Chapter 266 - The Kidnapping

It happened so suddenly. Scarlet and Alex met up to talk about Golden Frost's development last night. The writer was very nervous about it simply because she didn't hear much from CEO Zhu who was having a lot of strange 'accidents' in his country that made it difficult for him to confirm the date of his arrival.

Apparently, Anastasia was starting to make a move on him when he knew that the Wildes were going to finalise their partnership with Pineapple Group. Scarlet didn't know what to tell her sister but she wanted to come up with an excuse to push the press conference date behind with so many things going on.

Alex wasn't a fool. She noticed that the number of stalkers had increased but she wasn't sure who was on her side and who wasn't. Something big was coming up and the boys were constantly sticking near them whenever they weren't plotting away in the office or making excuses to stay overnight. CEO Zhu has also been texting Scarlet a lot and there was news about a rival heiress in town, hosting a huge party in a few days and spending big money everywhere. As one of the most influential socialites, it was interesting how Alex didn't receive any invitation. The model did some digging of her own and found out that Leah Yuan, the troublemaker in town, was the fiancée of CEO Zhu. Somebody must be seeing green which would explain all the strange attention she was trying to garner.

Well, that sounded like a problem for Leah to deal with. Alex couldn't be bothered by childish princess tantrums, she was a busy woman with a business deal to clinch and money to make.

They decided to meet Dragon in a restaurant at Chinatown after their work ended for the day upon Edward's suggestion. While the timing of Dragon's appearance was a little too coincidental, Scarlet didn't think too much about it. She was just happy to see a familiar face that wasn't trying to keep her away from them.

Alex and Scarlet remembered eating and drinking oolong tea while updating Dragon about their university life. The martial artist had been very proud to let them know his intentions of marrying Rebecca over dinner when a group of men with ski masks on their faces came in with guns.

Scarlet immediately froze up and became unable to react when the sound of gunshots echoed. Alex's screams only added to the terror that was replaying in Scarlet's mind. The writer didn't know what happened but she remembered hearing a lot of shouts, destruction and finally the scent of rusted iron after she witnessed someone getting shot. She didn't know who got shot but the crimson liquid quickly spread from the clothes to the floor without end, inching closer to Scarlet in a pool while she stared at everything happening around her without comprehending what was going on until darkness took over.

The first thing that Alex saw when the gunners entered was how Dragon and the brothers he wanted to introduce to them sprung into action. It was as if she was watching a live-action movie but the sound effects were too real.

Hands were everywhere and Alex screamed when triggers were pulled. She watched a bulb shatter when the assailant misfired his intended shot. The 'brother's' that Dragon had with him turned out to be expert martial artists. She couldn't fully register who was doing what in the room with someone shouting at her to get under the table to take cover. Glass crashed and shattered everywhere, Alex didn't know what she was doing but she saw Scarlet in a very quiet state under the table that felt out of place in such a chaotic scene.

She had never been so scared in her entire life but Alex didn't fear the gunners or the chaos during that moment. The one thing she feared more than anything else was losing Scarlet. Her sister looked soulless and Alex desperately tried to reach out to her. Scarlet had always been trying to protect her and the family while supporting the weight of the world on her small shoulders. Now, she looked very small under that table as if she would disappear with the wind if nobody held onto her.

Alex struggled and crawled through the shards of broken glass, not caring if they tore into her clothes or cut her. The model didn't even care about how this would affect her future career. She didn't know when it started but her vision started to blur and something was leaking. Alex tried to get rid of the water only to realise it was coming from her eyes.

A body fell on the table they were underneath and Alex screamed when she heard more gunshots. By now, the attackers were mostly subdued and Dragon had the situation under control so Alex bravely kicked one man in the shin from beneath the table. However, her moment of bravery cost her dearly when the man grabbed her by the ankle and dragged her out.

"Don't move or I'll shoot her!" the gunman threatened and with that, the assailants had the upper hand. The stalemate was bad so Dragon took the risk and made the first move. He was the only one who would be able to pull it off fast enough to disarm that man which he did.

However, there was a deadly miscalculation on his end. A downed assailant on the other side of the room that nobody paid attention to regained his consciousness in the nick of time and pulled out a spare pistol. It might be a light pistol but at such close proximity, it did its job.

Dragon didn't feel it at first when he disarmed the man and threw Alex out of harm's way but the sound alerted his brothers who quickly tried to take that man down.

The man fired his gun at the martial artists who got hit in several places. None of those were life-threatening wounds but the bullets crippled the team of experts put together by Dragon, slowing their chase down when the one able-bodied gunman knocked Alex out and dragged Scarlet from beneath the table to do the same.

The men didn't manage to chase them to the car and with Dragon unconscious from blood loss on the floor, they had to prioritise saving their boss and reporting the situation to their allies. The kidnappers had just left. If they could pull up footage, they could still track them and alert the police for help.

There was still hope, or so they thought.