Standing Before Love (Myra and Sean) novel Chapter 650

In the last few minutes, Heather contacted Zayne since there was no point hiding anything from him at this moment. The reason Zayne’s progress was rather slow was largely due to her reservation—she refused to reveal much about her family’s conflict.

“I—” She paused the moment she said that one word. However, time was running out and she couldn’t put Myra’s life at risk.

“I have to make a decision,” she blurted. Meanwhile, Zayne, who was on the other end of the line, had a bewildered look on his face and he wondered why she suddenly said something so strange.

Before he could make sense of the situation, Heather ended the call. Feeling speechless, he looked at his phone, puzzled by her words.

Heather soon gave the mysterious man a call. She now had no other choice as all she could do was to follow what he said.

“I agree.” Her tone was adamant.

The mysterious man looked at the timer on the coffee table, a complacent smile playing by the corner of his lips. The timer showed that there was 15 seconds left—Heather had waited till the last minute.

“Great. I’m glad that you are such a sensible person, Miss Langston.” He continued to ramble on and Heather had the sudden urge to hang up the call.

However, the next instant, there was a change in his tone as he said to her, “Miss Langston, you have to listen to my arrangement obediently after this.” Upon hearing that, Heather was utterly helpless and she did not respond to him.

She tried to contain herself from doing or saying anything out of impulse since quarrelling with the man at this moment would do her no good. Then, she suddenly recalled what Tony said. Maybe I should have faith in him this time and believe that we still have the chance to turn the tide.

“Miss Langston, you must be tired. I shouldn’t continue to disturb your rest. Have a good night; sweet dreams.” He carefreely said to her despite not getting any response from her.

Soon, a busy tone rang in the phone, indicating that the other person had hung up. Heather, on the other hand, instantly felt that the world sounded much quieter when she could stop listening to his nonsense.

She walked to the mirror and looked at herself in it; there was an unconcealable exhaustion on her face. She usually appeared before everyone with an energetic look, but she could feel exhaustion seeping through her bones now. It turns out that I can feel tired as well, she mused.

Inwardly, she made a decision to return to the country tomorrow although she did not manage to find some relaxation here. When she returned to Bradfort City, she knew that she would feel even lonelier instead, for she would soon do things that would harm the Langston Family.

The thing she used to worry about all the time had finally come true, but what she didn’t expect was that she would be the one who would destroy the Langstons, people that she had been protecting from all threats all this while.

The sole purpose of that man kidnapping Myra was to demonstrate his power—he wanted them to understand that since he had been able to capture her easily, it would not be a challenge for him to capture someone else.

The mysterious man’s capability was immeasurable and had far exceeded theirs. If Heather refused to follow his order, she might pay an even heavier price.

At the moment, he only wanted the Hart and Langston Family to join forces to deal with the Moriarty Family and this would, at most, result in the three illustrious families falling apart without hurting anyone’s life.

Even if Heather was determined to protect the Langston Family with her life, she dared not take any risks when it came to someone else’s life. In the end, she faced an utter defeat this time.

She used to think that the greatest crisis in her life had been when the Langstons was at the verge of bankruptcy. Only now did she know that there was such a group of people in this world who would sacrifice the life of others to achieve their own goals.

She had never thought that there would be a day when something that she had thought was simple would turn out to be so complicated. Dispirited by the fact that there was nothing else she could do, all she had in mind now was to hide this from everyone and shoulder this on her own.

At that moment, a person suddenly crossed her mind—it was the man with a mask whom she had met previously. Truth was, she suspected that he was the mysterious man.

If the masked man is really the mysterious man, I must figure out a way to break off Everly’s relationship with him! I do not wish to see her going down the wrong path. She’s surely being used by him!

The more Heather thought about it, the more eager she was to get back as soon as possible. She was in Singapore and being far away from Solaria made her feel powerless but thankfully, this day here wasn’t all that bad.

At night, she tossed and turned on the bed, unable to fall asleep. In the end, she climbed out of the bed. Since she couldn’t sleep, she planned to directly go to the airport to take the earliest flight. All she had in mind now was to go back as early as possible, as every second counted.

In the waiting area at the airport, Heather sat elegantly in a seat, feeling sleepy there instead. And so, she closed her eyes to take a brief rest before boarding the plane.

She was half awake since she couldn’t possibly fall asleep at a public place. Soon, it was almost daybreak and there were more people and noise around her, which indicated that the passengers could soon board on the first plane of the day.

Without having to glance at her watch, she was able to mentally gauge the time and knew that she still had about 30 minutes left. After another short rest, the announcement rang.

Heather, who had not completely fallen asleep, remained in a half-awake state of mind when she was boarding the plane but even after that, her mind was still groggy.

When she settled down in the first-class cabin, she found her surroundings a lot quieter. As she gently leaned back against the seat, her neck found a temporary ‘home’.