My Billionaire Ex-Husband Chase Me Back - Chapter 248

Chapter 248: Run!
Laura was taken aback when she realized they were boarding the helicopter to visit Robert.

After twenty minutes of flying, the helicopter landed in a remote location.

Once they got off the helicopter, Laura followed Marco, who was already walking ahead of her, as they approached a black SUV a few meters away.

They headed to the location using a car, and after ten minutes, they arrived at a rusty warehouse that looked like it had not been used for a long time.

Laura was very nervous following Marco inside the rusty warehouse. The vast building was empty, and a few robust men stood in the corner, waiting for them.

Just before Laura wanted to ask, her eyes fell on a familiar figure she met almost every day. The man’s body was stocky, just like Robert, but his face looked unrecognizable and was covered in wounds.

Laura was puzzled.

“Robert!?” She muttered as she continued to approach the man who was sitting on a chair with his body tied to a rope. The man’s eyes looked red, staring back at her.

Her step stopped a few meters from the man and then looked at Marco, who was standing right before her.

“Babe, is this man really my manager?” she asked in a low voice.

Marco nods while smiling at her. And he gestured for one of his people to approach them.

“L-Laura…” A barely audible sound escaped Robert’s lips as soon as he saw Laura. He was happy to see her but frightened at the same time. If Laura and her fiance knew what he did, they might kill him.

Robert sighs silently while trying to endure all the pain that still lingers in his body. His condition now seemed awfully miserable.

Laura didn’t answer Robert immediately but looked at Marco’s people, the long-haired man standing before them. She looked at the man, “You guys hit him?”

The long-haired man shook his head, “No, ma’am. We found him in this condition…”

She didn’t say anything else to the man with long hair but turned her gaze again to Robert. Her hand clenched into a tight fist as she asked, “Who did this to you?”

Robert bitterly smiled, looking at the confusion and anger in Laura’s eyes, enough to make him decide to be honest with her. He was too exhausted now. Either Laura and her fiance would let him live or kill him later; he didn’t care anymore.

“Laura, my suggestion to you…” Robert’s eyes stare into her eyes. “You better run away. You are so daring to offend someone… you should not. If you didn’t run, you would definitely end up just like me. They will capture you and perhaps throw you in jail…”

Instantly, Laura felt her blood running cold, hearing Robert’s warning. Her hands clenched even more tightly.

“Offended who?” She snapped. “What are you trying to say?”

“Tristan Sinclair!”

Laura was utterly shocked to hear that name. Suddenly, countless questions now appeared in her mind: Why does Tristan torture her manager? What’s his motive? Why is Robert saying Tristan will capture her, too? What is going on outside?

She remembered giving up on Tristan Sinclair and made a promise to Tristan’s mother that she would never appear before them again.

“Are you kidding, right?” Laura asked, only to reconfirm if she heard it wrong. “Robert, you lie to me, right?”

“No! I’m telling the truth…” Robert weakly answers. “Laura, please help me… let me go now. I can’t stay in this country, or Tristan Sinclair will come to collect my life.” His voice trembles as he pleads to Laura.

Not only was Laura shocked to hear Tristan’s name. But Marco also felt the same way.

Marco wasn’t afraid of many people in this country, but there were a few names he would not cross paths with. He was fearful of their power and connection. One of them was the Sinclair family, especially Tristan Sinclair.

“What the hell are you doing this time, Laura?” Marco’s cold stare is enough to make Laura’s face turn pale as she looks at him.

“Explain why you are having a connection again with that man. You said you no longer have a connection with him and his family. Why did he suddenly capture your manager?”

Marco started to doubt this woman’s honesty.

Laura opens her mouth a few times but fails to utter anything. She feels frightened hearing Tristan Sinclair’s name after what happened the last time she met Jessica Sinclair; that woman tortured her.

‘Did Jessica Sinclair ask Tristan to arrest my manager?’ Laura muttered angrily.

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The Next Morning.

Stefan is expected to arrive in the city today. Still, Bella has decided not to pick him up from the airport because Tristan insists on following her to the airport.

She is concerned that someone might take photos of them if she and Tristan are seen together at the public airport. She doesn’t want to add a new problem; she already has many matters and responsibilities to bear.

…

Bella sits alone on the garden bench behind her Grandpa’s house, watching Dax doing his morning exercises near the lake with Geoffrey.

“You didn’t go to the office?”

Suddenly, Isaac Donovan’s voice came from behind.

Bella spots her Grandpa walking towards her. She smiles at him when he sits on the bench beside her.

“I will go after nine in the morning… right after our breakfast, Grandpa.”

“I see. Okay, if you think you must. By the way, where is Tristan?” Isaac is curious because Tristan didn’t show up at his house this morning when Bella and Dax joined him for breakfast.

“Tristan is already leaving for the office; he has a meeting early this morning,” Bella answered.

She knew Tristan was speeding up his meeting because he wanted to accompany her to the airport.

However, this morning, she decided to punish him. She didn’t pick up Stefan, so Tristan was forced to go to the office early in the morning.

Bella feels amused remembering how miserable Tristan was before he headed to his office.