Love's Cunning Ruse novel Chapter 276

Inside a villa located in Whispering Pines, a suburb in the south, a woman dressed in a white T-shirt and high-waisted denim shorts sat on a bed in the bedroom. The room was spacious with only a solitary bed, devoid of any other furniture. The windows were designed with burglar bars, making escape impossible.

The bed was adorned with two pillows and a grey blanket, while a dark blue coat lay next to it. A pair of white canvas shoes were placed by the bedside.

The bedroom door swung open, and a tall man, nearing six-foot-three, pushed a food cart into the room.

The woman turned swiftly at the sound. Her blonde hair fell over her shoulders, her blue eyes pure and clear, and her skin was fair and smooth. Her doll-like eyes glanced at the food cart before sweeping over the bodyguard outside the door.

"Hey!" she said in a slightly accented English, addressing the man pushing the food cart. "How many of you guys are there?"

"You won't be able to escape, so don't even try," the man said.

She chuckled, "So, how long do you plan on keeping me here?"

"That depends on my boss. Just sit tight, we won't mistreat you," the man replied.

"But I'm so bored, there's no one to talk to all day," she complained, looking at the man. "Can you tell me who your boss is? Do you know why you guys kidnapped me?"

The man evaded her questions, placing the food on the table and gesturing to it. "Please eat."

Reluctantly, she sat on the edge of the bed and started eating.

"I've been kidnapped for quite some time now. Even if you don't tell me who your boss is, can you request him to give me a tablet to play with? I won't go online, I just want to play some offline games..."

She kept bringing up this matter while eating. Eventually, the man, seemingly annoyed, made a call, presumably to his superior. He switched off the room's Wi-Fi and handed her a tablet pre-loaded with games.

She immediately grabbed the tablet and started playing, obediently sitting on the bed.

The man exited the room, locking the door behind him.

Suddenly, there was a loud crash from downstairs.

The two bodyguards at the door exchanged glances. The tall one spoke into the walkie-talkie, "Scar, what's happening?"

The walkie-talkie emitted a buzzing sound, but there was no reply from Scar.

"Stay here, I'll go check it out," the tall man told the other bodyguard. He pulled out a gun from behind him and made his way downstairs.

At the front door, he found Scar and another colleague writhing on the floor, a woman standing between them, her foot on their hands.

The tall man quickly pointed his gun at the woman in black, Julien.

Julien raised her hands in cooperation, then warned, "There's someone behind you."

Before he could react, he was knocked out by Raines, who had come up from behind with a vase.

"Kyle only sent these amateurs here, what did you bring me for?" Raines said, meaning that Julien could have taken care of these guys in no time.

Julien cast Raines a cold glance, "I thought you wanted to come."

Raines couldn't admit that the young master had asked him to come...

Picking up the tall man's gun from the ground, Raines remarked, "Is it so easy to get private gun in our country?"

Julien took out her phone to make a call.

As Raines was inspecting the gun, he asked Julien, "Aren't we here to rescue someone? What are you doing?"

"They must get the guns in some illegal ways. I'm calling the cops." Julien quickly reported the villa's address, making the call with efficiency.

A bead of cold sweat dripped down Raines' forehead. He wiped off his fingerprints from the gun with his coat and put it back into the tall man's hand.

"Call me when you've handled things upstairs." Julien handcuffed the unconscious man to a nearby iron railing.

"So, what about you carrying handcuffs?" Raines asked as he made his way upstairs.

Julien glanced at the handcuffs and smirked, "Is there a law against using it as sex toys?"

Raines wondered what the young master saw in this woman...

As he reached the top of the stairs, he found another man in black already unconscious on the floor, clearly taken out by someone else.

Raines frowned at the sight. The man in black was looking towards the bedroom, his face contorted with pain. Raines gestured to Julien downstairs, then crept towards the bedroom door. He put on gloves, took the gun from the unconscious man, and kicked the door open.

Along with the sound of the door opening, a woman's scream echoed through the room.

The burglar bars had been cut open somehow. Raines sprinted towards the window. A man in black had swiftly kidnapped Emily.

Even if Julien was quick, she wouldn't be able to make it from the front to the back window in just a few seconds. As Raines predicted, Julien wasn't in time to intercept the man.