Contract Marriage starring Love and Revenge
Chapter 119. Pagne’s been kidnapped.

Chapter 119: 119. Pagne’s been kidnapped.

{Duke’s POV}

"Gio, have you seen my phone?" I ask. I want to call mom and ask when they’ll get here but I can’t find my phone anywhere.

"Last I saw, it was with the children." He says.

"Well unless they buried it in the backyard while building only God knows what it is their building with Mary, they no longer have it." I just left them outside to come and check for my phone inside so I know they don’t have it.

"Can you just call it for me?" He pulls out his phone from his pocket and...

"It’s ringing." He says. I wait and listen and I hear my ringtone. "I think it’s over there." Gio points towards a couch.

I walk over to it and indeed, the ringtone is louder and I can feel the vibration. I deep my hand into the side of the chair and voilà... "How on earth did they push it into this place?" I say to myself as I end the call of Gio. "Thanks Gio." I say and he nods and walks away.

A smile plays over my lips as I see the notification that Pagne sent me a text. But then the smile quickly fades as a sudden cold-heat wind sweeps into the room, engulfing me to a choking point as I read the text through the notification bar.

Duke, help me. Rowan is kidnapping me.

"Gio! Gio!!" I yell.

"Yes? Is something the matter, Master Grand."

"P_Pa_Pagne." My hands are trembling and so is everything inside me. "She has been taken."

"What do you mean she has been taken?"

A loud thud echoes through the room and I turn around to see Mary standing there with the twins, and Mom and dad. They are all staring at me

"What?" Mom gasps. "What are you saying? What happened to Champagne?"

I dial her number, it’s not ringing. It’s switched off. He must have realized she was texting me with her phone and taken it from her.

"I_ I just saw her text. She says she’s being kidnapped by that bastard Rowan Fletcher!!"

"O_oh my God," Mary staggers and father holds her up before walking towards me.

"Mary please take the twins to their room, I_ I think they need to have a bath." Dad says and Mary nods.

She takes the twins and I can see the worry in their eyes. They probably don’t understand what is going on but they can sense that something is wrong.

"When did she text you?" Dad asks as soon as the twins are gone.

"Oh God." I moan as I realize she had texted me fifty-eight minutes ago. That’s about an hour ago and I’m just seeing it now.

"About an hour ago. I wasn’t with my phone earlier so I just saw it."

"H_have you tried calling her?" Gio asks.

"switched off." I simply say.

"Dad, get the Chief on the line," I say and he nods.

At the same time I quickly dial Stella’s number.

"Hello, sir."

"Yes, Stella, go to the security team right now and have them give you the entire footage recorded today."

"Sir? A_Alright sir. But is everything okay sir?" She asks. She’s Champagne’s secretary so telling her should be okay.

"Champagne has been Kidnapped."

"What?! The madam? But she took the rest of the day off saying she needed to visit the supermarket before heading home."

"So she was going tk the supermarket? What time did she leave?" I ask.

"It was past two when she left."

Past two and she sent the message to me around some minutes past three and it’s past four now.

"For all we know she might not have made it to the supermarket. She might have been kidnapped on the company premises."

"Oh my goodness. Do you really mean the madam has been kidnapped?!"

"Stella, just tell the security team to show you the footage of the parking lot. See if she rode out on her own or not."

"Y_Yes sir. I’ll get back to you sir."

"Dad, I just got info that she was heading to the supermarket. Tell the Chief to send some officers to Lori’s supermarket, it’s the closest supermarket to the office. Let them check their footage to see if she was there and what time she left. To be on a safer side, let him send officers to all the supermarkets they can find between the company and here."

"Alright son." He says and continues his phone call.

"Duke, isn’t there a way you can track her last recorded location even though her phone is switched off?" Mom asks and it finally hits me. How the hell did I forget I connected a tracking app to her phone?

I instantly open the app, and search for her location. "Come on, come on, please show me something." I mumble helplessly as it loads.

"Got it!" I say. "Her last recorded location is just thirty minutes away from here. And that was recorded one hour ago. It matches the time she sent the text." I say as I walk to the shelf that houses the keys to some of my automobiles. "Where are you going?" Mom asks.

At first I pick up the keys to a car, but then I dumb it back on the shelf and pick up something else.

"I’ll go after her."

"Going after her? Duke, don’t be reckless. You don’t even know where she is right now." Mom says.

"I know that, but I just can’t sit here and do nothing. The longer we wait the longer Champagne is kept with that madman. Only God knows what he’s doing to her!"

"Duke—"

"I’ll head towards the location I have now and try to find clues when I get there."

"Duke,"

"Mom, don’t stop me. I—"

"I’m not trying to stop you. I just want to say when you find that bastard, and when you do, you beat the daylight out of him."

"That goes without saying."

"Dad! Keep me updated and—" my phone rings, it’s Stella.

"Hello,"

"Sir from the footage I’m seeing she left the company premises on her own. I looked at other footages to see if there was anyone suspicious hanging around and I found a suspicious cab. It was parked outside the company for a little over an hour and as soon as madam’s car pulled out of the parking lot, it also moved toward the same direction as her. I think the driver, whoever he is, was waiting for her."

"Good work, Stella, send me the footage of the cab."

"Alright sir."

"Dad, new update." my phone beeps and I see Stella has sent me the footage. The cab’s platenumber is clear and. Visible. "While they’re checking for Champagne, I need them to confirm if this taxi was following her." I show it to him." I’ll send you the footage so send it to the Chief.

"Alright. Be careful." He says and I nod before heading out of the house.

I’m coming for you Pagne. And I swear to you I will kill that bastard when I find you. Just wait a little longer for me, my love.

...

{Champagne’s POV}

I’m running and running and I don’t even know where I’m running to. I have no idea where I am. All I can see are endless tall trees. How did I make this mistake? This is the very same mistake people make in movies. Instead of running towards the obvious main road, they run into a forest.

I used to tell myself I would not be a foolish victim who’d run straight into a forest, yet here I am. I don’t even know how I got here.

At that moment all the thought in my head was about escaping Rowan, I didn’t care where I ran to. So I just ran forward without any other reasoning.

Now it’s dark, I can barely see the trees in front of me, I’m holding my heels in my hands but my legs still hurt, my entire body is tired and I can’t run anymore, yet I can’t stop. But what if. I keep going deeper and deeper and I’m never able to find my way out? What will happen to me then?

I’m tired.

I rest my back on a tree.

I want to go home.

Slowly, I slide down till I’m crouched on the ground with my head in my knees and my heels still in my hands.

I’m hungry, I’m thirsty, and I miss Duke.

I’m suddenly pitying myself. I’ve been through so much already, why do I have to get kidnapped by my useless ex-husband?

"God you should have done everything back then to stop me from marrying that bastard." If only I hadn’t met Rowan.

"Even though it was to keep me tied to a hospital for years. Even though I was being stubborn, even though I didn’t ask you about him before I entered that marriage, you should stop me. If I had never married him in the first place, a lot of things that have happened to me now would never have happened."

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