恶霸鲁尼 奖学金

Chapter 817  Unfortunate Incident

At Vincent\'s Secret Villa

"Have you seen, Mia?" Jane asked the head butler. She went to her room but she didn\'t see the little girl.

"Lady Jane, she went downstairs earlier to join you and Master Vincent. Didn\'t you see her?" the butler informed her.

"Earlier? I thought she went to her room?" Jane furrowed her eyebrows.

"She forgot something to tell you so she returned to talk to you."

Jane had a bad feeling about this. She was talking to Vincent a while ago and she didn\'t notice Mia at all.

\'Wait. Don\'t tell me she overheard our conversation?\' "Where is Vincent?" Jane asked with urgency.

"He left the house, Lady Jane." the butler responded anxiously. He could sense that something was not right.

"Check the CCTV footage. Look for Mia immediately!" Jane ordered the butler as she decided to search Mia around the house.

"Okay, Ma\'am."

The head butler sprang into action. They would face great consequences if Mia had gone missing. They needed to find her as soon as possible.

Jane searched the entire house but to her disappointment, she didn\'t find Mia at all. Panting heavily, the head butler approached her.

"Lady Jane, come. You have to watch this." The head butler escorted Jane to the CCTV control room.

Jane clenched her fists when she saw Mia running away from the house while she was crying. It looked like Mia had overheard her conversation with Vincent.

\'Damn it! I didn\'t mean to hurt Mia\'s feelings. What I have done?\' Jane started to blame herself.

"Let me borrow a car! I will look for Mia outside!" Jane demanded. She was worried about Mia.

The head butler complied with her request. n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

"Inform Vincent about this. Tell him about the situation." Jane thought that they could easily find Mia with the help of Vincent\'s subordinate.

She was about to leave the house when Phoenix blocked her.

"Miss Jane, where are you going?" Vincent gave Phoenix the task of monitoring and watching Jane\'s movement. He couldn\'t let her leave the villa without Vincent\'s knowledge.

"We have to find Mia! She ran away from home." Jane pushed Phoenix aside. Phoenix was dumbfounded for a moment. He was clueless about Mia\'s disappearance so he thought Jane was just making an alibi to leave the villa.

He held Jane\'s elbow tightly and said, "Sorry, Miss Jane. But I can\'t allow you to leave the villa. This is my Boss\' order. I can\'t defy his command."

Jane\'s eyes set ablaze when she heard that. She didn\'t have time to waste. In a flash, Jane turned around and snatched the gun from Phoenix. He wasn\'t able to react right away. Before he knew it, the gun was already pointed at his head.

"I can kill you right now if I want to. I can leave the villa on my own. So don\'t stop me. I\'m doing this for Mia." Jane warned Phoenix.

Phoenix\'s body froze and his body broke into cold sweats. Jane\'s expression was very frightening right now. He could tell that Jane could pull the trigger any time. But she didn\'t. She returned the gun to Phoenix before she walked away.

Phoenix just watched Jane\'s retreating back, his heart still pounding so hard against his chest. \'I thought I was going to die.\'

"Sir Phoenix!" Phoenix turned around only to meet the head butler.

"What\'s wrong?" he asked him.

"Sir, I have been looking for you. I need you to call Master Vincent. I don\'t have the courage to inform him about the bad news. Our young mistress, Mia… she ran away from home!"

At that moment, Phoenix realized that Jane was telling the truth.

"Oh, Shit! We are in trouble!" Phoenix blurted out, cursing under his breath.

Phoenix dialed Vincent\'s number but his number was busy. "Damn. His line is busy. It looks like our Master is talking to someone over the phone."

Meanwhile, at Xu Family Mansion, Nathan arrived, visiting his father and Ethan. The maid escorted him to the living room where Old Man Xu was drinking his tea.

"Oh, you are here. Sit down." Old Man Xu invited Nathan to join him.

"Are you alone? Where is Ethan?" Nathan sat down and noticed that Ethan was not around.

"He went out to see a friend. Why? Are you here to fetch him?" Old Man Xu put down his teacup.

"No. He will be staying here for a while. You have to take care of him. I have some important things to do," Nathan said meaningfully. He was still thinking of a way to stop Jane from marrying Vincent.

But aside from that, the reason he dropped by the Xu Family Mansion was to ask Ethan about the recording he accidentally saw from the robots. He was still confused and he refused to believe about the soul swap. He wanted to ask Ethan about what he knew.

"Don\'t worry. I\'ll take care of him. You can wait for Ethan here. He might be on his way back."

Old Man Xu just finished saying those words when he received a call from the family chauffeur. "Hello, Julius. Where are you now? Are you on the way home?" Old Man Xu asked the family driver who accompanied Ethan earlier.

"Chairman Xu…" his voice was trembling.

Old Man Xu frowned in puzzlement. "What\'s wrong with you? Can you speak calmly?"

"I\'m so sorry, Chairman. Something bad happened. I am currently here in the hospital…"

"WHAT?! Hospital? What do you mean? What happened to Ethan? Is he safe?" Old Man Xu spoke out spontaneously. Nathan turned to his father with a questioning look when he heard his words.

"What\'s going on here?"

Old Man Xu signaled Nathan to wait.

On the other hand, the family chauffeur became silent. He didn\'t know how he would tell his Boss about the unfortunate incident.

"Chairman Xu… I\'m truly sorry… We failed to protect our young master, Ethan. I know we deserve to die… I—" The chauffeur\'s voice cracked as he cried in both fear and anxiety.

"What the hell are you saying?! Where is my grandson? What happened to him?" Old Man Xu angrily punched the table since the driver didn\'t give him specific details of what happened to Ethan. He just kept on apologizing.

Nathan couldn\'t take it any longer. He abruptly snatched the phone from his father\'s hand and pressed it to his ear, listening intently to the driver on the other end. Within seconds, his eyes widened in shock, and the phone slipped from his grasp, falling to the floor as he stood frozen in disbelief.