Stinson pov.

After I left the hotel, I went to see another doctor.

I hadn't slept much for a whole week. I had had this bad headache, especially after I knew that damn woman was still alive, which kept me up all night. I could hardly take it any more.

However, this quack doctor told me that there was no way to treat my illness.

This doctor eventually prescribed me some Valium tablets. After leaving the hospital, I saw my bodyguards waiting for me at the entrance. That’s weird. They were the guards I had arranged to keep a watch on Bella. Why were they here?

"Why are you here?"

The two bodyguards heard my question and looked at each other with a bewildered look.

"Aren’t you the one who said the car broke down and asked us to come and pick you up?"

When I heard that, I knew something must be wrong. Suddenly the phone rang.

"President Stinson, I’m sorry. Mrs. Bella ... she escaped. I only found a note in the room with this written on it."

Quinn took a picture of the note and sent it to me. When I saw the word 'losers' on the paper, I could feel the veins in my forehead bulging in anger.

"One more thing, someone put the surveillance video of you and Mrs. Bella .... fight in the hospital office this morning ... Now it had become the subject of heated online discussion. People on the Internet are saying that the president of S Company bullies female doctors because he’s wealthy and powerful. They all want to seek justice for that female doctor ..."

His words gave me a splitting headache. I tried desperately to suppress my anger, and panting, I gave orders to Quinn and said.

"Arrange for the company's PR department to handle this immediately, contact Dean Duffner, and have the hospital cooperate with us. We will declare that videos were maliciously edited and faked by someone. Then have the cyber security department destroy the videos and take control of the conversation. That’s what you need to do, and I will take care of the rest of it."

"Copy that, I'll get on it immediately."

After I said that, I could no longer suppress my burning anger. I slammed the phone in my hand to the floor. I felt my eyes start to burn, the stinging sensation traveled from my head to my eyeballs, and a low growl slipped out of my throat as I gasped sharply for air.

"Bella! You bitch!!!"

......

By the time I got back to my room at the Dalton Hotel, I had pretty much took care of the internet scandal. But when I saw the note left on my desk, I was hit by another violent headache. I went crazy and roared.

"You bunch of losers! You can't even keep an eye on a woman!"

Quinn and a few bodyguards stood in front of me with their heads bowed. Quinn said, "I'm very sorry, president. I don’t know who they are, but they certainly have come prepared, otherwise the surveillance cameras couldn’t have just happened to malfunction when that woman escaped."

"What! ? All the surveillance is down?" If that's the case, they certainly had come prepared.

"Where's Yanni?" I asked again.

"The young master is now resting in the bedroom. President Stinson, don't freak out. I'll send someone to find them right now." Quinn said with a panicked look on his face.

I frowned and thought to myself, thank god Yanni was fine. If that damn woman dares to take away my child, I’m sure she’d be dead by now.

Bella pov.

Time was running short. I quickly packed all the stuff, only having a little time to leave a note for Mary. I wrote on the note that I was taking Allen and Ellie to Mrs. Ethel's house in the country and I asked her to help keep our secret. Then I took my babies and set off.

Mrs. Ethel was originally a patient in the hospital, who was very sick. Then after my treatment, she finally recovered completely. Since then she had been very friendly to our family. She runs a farm in the country, and she often brings fresh fruit and vegetables to visit our family. Over time, she has become one of my best friends in the M country.

Mrs. Ethel greeted us warmly when we came to visit her. Then she invited the three us to temporarily live on the farm with her. It was like we were on vacation. The life here was comfortable and relaxing. Allen and Ellie liked living here too. Before we knew it, a week had passed.

I was thinking that everything just went smoothly until Mrs. Ethel got a call today.

"Sybil, it's a call for you from a lady named Mary."

Mary? Why did she call out of the blue?

I didn't think too much about it. I quickly picked up the phone.

"Hello, Mary. What’s up?"

"Sybil, I'm so sorry." Mary suddenly burst into tears.

I was taken aback, immediately realizing that something bad must have happened.

"Mary, what's going on exactly?"

"I'm sorry, Sybil, I didn't mean to betray you. But they warned me that they would throw me into the sea to feed the fish if I didn't contact you. I'm sorry, I really don't want to die. Please don’t kill me, please..."

I froze. It must be Stinson’s doing. Anger blazed from my heart.

"If you don't want her to die and become fish feed, just do as I say." A cold and vicious man's voice suddenly sounded on the phone.

It was that bastard! Stinson!

"Let her go. Stinson, you bastard!"

"Bella, do we have to torture each other? If you want to play, we can do this all day. You come to XX port tomorrow at 12 noon on time, then I will release her. If you don’t come, trust me, you will be sorry."

As soon as the words left his mouth, he directly hung up the phone.

Stinson, you piece of garbage!

......

The next day before I left the farm, I had a few words with Mrs. Ethel.

Then I drove all the way to the place designated by Stinson and finally saw Mary who was tied up and hung off the deck of a ship from afar. She was struggling and crying in terror.

Stinson was sitting in a chair on the deck, looking at me with a victorious gaze.

"You're finally here. I've been looking all over for you."

I took a deep breath, suppressed the anger in my heart, and said to him coldly, "If you let her go, I promise I will go back with you. Okay?"

"Really? No more hiding this time? You must know, no matter how far you run, I can always find you."

I gave him a fierce glare, then shifted my gaze to Mary.

Stinson did keep his word and had Mary put down. I hurried to hold her in my arms. she just kept crying, still in shock. Her wrists were red and swollen from the rope strangulation. She kept apologizing to me in a hoarse voice.

"I'm sorry, Sybil. I really didn't want to die, but I didn't want to betray you. I'm sorry."

Her words stung my heart. It suddenly hit me that I was the one who dragged her into this torture.

"It's okay, you don't have to apologize, really. I’m the one who should be sorry. I'm the one who dragged you into this."

"I didn't say anything about Allen and Ellie, don't worry." Mary, the girl who was trembling, suddenly whispered quietly in my ear.

"You'll always be my best friend, Mary."

I was really touched to hear her words. No one is not afraid of death, but Mary protected my most precious things under the threat of death. Thanks to her, my babies were safe and sound now.

"Who the hell are they? ... Sybil, what kind of trouble have you gotten yourself into, and where are they taking you to?"

A few moments later, Mary, who had finally regained her composure, asked with great concern.

But I didn't want to drag her into this anymore. My biggest hope now was that bastard would not take his grudge against me to my friends.

"It's okay. I'll take care of it. Just go."

Several men in black then kept an eye on me to prevent me from escaping. I had to meekly walk onto the ship and stand in front of Stinson.

His obsidian eyes, as if covered with ice and snow, looked at me coldly. If there was any emotion in them, it must have been nothing but disgust and resentment.

I was feeling the same way about him.

"You don't have to look at me like that. I said I'd take you back. If you die, I'll take your corpse back so that it can confess to your father for your sins."

"Confess!? What mistake have I made? Aren't you afraid that when I go back, I will again get in the way of your love affair? Don't you forget, only when I die, you can be together with another woman.

As soon as the words left my mouth, Stinson angrily stood up from his chair. His eyes were all red, looking like a devil.

"Don't be a smartass! Once I make a decision, no one can talk me out of it. Whether you are dead or not, doesn’t make much difference to me."

Then he turned and left, never looking at me again.

A few black-clad bodyguards escorted me into a room inside the ship's barn and they locked the door. I looked around the room, which was mostly clean. There was a window in the room through which I could see the deck, but the window was too small and there was barbed wire, making it almost impossible to escape.