Chapter 251 - Story Of Nina Li

CHAPTER 251: CHARITY BALL (CAUGHT THE CULPRIT)

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Steven picks up Nina and places her down on a French settee. 

"Nina?" gently, he caresses Nina's smooth face to wake her up, but no response from her. 

Steven heard a man moan in pain. He got up and went toward him. As he grabbed his collar, he asked him furiously, "What did you do to her!?"

The guy flinched, taken aback to open his mouth as he seemed to swallow his tongue, remaining to stare at his furious eyes. 

"What did you do to her!" Steven repeated his question, shouting at the guy who was now covering his face with his arms crossing on his head. 

"Please, pardon me! I was only forced to do it! We have no choice!" he reasons out.

"What do you mean by that!" Steven yelled again. 

Stuttering, the frightened guy answered, "She saw us! So we have to take her!" 

In Steven's anger, his eyes disappeared from his face. His gaze was like knives. He didn't think twice; he bent the arm of the guy while pressing him hard on the floor. Wailing from pain, the royal guards below heard him. 

Albert noticed that a room suddenly lit up. With a loud thump in his chest, he took big steps to reach the room. 

"Steven! Where's Sarah?" anxiously, Albert asked the guy.

Steven shoved the guy in his grips before he stood on his feet and returned to Nina's side. He replied, "Greg is looking for her. I don't know which way he went." 

Hearing this, Albert ordered the two bodyguards to search the other rooms, and he will follow too soon. He then strode closer to Nina, scrutinizing at him lovingly while queried Steven.

"How was Nina? Is she alright?"

Looking up at Albert, Steven saw the great concern showed in his eyes. He withdrew his gaze from Albert and shifted it to the guy he beat. 

"That guy said, they covered Nina's nose the reason she lost consciousness. Probably Sarah was treated the same way." 

"Fuck! Did they use chloroform? I'm going now to look for her!" Albert did not wait for Steven to reply. He rushed outside and followed his bodyguards. 

In a dark passage, a man cursed when his friends weren't able to follow him. In his arms is Sarah, who still loses consciousness. He was contemplating whether to go back and check on his friends if what took them long. 

James Moretti is Sarah's distant cousin on her mother's side. He persuaded her to marry, but Sarah doesn't like him.

Also, King Victor doesn't approve of his daughter marrying a man like James. Even with the fact of the status the Moretti family had. James is an arrogant man; known as a playboy and a happy-go-lucky bastard who doesn't care about Royal duties. 

Deciding to go back for his friends, James searched for an open room, so he could put Sarah down. He plans to take Sarah out in the palace through a passageway underground. He was often visiting this place when he's young with other royal children during summer. He found the passage by accident. He didn't imagine that it would become helpful to him. 

Pursing a ludicrous grin at the corner of his lips, James left Sarah, heading back to look for his useless friends. On his way, James met Greg in the hallway. Struck that someone found him out, he turned around and rushed toward the secret passage. 

Meeting in the hallway, Greg instantly suspected that this man is responsible for Sarah's disappearance. His body language is telling him so when the guy ran after seeing him. 

"Where is Sarah!" Greg yells, following the guy. He threw him on the side the moment he got a hold of him on the back collar of his tuxedo. "Where is Sarah!" he repeated when the guy didn't answer.

"Who are you talking about!" James gets up and dashes toward Greg, holding his waist and shove him on the wall. 

Greg struggles to overpower the guy. He thrust his knee; he hit James on the chest. James let go of Greg, but the latter lash his punch; it landed on his face. James took a few steps backward, tilting his head.

However, Greg is quick to lift his right foot and kicks James. His body slammed on the wall before he fell to the ground. Greg now recognized the guy. He is familiar with James Moretti, as this guy has countless scandals. He is quite popular, though.

Rushing footsteps in their direction, Greg anticipates if they are the royal guards. He sighed with relief that it was Jeneva's royal bodyguards. He could tell in their suits.

"Where's the princess?" asked one man. 

Chasing his breaths, Greg sighed before he answered. "Asked that bastard where he hid Sarah." 

The younger royal bodyguard rose a brow upon hearing Greg casually calling his princess by name. 

Greg ignored the guards and ordered them to interrogate James. "Hurry up! Asked that guy!" 

The two bodyguards glared at him. But they must know where the princess is and put her safety first rather than being annoyed with Greg's arrogance. After all, he is the one who caught James. They must be thankful for his heroic deed. 

The older royal bodyguard crouched on the floor, holding James on the shoulder, and shook him hard. 

"Where is the princess!?" he roughly asked James. However, the guy just grinned at them. 

Of course, the Jeneva bodyguards are familiar with him. This is their chance to beat this guy up as the guy pissing them around.

He said, "I won't tell. Go look for her if you want to see her." 

The older royal bodyguard couldn't hold his temper. He was about to throw his punch when Albert's voice echoed. 

"James!" Albert rushed toward the guy, picking him up and pinned on the wall. "Where is Sarah!?" 

"Who knows?" a wicked smirk playing on the corner of his mouth. 

Albert lost patience and thrust his knee into James' stomach. Quickly, the older bodyguard grabbed Albert and said, "Your clothes will stain with his blood, your highness. Let us do the beating." 

Hearing this, a flash of horror passed in James' eyes. His body was already in pain all over, and the bodyguards got ready to beat him up. 

"Albert, I found her!" 

Greg, who secretly left to find Sarah, finally found her. 

Carrying his sister in his arms, Albert halted in the door. His jaw tightens and clenches his fists. Gritting his teeth, he heaves a long sigh to calm his raging chest. He doesn't like what he saw, and he wants that guy to throw him in a pit.

He caught Steven and Nina kissing.