His Real Wedded Bride

Chapter 1394 Location

"Then... What about the one million you promised to give my family for my service?"

Joey stared at David anxiously, afraid that he would outright refuse to pay him.

"Don't worry. The money will be transferred to your family's bank account tomorrow. Of course, what

you say must be true, or else...We will take it back if we don't find Shirley in that place." David spoke

with great solemnity.

Joey's heart leapt with joy, as she thought, 'Jim wouldn't dare to lie to me.'

"The girl must be there!" Joey hesitated for a second, then nodded at the assistant with confidence.

Having reached the end of their discussion, David secretly slipped Joey a pack of cigarettes and

walked out of the room without uttering another word. He hastened back to the Shinning Company.

"Mr. Lu, may I come in?" The sudden knock on the door drew Charles' attention. With his permission,

David entered the room as Charles put away the files and grabbed his jacket from the hanger.

"Oh, you're here. I was just about to ask you if the location of Shirley was accurate." Charles looked

like he was in a hurry to leave as he rolled up his sleeves.

"Yes. The information came from Jim himself, so there no chance for it to be inaccurate."

"Okay, I'm heading there now to find Shirley. You take care of the company affairs while I'm gone. Just

send me a message if something goes wrong."

Charles grabbed his mobile phone from his desk on his way out as soon as he finished talking.

"Mr. Lu, you should bring some people to accompany you. I worry about your safety, especially since

there is a man watching Shirley. We don't know anything about him. He could be armed." David wanted

to make sure Charles wasn't walking into a trap all by himself.

"I don't have time. I have to go there right now. You arrange something and send them over as soon as

possible." Charles went into the elevator that was going to take him to the parking lot.

Charles wanted David to inform Sheryl of the news to ease and comfort her, but he was worried that it

would only make things worse if he didn't find Shirley there.

After carefully mulling it over, he decided against informing her just to until he was certain.

The elevator beeped and the doors slide open to the parking lot. After setting the GPS to the location

Jim had given them, he drove out of there as fast as he could.

'My dear Shirley, please hold on. Dad is on the way to bring you home.'

Charles' heart was overwhelmed with excitement. 'Shirley has been gone for many days. I wonder how

she is doing. God, I hope that she's okay!' The more he thought about these things, the more his heart

ached to see her. Now that he knew where Shirley was, he didn't want to waste even a second. He

would fly to her if he could.

In a deserted cabin in the suburbs

A man was seated anxiously on a chair, with a tattoo of an eagle's head on his arm. Under his feet laid

cigarette butts scattered all over the floor. The air was filled with smoke. Content from NôvelDr(a)ma.Org.

Not too far from him was a girl sitting on the floor with her hands tied behind her back. No matter how

hard the girl struggled, it was all in vain.

The girl was none other than Shirley, whom her parents were missing day in and day out.

The first few days after Shirley got kidnapped was very difficult for her. She couldn't stop crying and

crying out for help, but she seemed to have calmed down now. Although deep down she was still just a

scared little girl, she held her tears back because she firmly believed that her parents would find her

and take her home soon.

Having lived through such a traumatic experience, Shirley seemed to have aged a decade in just a few

nights. Her clothes were in tatters, her dimples were fading away, her cheeks were hollow and her face

carried a tint of yellow due to lack of nutrition. However, even in the darkness, her eyes still shone

brightly with the same fire and resilience she always had.

On the other hand, her captor, was an anxious man whose hands couldn't stop fidgeting when they

weren't hold a cigarette or his mobile phone. And when he had his phone in his hands, he couldn't stop

staring at the screen, constantly locking and unlocking it again and again.

Ever since he found out that Jim was in prison, he had been waiting for Charles' call. He was still

expecting the ten millions dollars in ransom. He was even more excited by the thought of not having to

share a single penny with Jim.

However, since the day the police caught Jim, there was no response from the Lu family.

Patience was not a virtue he was blessed with and every minute he spent there wore him down

mentally and physically.

He constantly thought about how to deal with the little girl he was in charge of. According to Jim, if the

Lu family hadn't paid him the money in time, he would have to kill her and dump her body there.

However, regardless of how tough his tattoo made him look, the man had never killed another human

being before. He didn't have it in him to kill that girl. In the past few days, he noticed how red her eyes

had gotten from holding back her tears. It filled his heart with pity.

But what else could he do? Although he didn't want to kill her, he couldn't just wait here and do nothing

for the rest of his life, either. He was desperate and he needed to come up with a plan very soon.

"Uncle, may I have some water? I'm very thirsty." Shirley stared at him with eyes filled with hope.

Faced with her gaze, he couldn't help but take out a bottle of water. He opened the cap with a quick

twist and poured water into her mouth.

"Ahem..."

Shirley gulped down as much as she could and coughed out the rest. Water ran down from her mouth

and wet her dirty clothes.

The man stopped at once and let out a heavy sigh.

'This little girl is troublesome, like a delicate flower. I have to feed her with water carefully.' That man

looked up into the ceiling helplessly and went back to his thoughts again.

Suddenly, he heard the sound of a car engine outside.

'What? Have the Lu family already found us? This is a remote area in the middle of nowhere. People

wouldn't be here unless they had a purpose. They must have come to save the girl.'