Chapter 44\u00a0<\/p>\n
The plane would land past midnight.\u00a0<\/p>\n
As Silas stared at the message he had sent that went unanswered, a nagging feeling told him to hurry home. He instructed,\u201d Change the ticket. I\u2019ll take that 11:30 pm flight.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ralph responded quickly, \u201cYes, Mr. Brennan.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Silas put on his coat, grabbed his phone, and headed to the parking lot. He wondered if Bethany could sleep soundly at home\u00a0<\/p>\n
without him.\u00a0<\/p>\n
At the thought, the corner of his lips curved up ever so slightly.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But when he returned home at 3:30 am, the empty rooms made him frown.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Bethany\u2019s door was open, but there was no sign that she had come back to sleep.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Silas stared at his phone screen. The message he sent her was at 9:30 pm. He wondered about her whereabouts.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Since it was too late, he didn\u2019t wake Jane.\u00a0<\/p>\n
When Jane got up and opened the door to start breakfast, she found Silas on the couch.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cMr. Brennan, aren\u2019t you on a business trip?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Silas\u2018 voice was hoarse as he asked, \u201cWhere\u2019s Bethany? Didn\u2019t she come home for dinner last night?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jane froze for a moment. \u201cYesterday afternoon, she told me not to prepare her dinner, saying she wouldn\u2019t be coming home to eat. Isn\u2019t she here? She didn\u2019t come back all night?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Seeing Silas\u2018 increasingly dark expression, Jane stopped talking.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Silas immediately grabbed his car keys and drove to Bethany\u2019s apartment. He thought that she might have returned to her place since he was away.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But no matter how many times he called Bethany or rang the doorbell, no one answered.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Silas rushed to the security office to check the surveillance footage and found that Bethany never returned yesterday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He began to grow increasingly panicked.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The phone that was reachable moments ago was now off.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Silas immediately called Oscar, who was still groggy from sleep.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He said, \u201cSilas, it\u2019s 7:00 am. Why are you calling me now?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Silas went straight to the point. \u201cWhere\u2019s your cousin? Give me his number. I need help.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Oscar\u2019s cousin, Callan Osborn, was the youngest chief of police. Oscar immediately realized the seriousness of the situation.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He said, \u201cOkay. I\u2019ll send it right away.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
15 minutes later, Silas tracked down the last location of Bethany\u2019s car\u2013the Reid residence.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Knowing Bethany, Silas was sure that she wouldn\u2019t stay overnight at Gary\u2019s house.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Bethany didn\u2019t know how long she had been unconscious. She felt her throat being squeezed tight by invisible hands, unable to make a sound.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Faint light filtered through the gaps in the attic\u2019s wooden walls. She guessed that it was already morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n
X CLOSE\u00a0<\/p>\n
2\/2\u00a0<\/p>\n
She shifted over to the door and weakly knocked on it. She didn\u2019t have much strength, but she couldn\u2019t just sit and wait for death.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Perhaps one of the Reid family\u2019s maids would hear her and open the door.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Bethany lost count of how many times she knocked. Her whole body grew limp.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Just then, a familiar, deep male voice came from outside. \u201cBethany, Beth, are you in there?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Bethany fluttered her heavy eyelids and kicked the door with her foot in response.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cBeth, is that you? Knock twice if you\u2019re there!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
She did so weakly.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The man said again, \u201cOkay, step back a little. I\u2019m kicking the door open. Watch out, okay? I don\u2019t want to hurt you.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Bethany backed away cautiously, then rasped, \u201cI\u2019m ready.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
With a loud bang, the old wooden door was kicked open, and the dim room finally filled with light.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Silas gazed at the woman on the floor, her lips drained of color. He immediately stepped forward and pulled her into his arms. \u201cYou\u2019re okay now. I\u2019m here.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Chapter 45\u00a0<\/p>\n
A Mix-up Made Me His Enemy\u2019s Woman 44 Chapter 44\u00a0 The plane would land past midnight.\u00a0 As Silas stared at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-mix-up-made-me-his-enemys-woman-novel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}