Christie arrived at the house with her bodyguard, rushed to embrace David, and burst into tears upon learning what had happened to her brother.

"How's Mum? Does she know yet?" she asked through her tears.

"I haven't told her anything," David replied as he wiped her beautiful face. "What happened to you? And don't say nothing, because your secretary called me."

"That stupid man who bought Adele barged into my office, threatening not to let me leave unless I signed marriage papers with him," Christie recounted furiously, finishing wiping her face.

"I beg your pardon?" David asked angrily. "And where were your bodyguards?"

"I'd sent them to find out where...