara looked at him, not quite understanding what was going on. “I left my phone outside.”

“Bring it here, quick,” Matthias urged hastily.

Lara dashed out and came back with her mobile device before handing it over timidly to Matthias. It was his fault for asking this out of the blue—her phone’s wallpaper was a picture of him, one that she had managed to get after painstaking effort.

Lara waited nervously and expectantly like a young girl faced with her crush, but Matthias didn’t say anything about her wallpaper. Instead, he entered Heather’s number with well-practised ease, having already memorized her phone number until it was carved into his mind.

When Heather saw a number she didn’t recognize flashing on her phone, she quickly answered the call. Then, Matthias’ familiar voice drifted over from the other end.

“Heather, what’s going on with you?” Matthias’ instincts were telling him that things definitely weren’t as simple as they seemed.

Heather carefully asked, “Is there anyone around you now?” At a time like this, Heather couldn’t trust anyone.

Matthias glanced at Lara and said to her, “I’ll return your phone later when I’m done. Please go outside for now.” His even tone completely shattered Lara’s girlish expectations.

It turned out that Matthias was capable of ignoring her to this extent. Hatred suddenly bubbled up within Lara, but she also felt lucky that Matthias was using her phone. Moreover, she even knew that he was on the phone with Heather.

A pained smile crept onto Lara’s lips, and a poisonous look flashed across her eyes. Now, Lara knew why people were warned not to fall in love with their superiors.

“Myra has been kidnapped,” Heather said as she cut right to the chase. She couldn’t accept this either despite being the one delivering the news, but she had to tell Matthias about this.

Upon hearing this, Matthias’ brows furrowed deepy. He somewhat panicked as he replied, “No way. Myra is under Tony’s protection, so how can she be kidnapped?” Clearly, it was difficult for Matthias to accept the news too.

“I’m still a little unsure about that, so I’m hoping that you can drop by Myra’s place yourself to see if she has actually been kidnapped.” Heather still held a shred of hope that these kidnappers had found some other woman who greatly resembled Myra to put on an act. At any rate, they should first determine whether Myra was really missing.

“Okay, I’ll go there now.” Matthias immediately got up, for there was nothing more important than this matter right now.

“Don’t be in such a rush—let me finish first. If you can’t find Myra at her home, you must get a picture of a certain pretty maid working at her house. I need a clear picture of that maid.” Heather could only put her hopes on Matthias to do what she couldn’t.

“Got it, no problem,” Matthias answered.

After a moment, Heather still felt that something wasn’t right. “Hold up, I think it’s not all that safe for you to go alone. There’s someone watching us, after all.”

That was a tough problem. Then, Heather mulled it over and asked, “Can you arrange for someone you trust to go?” Heather believed that Matthias would be able to finish this task well.

“Yes,” Matthias said with absolute certainty.

“You must keep everything a secret, and you can’t let anyone else know. By the way, we’re already being watched; not even Tony has been able to escape their surveillance. I hope that you’ll keep an eye out for yourself.” Heather pulled a long face as she thought about Tony’s phone call. The situation with Tony was also another problem.

“What happened to Tony?” Matthias immediately asked. He hadn’t thought that even Tony would be compromised, and things were getting more and more complicated.

“That’s a bit more personal, so now’s not the time to talk about that. Please do what I’ve asked you to do first.” Heather was like a strict commander. They couldn’t make a misstep, or their plan would go up in flames.

“In that case, do you need me to go over to where you are now?” Matthias asked, worried beyond belief. He could tell that Heather wasn’t in a good state even over the phone.

“There’s no need for that. We can’t see each other for now; the kidnappers have forbidden me to see anyone. They’ve kept me at the Langston Residence, turning the place into my prison.” Heather gritted her teeth as she spoke. At the same time, she wished for nothing more than to rip every single one of those criminals to shreds when she thought about them.

“Okay.” Matthias knew that this matter was important, so he obeyed Heather’s instructions this time.