Darling, Don’t Run Away! - Chapter 266

The next day,

Knock knock!

“Sarah?? Open the door, please!” Elanor still knocking on the door while keep glancing on her wristwatch. It’s almost time for her to do her makeup and get ready for her engagement day.

“Sarah?? If you don’t answer me in ten seconds, I’ll have someone break into your room, now!” She starts to feel antsy. Sarah’s not in her best condition in the past few days. She even diagnosed with mental illness last time. However, she can’t ruin today’s event, or her family will be done for!

On the count of five, Sarah finally opens the door. She was so in a mess. Her head keeps buzzing with noise and hasn’t slept for the whole night. She’s so tired, and she had no energy to even open her mouth right now.

Seeing how messed Sarah’s room is, Elanor gasp opens her mouth in shock. “What happened to you? Why your room like this?” she then glance at a few maids, signaling them to clean up the room.

“I’m tired,” Sarah mumbles while biting her fingers. She tilts her head while looking at the maid who cleans her room before she tilts her head again to look at her mother.

Her behavior shows that she’s not in her best condition at all. It somehow makes Elanor shiver with what the doctor said to her last time. ‘It can’t be! My daughter cannot be insane like this! My daughter is perfect! She needs to be perfect today! She must!’

“Nadia, can you make over Sarah as best as you can? I need her to look stunning today. She needs to be dressed properly and be the most beautiful bride-to-be today.” Elanor turned her body to the makeup artist that she brought along today.

Jolt her body a bit, Nadia took a peek at her client for today. She presses her lips together, seeing how bad her client condition today. Nadia can’t promise Elanor to give the best result, judging by how terrible the girl is. But….for the money they offered, she had no choice and finally, she nods her head.

“I’ll try my best, Mrs. Rochester.”

“Good. I guess we should start now.” Elanor said and went to the check on the dress in the dressing room. Leaving Sarah, Nadia, and a few of maids in the bedroom.

“Err…Miss Sarah, let’s wash up first, okay? I’ll prepare the bath for you.” Nadia rolled up her sleeve to her elbow and stride to the bathroom. But just when she wants to step inside the bathroom, Sarah screech, saying, “No, don’t! There’s a lot of blood inside the bathroom. I kill someone, you see..” She smiles eerily, which makes Nadia flinched.

“Uh….don’t joke around, Miss Sarah.” She carefully said and peeked inside the bathroom. But there’s nothing inside it which makes her frowned before she slowly shakes her head. Try to shake off her thought that her client is actually a crazy person.

“Luna~ Luna~…” Sarah was singing while staring at the maid who’s cleaning the room. It makes the maids feel uncomfortable with how intense she stared at them.

“Did you see her?” She asked and smiled widely.

The maid immediately takes a step back and shakes her head. Not knowing what to answer this ‘crazy’ lady in front of her.

Laughing, she points her finger on the ceiling. “I can see Luna over there. She keeps asking me why? But, do you know why she asked that?”

Again, the maid shakes her head while peeking at the corner of the ceiling. There’s totally nothing there. “She….asked me to give her life back. Ha…hahah…” she starts clapping her hands and laughed.

“Sarah!!” Elanor snapped. She then holds both of Sarah’s hand and looks deep into her eyes. “Stop this, alright?” She begs her while trying to be tough.

“Whoever that is, she’s no longer part of your life. You gonna start anew. You’ll be engaged with Ben. The richest guy in this entire continent. You need to put yourself together. Do you understand?”

Sarah looks deep inside her mother’s gaze. “No longer part of my life?” she asked.

Nodded, Elanor said again. “Yes. She’s not important. Once you marry into Lawrence’s household, you can do whatever you want. You can bury all of your problems. You can even erase all your past life and rewrite a life that you wanted. That sounds amazing, right? So…you have to do your best today. Be the most beautiful bride-to-be that everyone will envy you. No one can talk bad about you.”

Sarah’s eyes sparkle with new hope in her mind. “Can I really erase all of my past?”

“Of course, darling! Having Ben in your grasp is like having a god of fortune in your life. Don’t ever let it go to someone else. He’s yours now.”

Sarah smiles widely, and she feels delighted inside. Like a new purpose has been born inside her, and now she knows what to do. She immediately stands up and happily goes inside the bathroom. Nadia is already standing at the side of the door after preparing the bath for her.

She and the maids, all of them hear what the madam just said to her daughter. They can’t believe there’s someone so shameless like her dare to used Lawrance’s name and inject the wrong idea to her daughter.

However, they can’t say anything about it, can they? All they can do is just do their job silently.

..

Mexico,

“Hey, Jericho..what’s all this, man?” Ramona asked the man who only wore a white t-shirt and his both arm full of tattoos to his neck. She feels like she’s just got cheated about the deal she make.

“That’s what the deal said is. You need to deliver these goods to get your stock, doll. Do it, or your deal is off!” the man pointing his finger to her chest. He doesn’t care what status the girl hold is. No one dares to yell at him in his territory. No one.

“F.u.c.k you, Bazi!” Ramona kicks the truck’s wheel before she angrily opens the truck’s door. She really hates it when she had to travel this far just to get her stock. She thought everything already prepares for her, and she just needs to give them money for it.

Who knows that she gets scammed, and to get her stock supply, she needs to deliver tons of drugs to the mafia’s turf first. Not having a choice, she starts the truck’s engine and steps on the gas.

…

At the same time,

“Target has been moving to the southern region.” Caitlin checks on her wristwatch before she replies to her intel.

“Tail her truck and keep staying low. I need the exact location before I request an elite squad as a backup,” she replied and focusing back on the screen. It’s only a few hours until the engagement party, so she also needs to get ready to go to the party.

“Got it,” Caitlin takes a deep breath before she turns off the earpiece. The moment she turns around, she almost jumps to see Madeline was standing right at her office door frame.

“Uh…Ma’am, what are you doing here?” She asked—a bit stuttering.

“Honey, it’s your big day tonight..why are you still here??” Madeline walks inside the office and looks around Caitlin. Nothing suspicious, but she wonders why she keeps feeling this uneasiness inside her heart. Like something terrible will happen tonight.

Caitlin gulped. She doesn’t intend to lie to Madeline about whose fiancee to be tonight, but she is really not in love with Brian like she was anymore. After all, Caitlin already falls in love with someone else. And she ready to abandon everything for that guy. It just….her mission is not finished yet.

Beep! Beep!

The screen turns green with a beeping sound, making both of them turn their head to the screen. On the next second, her intel guy from the main office starts talking.

“Capt, we found a new wave similar to Kiera’s. it’s near the hotel where…”

“We know it.” Madeline interfere. The location that the screen has been showing them is the next building right at the opposite hotel where the engagement event will be held.

Both of them looked at each other. “You should get ready now, honey. I’ll handle this.” Madeline smile gently while rubs on Caitlin’s shoulder.

Caitlin in the verge of feeling guilty, she really doesn’t want to hurt Madeline’s feeling. But..it has to end anyway or else, Brian will always chase her.

‘I’m sorry, Madeline. I swear..I’ll make it up to you one day. So, please…forgive me just this once.’ She nodded her head and left the office while Madeline also went back to her own office.

She departs the Flynn team to eye on the location. This mission needs to be carefully carried out without attracting too much attention. Especially when there are so many prominent figures who are attending the engagement party tonight.

After getting the confirmation from Flynn, Madeline went back to her hotel suite to get ready for tonight’s party.