Chapter 125


    Noah was at Maple Forest Vi.


    All he wanted to do was give Madeline a scare. Noah could get over it once Madeline admitted to her


    mistake and informed him of Colt’s whereabouts.


    To his dismay, there was feebleness in Madeline’s tone, and her voice faded out in the end.


    Noah panicked.


    Thomas was snacking on junk food upstairs and fooling with the hacker game his dad installed for him.


    Out of the blue, he was picked up and stuffed into a car. The car zipped away.


    Oh, exciting times.


    “Daddy, where are we going now?”


    “We’re going to your mother!”


    …


    Awakened by the chilling wind, Madeline slowly regained consciousness.


    She could feel a pinch on her arm, prompting her to turn her head over. She found a man in ck


    clothes and a ck cap injecting something into her body.


    The realization was enough for Madeline to snap out of her drowsy state. She tried to push him away,


    but it was then she noticed she was tied to a chair.


    “Who are you? What are you doing?”


    “Oh, you’re awake.” The man in ck leisurely pushed the syringe to the end before getting up to look


    at Madeline. There was a hint of ridicule in his tone.


    “Are you the person who came after me on the mountain pass the other day?” Her mind shed back


    to the scene at the hair-pinned road on that fateful day.


    The person behind the wheel of a ck sedan wore the same outfit.


    “My, oh, my. You have a good memory.”


    The answer made Madeline’s heart sink.


    It never urred to her that the man would escape unscathed from the car wreck. Not only that, but he


    also managed to locate her so soon.


    Madeline took a look around to try and ascertain her location.


    She was exposed to the harsh elements, and there was no structural building in sight. She could not


    see any hills or trees nearby. Madeline quickly concluded that she was probably on the roof of a


    building.


    “What do you want? What did you inject into me?” The man’s motives were unclear to Madeline. He


    could have finished her off while she was out of it if it was her life that he was after.


    Unless she was only a pawn. The man could have other ns for her.


    “Don’t worry. I don’t want to kill you, at least not now. Although I don’t want to admit it, I just saved you.”


    The man in ck replied as he put away the syringe in his backpack. He then pulled a chair over and


    sat down next to Madeline.


    “Save me? Don’t tter yourself. Way to sugarcoat a kidnapping. Are you trying to appear cultured?”


    Madeline jumped down his throat.


    “You’re ungrateful, aren’t you? I bet you have been falling ill a lottely.”


    Madeline was taken aback.


    “Alright. Look at the camera. Let’s take a video.”


    Grabbing his phone, the man tapped on the camera app and pulled Madeline into the camera view.


    With Madeline looking shocked in the shot, the man tapped on pause.


    “Don’t pull that long face. You won’t look pretty.”


    Displeased with the video, the man in ck deleted the video and wanted to redo the shot.


    “How did you know I’ve been feeling ill a lottely? Who are you?


    “I have a different face now. How did you recognize me?”


    Madeline got over the shock and asked.


    “There’s nothing in the world I don’t know about. As for your face… Ha. That little stunt doesn’t fool


    me.” The man let out a confident smile before turning away to try and get a good camera angle.


    Madeline looked at the man with questions running through her head.


    She felt a lot more rxed after the man injected the drug into her. Thepression on her chest was


    slowly dissipating.


    It did not seem like poison, but why did the man know much about her?


    While Madeline fell deep into thought, the terror began to seep in.


    “Are you one of Lone Wolf’s men?”


    “I guess you can say that.” The man in ck was straight with his answer. It appeared he had no ns


    of hiding his identity.


    “Come on, prettydy. We should get the show on the road and finish the video. That way, I can


    threaten Noah with your life.”


    “Are you trying to use me in exchange for Lone Fox?” Madeline probingly asked.


    She could not think of another reason why Lone Wolf’s men had not killed her yet despite being in their


    hands.


    Madeline was high on Lone Wolf’s hit list after all.


    “Hahaha! You got that right! I have to say, you got brains. No wonder you have Noah’s heart.”


    Laughing rather insanely, the man in ck swiftly circled Madeline like a shark. His quick reflexes drew


    horror in Madeline.


    Madeline had her suspicions that the man might not be a normal human.


    Maybe Lone Wolf had found a way to unlock human potential and push the body to the limit.


    With a burst of chillingughter echoing in the dark of the night, Madeline stayed on high alert as the


    man was light on his feet. Her heartbeat raced.


    “Alright now. The video is done. Do you want to watch it? I can make a new video if you’re not happy


    with it.”


    The abrupt end of the chuckle did not ease Madeline one bit.


    The man in ck stuck the phone up her face. His pale finger tapped on the “y” button.


    The phone yed a scene where Madeline was tied to a chair. She was looking around every now and


    then with horror in her eyes.


    A dark silhouette hung around her surroundings. It was not easy to make out that it was a person, let


    alone get a good look at the face.


    The man managed to make a horror film out of the thirty-second video.


    Nevertheless, Madeline was no longer nervous after the whole stunt.


    The way she saw it, the man in ck was a psychotic nut with a love for art.


    Psychos never yed by the rules. For all she knew, he could throw her off the roof.


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    Madeline needed to find her way out of this!


    “Yeah, not bad, but maybe you should quit videography,” Madeline heartlessly blurted. The man was


    not happy with the remark.


    “Why? Isn’t it good? Did I make you look ugly in there? In that case, why don’t you smile? I’ll make


    another version.”


    The man in ck watched the video and nced at Madeline beforeing up with a verdict.


    “Hey, you’re a strange man. How am I supposed to smile when you have me tied up?” Madeline


    peevishlymented on purpose.


    She then hung back against the chair without a care for her appearance.


    “You have a point. I’ll untie you, but you better not run. Otherwise, I’ll be angry when I catch you.”


    “Rx. I won’t run away, but you better make me look pretty, or I’ll be mad.”


    It was only a casual suggestion to get a feeler of the guy’s craziness. She could not believe that he


    obliged rather quickly.


    “No problem!” The man in ck readily agreed.


    He then loosened the rope around Madeline and gave her “freedom”.


    It felt surreal to Madeline. She ran her fingers along the inneryer of her clothes to make sure her


    devices were still intact before changing positions to find a good angle for the man. She walked to the


    edge of the roof.


    “Alright. I’ll start the video now. Keep that smile going…”


    The man in ck held his phone up at Madeline and gave her pointers to start the shoot.


    Madeline seized the chance to turn around and make a run for it. She leaped and jumped off the roof.