Hearing Amelia had come to the police station to look for him in the middle of the night, Daniel raised his brow and said, "Oh?"
Sarah continued, "Luckily, the officer in the police station told her you're infected with tuberculosis and sent her away. But Johnathan is still worried that she'll guess something was off.."
Daniel added casually, "Perhaps something sticky came up at the company, so she had no choice but to come to find me."
"I heard..." There was no sympathy in Sarah's tone at all. Instead, she said with a sense of concealed joy, "Something happened to your wife."
Daniel was stunned for a couple of seconds before he asked her with uncertainty, "Something happened to Brittany?"
"Yes, but I don't know the details. Your sister didn't tell the police either." Sarah shrugged.
Daniel was silent.
Sarah observed him from the side and figured out what was on his mind. "Are you worried about your newlywed wife? Do you want to call home to ask her about how she's doing?"
At this, light glinted in Daniel's eyes. It seemed as if he was tempted at first, but afterwards, it was anger that danced in his eyes.
How could he not know that Sarah was testing him?
If he nodded, Sarah would definitely think that he wanted to use the opportunity to make contact with someone from outside.
And if she had the wrong idea and thought he had colluded with Amelia to escape from her his way, then he would be doomed!
In the midst of her thoughts, Daniel lightly and coldly said, "Why should I call her? I don't even love her."
Sarah smiled at the sound of that, but her words were probing him, "But the baby in her belly is of your flesh and blood. What if... just what if..."
Daniel began to lose his patience and interrupted, "Ms. Long, what are you trying to say?"
Sarah narrowed her eyes and said, "You said before that you and Brittany are in a relationship simply because of the benefits! So why do you look so desperately conflicted now?"
Daniel's body tensed up as he tried to explain stiffly, "I don't love Brittany, but the baby in her womb is still partly mine. I can't just don't care about it! If I abandon my own child, then how am I different from an animal?"
Daniel ignored her after saying that. Sarah's expression then changed slightly and quickly moved closer to him to comfort him, "Daniel, I was just making wild guesses. You don't have to get angry with me. I'm just afraid that you'll develop feelings for Brittany because of the child..."
After a long while, Daniel finally looked back at her and said helplessly, "Don't be stupid! Why are you worried about that? The moment we take back Apex Construction Corporation and The Ramsay Family, I'll immediately drive her out of the house. I don't want anything to do with her except for the child!"
On the road.
Under the neon lights, Amelia was suddenly hit with a sense of frustration in the car. So, she rolled down the window to let the night breeze in.
Just then, a military Hummer came into sight in her rearview mirror around ten something meters away from her.
Amelia did not care about it at first. Until it dawned on her that the military Hummer seemed to have been following her since she left the police station, she began to pay closer attention to it.
In the beginning, there was only one following her.
Afterword, there were more and more of them.
Two, three, four...
And they were all military Hummers!
And she realised that whenever she drove slowly, they would slow down. And if she sped up, they would follow through immediately too!
In short, no matter what she did, she could not get rid of the four Hummers behind her!
Her experience of being stalked and kidnapped filled Amelia with the urge to turn the car around and drive back to the police station to seek help from the police.
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