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Mr Noah took Richie inside the room as they both began to talk on the issue and settled down their mess. None of them wanted to lose the other person thus they both needed to know what had been going on in their minds. The old man took him towards the bed and sat down when Richie went back to the arcade and picked up the tray, he was hungry but did not want to appear as careless in front of his father. Hence he brought the food inside and put the tray on the table in the middle of the room, and picked up the slice of bread and put it in between his teeth. He had a lot of things to say and did not want to stir a quarrel again, hence he kept himself calm and resumed speaking. “So, what do you think about this matter?” Richie brought up the conversation once again since he was the one who potentially killed the chat previously but now was willing to talk. On the other hand the old man wanted to give Richie the chance to do the stuff as he wanted and wished to. Hence he made sure he would give all the authority to him in the matter but at the same time would suggest and guide him all the way along. “I’m still standing by my premise that Elle is abducted. But will still stand by the decision you will take in this matter.” Richardson sat on the bed by his side while munching on the bread loaf, when he gave a genuine smile and an reassuring gesture to the old man. [The next day] Richardson had expected a chaos after the disappearance l of Elle but surprisingly nothing happened. The silence scared him even more that she wanted to run away perhaps and personally he did not like the thought, but he had to stay away from that idea no matter what. “What do you mean by that…. someone else was there too?” Richie was informed by the hired hacker, who told him that Elle told that Elle was supposed to go home that day. No wonder Richie wanted to sort out that stuff by going through everything now, since it had been three days since she disappeared and nobody called him for ransom. He ended the call while shaking his head and assuming that everything would have happened when he left the park and the time span should have been between his office work and the visit to his friends. “I should focus on my own thoughts rather than believing Alessandro. Nobody knows where she is at the moment but I will make sure no harm will reach her.” He did not want to put her in some grave danger just because he was supposed to get married to her. No matter what she was his responsibility, well of course that’s what Elle thought too so she had been counting on him. It was the moment when a knock on the door snagged his attention and he felt like ripping someone’s head for disturbing him, when he had finally been able to focus. “Yes, come in!” He groaned but hid his irritation and permitted the person to walk inside. A young woman walked inside holding a small box which was wrapped in a purple sheet. “Boss, someone left this for you. The parcel has no name and a random man left it to me while I was coming, he said to give it to you.” She sounded nervous and confused at the same time, since who would bring such nameless parcel to a him; even after knowing that it could be dangerous. “Okay, leave it here.” Richie gestured to her and the woman left the box on the table, while he just simply overlooked it thinking that some admirer had sent that. Since he still had been getting such gifts despite the marriage news broke numerous hearts, women had been sending him wishes and a few spouting foul words for Elle. He had gotten such nameless parcels before too and never threw them away, he kept the flowers and ate the chocolates too. I mean who could waste food and let the flowers rot in some stinky bin. However he filed cases against those extreme ones and increased the security around Elle. It was only that day she requested to go out without guards and got abducted. “I don’t know when these people will stop.” He had no clue who was the sender and began to type on his laptop again, when his eyes caught something familiar. “No, no!” He pushed the chair back and shot up from the seat after seeing the ribbon on the parcel, staring at the parcel on the table a series of flashbacks clouded his mind. Richie imminently stepped back and collided with the book rack behind him, his legs trembled and the man slumped on the ground. “This can’t be… no, no. I can’t let anybody ruin my marriage now!” He wiped off the sweat which had fallen on his temples and he did not even notice that, the man mustered up the courage and walked up to the desk and with trembling hands he reached for the parcel. “You have to be calm, man. The kidnapper is deliberately scaring you with Elle’ hair ribbon. He knows your weakness and is taking advantage.” Richie knew that there was a string between them for which she had gotten abducted, or if the kidnapper wanted ransom then why was he still silent. “I have to stop him somehow. I can’t let him leech off my fear.” The man became confident right after he recalled that Elle would be counting on him by now. He opened the ribbon and gulped down his fear after seeing that, inside the box was a USB. Richie had a vague hunch what it could be but he wanted to be sure of that, so he played it on his laptop and his worst nightmare was dancing on the screen. -.-.-.-.-.- On the other side Alessandro walked up to the end of the block and entered a restaurant only to exit it from the back door, so nobody could catch him. And a car with the driver waited for him on the street which drove him to the Rezlee villa. He suspected that the spies of the family might be keeping an eye on him since they found his personal villa which nobody else had else and the letter signed by the elderly Rezlee member reached him via courier. The luxurious vehicle drove through the long driveway and halted in front of a huge villa, having a resplendent outer one could imagine the wealth of the Rezlee family. Alessandro’ family was rich no doubt but they were not a match for Rezlee’s lineage! As soon as the heir entered the villa a jury of maids and servants approached him. “Welcome, young master!” No wonder their eyes darted behind him expecting the someone else too, Alessandro did not know what their questioning eyes meant and looked behind which made all of them curious of his actions. “Cetes Petrakis!” Mr Rezlee junior yelled in an authoritative voice and hurriedly approached him as he had bern waiting for him already. The sarcasm in his voice was so intense that Alessandro could not even bring himself to move an inch or even to speak anything. His sweat beads which had appeared on his forehead out of fright began to travel down his temples, Alessandro had never felt helpless before but in that particular moment he knew that if he said anything which offended the Rezlee family then he would never see the night. The Rezlee family was known to be mysterious and brutal, they were like untouchable beings who stayed in the skies and were beyond everyone’s reach. Their wealth was innumerable and the resources they had all around the world made it an obvious hunch that they had connections with the underworld too. But the question was why did such a family which did not prefer to talk to outsiders or even avoided the business gatherings too, would suddenly call… precisely summon Alessandro Petrakis to their household. The huge villa was in front of his eyes which reeked a mysterious grim aura, similarly the Rezlee junior had been standing im front of Alessandro with his arms folded and a bloodlust expression was visible in his eyes. The whole damned deadly situation made him ponder upon the possibilities which might have led him to that day. ‘I have never been associated with Rezlee family but the only thing which can connect me to them… might be their women.’ No doubt Alessandro was aware of his playboy nature and the first guess he could do was the activity he had been indulged in since his teenage. However his guess could have been true after all the Rezlee junior did seem hungry for his blood and life from the way he called out to Alessandro. ‘Is there any possibility that I had sex with any of their woman? Daughter, sister, mother or perhaps daughter-in-law. What the fuck! Am I going to die here today!?’ Alessandro practically gulped down his fears and felt a hard lump of saliva going down his throat.Text content © NôvelDrama.Org.