I've Been There Before

Chapter 203 A Gamble

When Caden arrived at the hospital, he only saw Gloria, but not Grace. Gloria was already asleep when he arrived.

Kirk knocked on the door, Gloria woke up with sleepy eyes.

“You alone? Where is Grace?”

Caden’s face darkened, but Gloria showed no signs of a guilty conscience, “Grace said she was thirsty and went downstairs to buy some water. Didn’t you see her on your way?”

She could help Grace escape, yet she couldn’t let this man in front know about her escape. Gloria was still Gloria, she could risk helping Grace just for the unspeakable insistence that had been buried deep inside her heart for many years.

But she would not put herself in danger to help someone.

Facing Caden, Gloria would definitely not confess.

Another thing was that she saw the determination in Grace. A tremendously strong will drove this silly woman to risk everything in order to escape.

Caden touched his eyelid. Starting from a while ago till now, his right eye’s eyelid kept jumping continuously. He started to feel panic for no reason.

“Go, go find her!”

Kirk and his men got the order and executed it immediately. They searched every corner of the entire hospital, but still found nothing.

Caden’s handsome face was icy cold. Without a word, he walked straight to the dean’s office.

“My wife is lost. I want to see the camera.”

He didn’t talked nonsense, and the dean was also scared, asking his subordinates to get the camera after hearing that Caden had lost his wife.

Gloria stood behind Caden. She was actually nervous, but she knew that she couldn’t panic at this moment.

The man’s sharp black eyes located on the screen, and his body didn’t move at all. Suddenly, a scene caught his attention, his eyes shrank. He shouted urgently: “Stop!”

“Forward 15 seconds, enlarge it.”

After a series of orders and actions, the computer screen soon revealed a motionless scene. The screen was gradually enlarged at a certain ration. As the screen was enlarged, the intelligibility decreased accordingly, but the man still recognized the woman from the screen.

She got in a taxi. Caden took out his phone and made a call back home, with his hands trembling… He held the almost impossible hope to make this call,

“Is Grace, at home?”

“Madam?” the butler immediately answered: “Haven’t you found Madam? Kirk told me that she was already found…”

Splat…

No need to ask, she didn’t go back home at all!

As the phone dropped to the ground, Gloria saw the man’s tall and strong figure shook. He almost fell onto the ground if not the support from the desk.

At this moment, Gloria somehow felt pitiful for this man.

But, Caden was still Caden. The next second, he looked grim again, turning around suddenly: “Kirk, check all the flights, trains, long-distance cars that took off today and the ticket purchase for each. See if my wife buys a ticket.” Her ID card was still in his place… No… No! Without her ID card, she wouldn’t be able to purchase the tickets for flights, trains, or long-distance cars. The man stopped Kirk at once, who was about to leave,

“Hold on.” His black eyes scanned across the motionless screen, “No need to check those things. Check this car, the highway exit payment, and track this taxi!”

After hearing this, Gloria’s heart shrank a bit! Her beautiful eyes instantly moved onto the screen. Unluckily, the license plate number of the taxi was seen in the camera.

If it wasn’t her strong mental quality, she would have already exposed herself.

Kirk took action fast. The Shaw family was a wealthy family that had been rooted in this city for a long time. They had unique means to search things like this. Ten minutes later, Kirk replied: “Boss, forty minutes ago, this car left the city.”

“As expected!” As expected, the obedience of hers was fake.

He closed his eyes, clenched his fists forcefully and smashed them on the table. The table was cracked open, and blood streamed from his fists to the table… It wasn’t that she had perfect acting, it wasn’t that she pretended it well. It was him! It was him who wanted to deceive himself!

How could he forget that night, in which that woman really wanted to kill him?… He deceived himself that if they had a child, she might stay.

It turned out that she had never given up the chance to escape!

His closed eyes suddenly opened. The determination to gamble came across his eyes: “Go! Go find her!” Don't imagine that it was possible to escape from him! He would rather die in her hands than letting her run away from him!

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When Caden determined to gamble, Grace also determined to gamble with everything she had!

This was her only chance!

An almost two hours ride, with the extra payment she gave the driver, she finally made it to the Hangzhou airport in one hour and a half. She bought the ticket after getting into the taxi. It was a flight to Xiamen.

The reason why the ticket was for Xiamen instead of Lijiang was that she actually bought the ticket after begging to use the taxi driver’s phone. After that, she sent the electronic screenshot to her phone that was installed with a new SIM card. The new SIM card was given by Mrs. James who bought it from the black market. And her phone was not tied to any bank card.

She knew that with the man’s capability, sooner or later he would find this taxi driver. By then, he would also know where she went. She then deleted all the records on the driver’s phone. In this way, even if the man found the driver, he wouldn’t know that she had already changed her name. He would at most think that she made herself a new ID card.

If the ticket was bought in the S City, then while she was waiting for the flight, she would easily be blocked in the airport by that man’s subordinates. She didn’t want to take the risk.

She thought that no matter how smart that person was, he would not think that she took the taxi to Hangzhou and then took a plane there.

What Grace did not expect was that she didn’t know the man thoroughly. He was already chasing her.

When Caden arrived at Hangzhou, his face was black and looked awful. He stopped a taxi that was taking a break in Hangzhou, “The woman you just carried, do you know where she went?” Nôvel(D)ra/ma.Org exclusive © material.

It was the first time that the poor taxi driver was surrounded by a group of men in black suits, approaching slowly, “Don’t! We can talk nicely!” What the hack did he do wrong, he just drove someone and now he ran into gangsters?

“Look carefully, is that her?” Caden put his phone in front of the driver as he talked, “This is my wife. She said that I wasn’t considerate enough, and quarreled with me. Can you tell me where she went? She was still pregnant, if anything goes wrong…”

“Oh, young couples quarreling. You should tell me that in the first place.” The taxi driver wiped the sweat on his face, it was really a false alarm: “I sent her to the airport.”

“Airport?” She went to the airport… That meant she must have gotten a new ID card? How could she manage to do this alone? The man’s eyes darkened… The James family!

During this time period, that woman had contacted the James family most frequently!

“Did she tell you which city she was going?”

“It was Xiamen. The most recent flight. That miss… Your wife got off the car hurriedly, saying that she was urgent to handle the boarding procedures.”