The car sped through the night, and Emma, shrouded in darkness, felt a surge of fear.
'Who would want to kidnap me?
What would they do—cut off my limbs or worse, kill me?'
Finally, the car screeched to a halt at a run-down warehouse.
The door flung open, and Emma was roughly yanked out.
She found herself in a desolate warehouse filled with gasoline barrels, and Stella stood there alongside a well-dressed woman.
The woman was Amelia Clarke, the youngest daughter of the Clarke Group's president.
The Clarke Group had been loyal allies of the Brooks family for years.
Amelia had been infatuated with Ethan since childhood, always imagining herself as his future wife.
But then Stella had appeared, claiming that a woman had wormed her way into Ethan's bed under the guise of a tutor.
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