Chapter 258

Celestia Brooks replayed the events in her head—right before Natalie Young kidnapped her. The spot where she met Isabelle Ryan was already at the outskirts of town, and it was during work hours, so barely anyone was around... How did someone even manage to find her? That thought stuck in her mind. There was no way Natalie had a hand in tipping them off, right? Before her thoughts had time to spiral any further, Jareth Carrington spoke up, cutting through the confusion in her eyes. “Someone called the cops.” Those four words summed it all up. Jareth’s voice carried a heaviness as he recalled everything that happened. His gaze went dark, with a flicker of coldness beneath the surface. “You didn’t come back to the office, and your bag was still there. Figured you hadn’t gone far. So I grabbed Secretary Jin and started looking. When we hit a nearby café, we saw police taking statements. I went up to ask, and turns out... you’d been taken.” Worry crept into his face at that point. “There we