novelraw Chapter 317: Alone Together, a Thousand Explanations are not Enough
Chapter 317: Alone Together, a Thousand Explanations are not Enough
"We were ambushed; we only saw someone injure Jocelyn Yeager and take both people away. We engaged but couldn’t stop them," the trusted bodyguard lowered his head somewhat shamefully.
Melody Cloud was kneeling on a small couch, poised and graceful. Upon hearing this, she checked the latest news and lowered her eyes in deep thought. Who would share the same ideas as her?
"Don’t stir up the rumors. Give him some money and let him go to South America to lay low. He shouldn’t show up for a year."
Melody Cloud instructed indifferently, picking up the black piece in her hand and gently rubbing it. Suddenly, she revealed a thoughtful smile and said calmly, "As for the desperados you hired, who took the money but didn’t get the job done, their reputation is ruined, so there’s naturally no need to arrange an escape route for them."
Melody Cloud asked him to handle the follow-up matters and casually placed her chess piece on the board. As she stood up, she ran into Sylvester Cloud, who was grabbing his coat and hurrying out.
"Where are you going in such cold weather?" Melody Cloud hastily asked.
Sylvester Cloud eagerly said, "Second Uncle has returned from exploring the surrounding islands and mentioned that the Solitary Isles he bought earlier are rich in resources. I’m going to check them out."
The second uncle of the Cloud Family is only interested in sailing and exploring island resources. He has always been an oddity in the Cloud Family. Ironically, Sylvester Cloud, having had enough of traditional education, is carefree and charming. If he weren’t destined to inherit the family business, he might have let everything go and followed Second Uncle on his adventures long ago.
"Be careful if Father finds out, he’ll definitely give you a beating." Melody Cloud snorted coldly, somewhat dismissive. Years ago, Second Uncle strayed from the norm and did things that angered the family, nearly being stripped of his inheritance rights.
In recent years, he has gone away for years at a time and rarely returned to the South Seas, almost being erased from the prominent families there. Father and Mother are very cold to him; only this foolish brother of hers eagerly approaches him.
Sylvester Cloud waved his hand and had already run off excitedly.
Melody Cloud withdrew her gaze. It was late into the night, long past her beauty sleep time, yet she had no desire to sleep.
If the plan didn’t go wrong, Reginald Yeager and Delphine Carter should have set sail and gone south.
Reginald Yeager is ambitious and will undoubtedly make the kidnapping appear as an elopement along the way. Even if Delphine Carter is unwilling, traveling for months at sea, missing for so long, when it’s just the two of them, even a thousand mouths couldn’t explain it.
How could someone as fastidious as Ignatius Leclair tolerate it?
Yet someone came in midway and disrupted their plans. Melody Cloud felt a bit irritable and called Bessie Leclair to inquire about the situation at the Leclair Mansion.
The secret compartment beneath the deck is generally used to store some special resources. Fortunately, the ship they are on should be large enough, and the secret compartment is constructed solidly, like a small room.
Jocelyn Yeager, after much effort, finally untied the thick hemp rope and freed Delphine Carter. Her hands and feet were chafed, and with a deep gaze, he asked, "Are you cold?"
Delphine Carter’s body was so cold it had become somewhat stiff. Both of them had been abducted directly from the banquet, wearing light clothing.
Jocelyn Yeager rubbed her hands to get the blood flowing, then took off his suit jacket and let her wear it.
Only then did he go to check the situation in the secret compartment. He climbed the ladder, but the door was locked from the outside, leaving no way out. Fortunately, the ship had ample collections. Jocelyn Yeager found an intact tiger pelt and some bear skins from the stacked boxes.
He pulled out the fur and covered Delphine Carter, and the two huddled closely together for warmth, at least spared from freezing to death.
As Delphine Carter regained her body temperature, she hoarsely said, "Try to find some medicine. If the wounds get infected, we’re in trouble."
Jocelyn Yeager didn’t move. His handsome face was hidden in the darkness. He reached out to hold Delphine Carter’s icy hand, his voice lowered to the utmost.
"Actually, at the moment of being kidnapped, I couldn’t deceive myself. I was secretly overjoyed. All these years, what I’ve always wanted to do is take you away."