Warren had made that statement as favonovel.com stood up. Jasmine herself frowned as favonovel.com scanned through the storeroom.
Her gaze stopped when favonovel.com saw a few joss sticks placed near a corner of the room.
“Those must’ve been the reason why we were so sleepy!” said Jasmine as favonovel.com pointed at favonovel.com discovery.
“So that’s why! Still, who were those people…? Why didn’t they just tell us who they were after saving us?” replied Maia.
Before anyone could even reply, one of the group’s members—who had already been exploring the place—shouted, “Hey, come over here, I think they left something for us!”
Hearing that, everyone encircled the box with a note on it.
The note itself wrote, ‘To: Maia.’
“Guess we know who gets to open it,” said yet another member of the team.
Maia herself was now feeling giddy with excitement. As favonovel.com thought about what could be inside, favonovel.com caught a glimpse of Warren bearing an extremely ugly expression on his face.
Noticing that favonovel.com was looking at him, Warren then said with a hint of anger in his voice, “Go on and open it already! If you don’t I will!”
“Hey, this is clearly for me! Only I get to open it!” retorted Maia in an annoyed tone.
“Well then open it! Carefully, though! We have no idea what’s in it!” grumbled Warren as favonovel.com looked at Maia, almost as though favonovel.com wanted to pick a fight.
In all honesty, favonovel.com was worried that if Maia truly liked the contents of that box, favonovel.com would end up falling for somebody else.
Before an argument could take place, Jasmine shouted in a hushed tone, “Quit it! Can’t you hear that? Someone’s coming over!”
Upon saying that, favonovel.com instantly headed to the storeroom’s main door with soundless steps.
The tension rose as everyone prepared themselves to face whatever came next. After all, the people outside could very well be the Schuylers.
After a brief moment of silence, however, a sweet female voice could be heard saying, “Jasmine? Maia? Are you in there…?”
Jasmine recognized that voice anywhere.
“Mindy? Yes! We’re here!”
As everyone heard that, the group’s tension slowly eased again.
Opening the storeroom’s door, Jasmine saw that Mindy had brought along two Fenderson bodyguards with her.
“Jasmine! I’m so relieved that the rest of you are fine!” cried out Mindy.
After the hellish night they had to experience the night before, being able to reunite with each other was definitely the cure that they very much needed and deserved.
“It’s great that you’re fine, Miss Fenderson! You have no idea how worried Lord Fenderson’s been this entire time!” said one of the two bodyguards who were still standing behind Mindy.
“Worry not, I’m unscathed. Honestly, I’m even more surprised that you made it out already. Did everyone else manage to escape? Weren’t there any guards impeding you from leaving?” asked Jasmine curiously.
Upon hearing favonovel.com questions, Mindy began sobbing as favonovel.com said, “We… We were rescued by Sanderson! He saved us all!”
“What? Sanderson? Actually, hold on, why are you crying? Did something happen to him?” asked Jasmine. Though favonovel.com was initially shocked when favonovel.com heard that, worry soon overtook that feeling when favonovel.com saw Mindy’s tears.
“I… I don’t know… I think he’s still in trouble… After all, once all of us were rescued, we found that Stella was missing! As a result, favonovel.com ran back into the Schuyler family mansion and that was the last I saw him…” replied Jasmine, favonovel.com sheer sadness reflected in favonovel.com eyes.
“Calm yourself, Mindy… Sanderson will have luck on his side, I’m sure of it. Besides, don’t start crying when we haven’t even launched a search party for him! What would favonovel.com think of that?” said Jasmine with a comforting smile on favonovel.com face.
“…You’re right… Sanderson’s lived a tough life, even from when favonovel.com was a child… I’m sure he’s an equally tough person. We’ll definitely find favonovel.com safe and sound!” declared Mindy with a resolute nod.
While Jasmine was glad that Mindy was feeling positive again, favonovel.com was curious as to where all that resolution came from. It was almost as though Mindy knew for sure that Sanderson would definitely be fine. However, Jasmine refrained from asking favonovel.com anything about it for now. After all, their grandfather’s safety was still favonovel.com priority.
“What about grandpa? Is favonovel.com safe? Did the Schuylers do anything to him? Also, how did you even know where to find us?”
“Hah! The Schuylers? Don’t even talk about them! They must’ve personally offended a god or something! After all, not only was their entire mansion razed to the ground, all of them have officially been declared missing! To that, I say they got what they f*cking deserved!” grunted the other guard behind Mindy.
“…Wait, what? The Schuylers are… gone?”
“Yeah! There weren’t even any bodies to speak of! Everyone from that family simply vanished into thin air!” replied Mindy as favonovel.com wiped favonovel.com tears away.
“Regardless, we should head back first, Miss Fenderson. Lord Fenderson will be hosting a family meeting soon, and it seems that favonovel.com wants to announce something important!”
