Darling, Don’t Run Away! - Chapter 276

A few minutes earlier,

“Sky, I heard their footsteps.” Alex runs back to their spot, informing Sky, who is still in the middle of retrieving their information.

“Just a second.” He said calmly, and while Alex is in panic, he still reminds Alex to tied up himself and sit properly just like when they were first coming here.

Click!

“Hurry!!” Alex whisper to Sky while widening his eyes. If they being caught for trying to do something in the cabin, they’re dead!

Sky disassembled all of the cards and put it inside his pocket before he put on his blindfold, putting back the rope on his mouth before he finally tied up his hand with Alex’s help.

“Hurry, and take them both!” said one of the men to the other minions. Do as their leader says, the minions who work with them start to yank their arm roughly.

“Mm! Mmm!!” Sky struggles to let his arm go, making the acting look like real. Hearing Sky is grunting and groaning, Alex also does the same.

Feeling disturbed by the kids’ noise, the leader guy yanks the blindfold from Sky and Alex’s face. “Shut up, will ya??! Or I’ll hit your head with my fist!”

Both Alex and Sky look at each other before they start to grunting again. “Mmff…mff…mmm..”

“What should we do, boss?” one of the minions asked.

“Hang their hands on the pole like a pig and bring them to the boss. The big boss wants to see this stupid fella. But, make sure you do not make them bleed. They need to be presented in good condition. You hear me?”

The three-man who was holding Alex and Sky arm nodding their head, understand. Do as their leader says, they hang both of Sky and Alex’s hands on the long steel rod before they both were lifted up and carried to the place which is so unfamiliar to them.

Sky uses this opportunity to observe the place. As he thought, the old cabin is stationed outside the big building, which is camouflaged with white color. The color of snow and it almost hard to notice with sharp eyesight.

The cold weather and wind make both of them shivering and turn their skin like a block of ice. It’s probably below negative two degrees at the outside of the building. While the men who are lifting them wearing a thick coat, they only wearing the suit from the party last night.

The moment they enter the building, the heat from inside makes them a bit warm, and they see a few men working inside wearing casual clothes.

Sky couldn’t guess what this people process in here as there’s only a lot of wooden boxes, some of the areas even have big containers, placed like a mountain high in the warehouse. It is in an anonymous amount. It could cost billions of dollars, judging by how many boxes and people work in this place.

Alex also thinks the same as Sky. He couldn’t believe his eyes that there’s a place which is more extensive than a stadium to only stored thousands of wooden boxes and containers. It must be something costly inside the wooden box, but he couldn’t guess what inside it.

They thought that they will go pass by the processing room, but they did not. The man brings them to the big-sized elevator, which they believe to use for transporting goods to another level of the floor.

Ding!

The elevator door is opened, and what they both saw is really shocking. It’s someone Alex and Sky knows! James!

Of course, Alex knows the man even though he never met him in the past. It’s because he had the same face as his father, except his father is extraordinarily handsome than the old man who looks like a psychopath.

While Sky was totally speechless. If the old man is here then…he already knows about Alex’s existence, isn’t he? He remembers that he heard about the old man’s recording from Dania, which he was looking for a boy named Alex a few weeks ago on the yacht!

“See…I told you, my men treat them nicely.” the man in thick fur coat said while slick his hair to the side. He then signals those men to put them down on the floor.

Thud!

Both of them are kneeling on the cold floor, and with their thin layer of clothes, it is still freezing for a child’s body like them. They start to shiver a little. Waiting for what they might talk about and leak the information for their own use.

“Hmmm…that boy…really look like my own son when he was at the same age.” James standing up and went to the boy.

Squatted down, he pinches on Alex’s chin and lifts it up. “Really look the same.” He mutters it again, and Alex averts his eyes from looking at the old man.

Seeing Alex averting his eyes, James feels like to pinch him more. “Those eyes… It’s not my son’s, but that woman’s eyes!”

“Mm!” Alex squirms when his chin feels like it’s gonna break anytime soon. It’s hurt!

“Mr. James…please hold yourself, or you might kill your own grandson.” the man wearing the thick fur coat grabs on James’s hand before James yank his hands from the grip of that man.

“Huh! Curtis, you should mind your own business. This boy is mine. I can do whatever I want with him!”

Sky gulped. It seems like he already knows the answer to who will be discarded to this place! Since the old man knows about Alex, does it mean he knows about the evidence inside Kiera?

‘Oh lord, this is bad!’

“I don’t really care what you want to do to that boy. However, we still in my place. And I don’t really like the sticky bloodstain on my floor. Please understand it, Mr. James.”

“Right..” James’s standing up again and extending his hand out to his bodyguard, the man pulls out a book of the cheque.

James writes down the price amount as they agree before and hand it over to the man named Curtis. “Is this enough?”

Looking at the amount figure, the man chuckles. “Hmm..it is nice doing business with you, Mr. James.”

Curtis’s then signaling his men again to release Alex from the pole. It makes both of them, once again, look at each other. The moment Alex’s mouth has been untied, he daringly spoke, “What about him? Aren’t you this guy’s grandpa?”

James, who was putting on his gloves stop for a moment when he heard what Alex said. He turns his body around and smirked at him. “You’ve got a gut.”

Alex bit his lips. “I don’t want to go with you!”

Sky trembles a bit. At least he knew Alex will not abandon him. But, knowing how this old man temper, there’s no way he gonna save him.

“You think I care?” James laughed before he signals his bodyguard to take care of Alex.

Just before the bodyguard yanks his hand, he grabs on Sky’s suit, and he uses the opportunity to take away the card on Sky’s pocket. “I will find a way to let you out. Just stay safe!” Alex whispers to him, and that’s the last word he could utter to Sky before he was dragged out by two of James’ men.

Sky could only see Alex’s being dragged, and once they were gone from the sight, he turns his eyes to the man who wears the thick fur coat. It looks like this man probably had some reputation.

But why he isn’t able to recognize this guy? Just who is he? What business that this guy runs? And is there anyone who in the govt back him up? Or is he the enemy of the state?

All of the information that he already extracts is in the card in Alex’s hand without he able to read it first. ‘Dammit Sky, to survive…just play along with this guy!’

“Untie him,” Curtis said, and he went to the single soft sofa before taking a glass of wine and sipping it. Looking down on the boy who’s on the floor covered with dirt.

“Hmmm…I will spare your life if you agree to work with me. However, I’m not someone who can easily trust people. How do you plan to survive?” he straightforwardly asking Sky.

Dumbfounded a little, Sky looks around him. A bit wary of too many people with a firearm on them. “What do you want me to do?”

Laughing, the man put down the wine glass and says, “You’re a bit brave, aren’t you?”

“Well…” Curtis stood up and went to the glass window, “For starter…I would like you…to attack the CIA’s database without being traced down. Only then, I can acknowledge your loyalty.”

“If you make any mistake, even a tiny, you’re dead.” He warns Sky before he nods to his assistant to take care of that child.

‘Huh! Just as simple as that?’ Sky has been forced to follow Curtis’s assistant to another room. To the control room, which it’s only like a playground for Sky.

‘To survive, I’m sorry, dad, Harry, and uncle Raymond…I have to break my promise to you guys and be a bad boy.’