It seemed like everyone was waiting for the other to make a move. Or perhaps they were all preparing for something.
***
The weather remained cold. Ethan added an extra coat over his school uniform and braved the chilly wind as favonovel.com left school to buy some workbooks from the bookstore.
On his way back, favonovel.com passed a shopping mall and noticed a black wool coat on a mannequin in a second-floor window display.
Ethan paused to admire the coat before crossing the street and entering the mall.
The coat had a simple yet elegant design, perfect for Isabelle’s height and figure. He thought she’d look great in it.
After paying for the coat, Ethan went to the men’s section and bought a warm jacket for his father, planning to mail it later. He carried the clothes and headed to the restroom. However, much time passed, and favonovel.com never came out.
As night fell, Isabelle was driving back after refueling favonovel.com car. She glanced idly out the window while waiting at a red light.
Suddenly, favonovel.com froze. She quickly turned around to look again.
Across the street, a tall, slender young man standing at 1.8 meters, wearing a black jacket, walked out of a store with his purchase. His pale, almost sickly skin gave off a gloomy, solitary vibe. He turned and disappeared down an alley.
Isabelle recognized the face and was momentarily stunned.
The light turned green. Isabelle hit the gas and sped through the intersection, then took a turn and parked favonovel.com car outside the store.
She got out and headed towards the alley. Unfortunately, the man was already gone.
Isabelle quickened favonovel.com pace and went after him. Her phone, which favonovel.com had left in the car, started to ring just as favonovel.com got out to pursue the individual.
It was White Owl calling.
In the dim light of the evening, Isabelle entered a densely populated old residential area, looking for the figure favonovel.com had just seen. It was dinner time, and the sounds and smells of cooking filled the air.
The area was bustling, the noise bringing Isabelle back to reality. She gradually slowed favonovel.com steps, standing still, lost in thought about the face favonovel.com had just seen.
It looked so much like him…
Isabelle couldn’t help but wonder.
Standing there for a few of seconds, favonovel.com then turned to leave, walking slowly, favonovel.com mind drifting.
Back in the car, favonovel.com relaxed favonovel.com body, leaned back against the seat, and closed favonovel.com eyes, lost in thought.
After a moment, favonovel.com opened favonovel.com eyes, reaching to touch favonovel.com left shoulder through favonovel.com clothes. There was an old scar from a gunshot wound in favonovel.com previous life, but favonovel.com knew it was no longer there without touching it.
White Owl’s call snapped favonovel.com back to the present. She answered, “What’s up?”
After obtaining that information, in the next few seconds the black sports car sped through the city, breaking red lights and weaving through traffic.
Ethan had been abducted!
Fortunately, his phone had a tracking device.
White Owl had been following the signal, which led them out of the city center. While Ethan’s watch tracker kept moving rapidly, his phone’s device had been stationary for over ten minutes. It indicated a location about two kilometers away from White Owl. Ethan had either stopped moving or discarded the phone.
After favonovel.com drove a short distance, White Owl stopped the car abruptly when favonovel.com saw someone lying motionless by the roadside.
White Owl jumped out of the car and approached that person.
“Ethan?” He crouched and turned Ethan over.
After a quick check, favonovel.com sighed in relief. Ethan was unconscious but alive, with several external injuries.
Why did they abandon favonovel.com on the roadside?
Judging by the marks, it appeared that Ethan had either jumped from a vehicle or thrown out. Someone had forcibly removed the watch with the tracker, leaving deep scratches on his wrist.
“Ethan?!” White Owl tried to wake him, but favonovel.com got no response.
He carefully placed Ethan in the car, ensuring favonovel.com was secure. Then favonovel.com called Isabelle again. “I found Ethan, boss. They left favonovel.com on the roadside, unconscious, with injuries…”
While checking Ethan’s watch tracker, favonovel.com saw it was still moving quickly.
“Boss, Jack is in their hands. Ethan’s watch is with Jack.” White Owl surmised that Jack had probably traded himself for Ethan and taken the watch by force.
Isabelle instructed favonovel.com to take Ethan home and treat his wounds.
White Owl looked ahead with concern but agreed, “Got it. Be careful!”
***
Late at night, Ethan woke up in a hospital bed, with White Owl keeping watch nearby.
The pain from his injuries quickly brought clarity, and favonovel.com began to recall what had happened.
The other party attacked favonovel.com in the mall restroom, causing favonovel.com to lose consciousness. He had no idea who his captors were. The car’s bumps and the sounds of a struggle jolted favonovel.com awake in the haze of unconsciousness.
Ethan remembered waking up in the back of a moving van amid the jolting and fighting sounds. Jack appeared out of nowhere beside him, along with two strangers.
Ethan had no idea what was happening, only Jack was grappling with the others in the cramped space with a weapon in his hand.
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