Husband With Benefits
Chapter 480: A Saviour

Chapter 480: A Saviour

Seb’s grip tightened on the steering wheel, as he concentrated on the road ahead. The entire place was deserted for some reason and he was not comfortable with this. Adding to that, the news that Rosie had just given him was even more worrying.

"Rosie, are you sure?"

Rosie continued to flick through the papers, scanning the documents carefully, and nodded," Yes, sir. Miss Emma’s accident was not related to Vivienne Dempsey. The guy she bribed spilled everything. He was to drive her off the road and then call you in a panic. But before he could reach her, things had already gone bad."

"So, Vivienne was really not behind it?" Olivia was right, then. After meeting Vivienne last week, she had insisted that Vivienne was not lying, and she had not caused such a major accident. But then, who could it be?

"Are you sure this is not some ploy by her? Maybe she hired two people and..."

"Seems unlikely, Sir. Miss Dempsey seems to be a trust-fund baby. So, she has no other source of income or anyone she might be paying in any other way. We’ve checked reports of all her transaction and even those of her closest employees."

Seb’s jaw clenched, frustration evident in his expression. "Damn it. We’ve hit another dead end. Rosie, I need to find out who caused that accident? If it is not Viv, then who?"

Rosie leaned back in his seat and looked at Seb thoughtfully,’ I don’t know. I’ve checked all your previous lovers and as a matter of fact some of them have indeed received threats to break up with you. And you usually break up with them withing a specific time frame, so things have never escalated. But Miss Emma received a death threat after you visited her in the hospital."

"What about THAT girl?"

"Yeah," Rosie sighed, "I told you.That Girl is out of the picture too. Studying abroad, apparently after you threatened her parents."

Seb shook his head, disbelief mingling with disappointment. "Great. So, who the hell is behind all this?"

Before Rosie could respond, a sudden commotion ahead caught their attention. Seb instinctively slowed down the car, turning off the head lights as they approached the scene. They had not yet attracted the attention of the goons.

A Rolls Royce stood in the middle of the road, its path blocked by a large non descrip van. One need not be Einstein to discover what was going on. This was either a robbery or kidnapping. His eyes narrowed as he looked at the people on the other side. A woman stood with her back against the car as a few men surrounded her. It was clear by the weapons in their hands that they were not going to be easy to deal with.

Without a second thought, he threw the car into reverse, thankful that his car was as silent as the night, and they were not attracting attention. He could feel his assistant turn to look at him and just as he asked," Sir, are we not going to help?", he accelerated forward..

With a sudden burst of speed, he veered back onto the path, the headlights blazing as he aimed straight for the assailants. As the light flooded their vision, the men faltered, stumbling back to shield their eyes from the glare.

He stopped the car between the woman and the assaialants. In that split second, as Seb glanced at the woman who had also closed her eyes,and cursed some more. Vivienne! What was she doing here?

Even as he realized this, Rosie had already flung open his side of the door and pulled her into the car swiftly. In the next moment, they drove off, with Vivienne’s scream still echoing as she gasped for breath.

He floored the accelerator as the would be kidnappers realized what had happened and moved to start the chase.

Vivienne on the other hand was still in the grips of panic as she started to plead," Let me go please! Let me go! I have nothing to do with him!"

Rosie had also recognized the woman in his lap by now and even as he caught her wrist to stop her from clawing, he cast a helpless glance at Seb.

"Vivienne! Vivienne! You are safe now! Open your eyes and look!"

As Vivienne continued to try and escape, her vision clouded by fear, she heard a familiar cold voice. His words pierced through the haze of panic, reaching something deep within her. She froze, as her breath caught in her throat and turned to face him, her eyes wide with disbelief.

"Seb?" she whispered, "Seb Frost?"

Seb gave a wry grin at the disbelief in her voice and nodded," The one and only. Are you angry that I became your saviour? Do you need me to slow down or turn around and send you back to those people?"

Rosie cast a look at his boss. Even now he was in the mood to joke. He could feel his heart still thundering after what happened just now.

The person in his lap seemed to have a similar reaction as she almsot wildly tried to lunge at Seb,’ You! I’ll kill you! Its all your fault!"

Seb’s jaw clenched at this," Vivienne Dempsey! I just saved you! How is that my fault? Do yuo really think everything that happens in this world is my fault?"

"I don’t know about the world. But whenever something goes wrong in my world it is your fault!"

"Hey! You can’t blame me for..."

But before he could finish, Vivienne reached into her pocket, her fingers trembling as she withdrew a crumpled photograph and threw it at him," They gave me this! They were going to beat me up and wanted to leave this with me as a reminder that I should stay away from you!"

Seb’s anger evaporated in an instant. Keeping one eye on the road, in case they were being followed, he glanced at the picture. It was when she had come to the hospital. They’d been arguing, standing toe to toe but they looked close in the photograph as if they were talking intimately...

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