“This isn’t a good place to talk, Miss White! Why not get on the yacht first?”
The two men exchanged nervous glances and continued to urge Natalie to come aboard.
Natalie’s suspicion only grew.She narrowed her eyes and instinctively took a step back.
“Throw me a phone first.I want to call my family to tell them that I’m safe now.”
The strong man was obviously about to lose his patience.He said in a booming voice, “Get on the yacht first.I’ll give you a phone after you come on board.”
Natalie gritted her teeth and took another step back.Now she was certain that these two people were not here to rescue her!
Seeing that Natalie had seen through them, those two men just dropped the act.
“Fuck! She knows! Go and capture her!”
The strong man roared agitatedly.The lanky sailor jumped off the yacht and rushed toward Natalie.
Natalie quickly climbed to the top of the reef.She looked over her shoulder only to find the two men at her heels.
Left without a choice, she jumped off the edge of the reef and swam away as fast as she could.
“Boss, she jumped! Oh, God! I’m scared of heights!”
The lanky man stared at Natalie, who was getting away.But the edge of reef was too steep, and the sea seemed so far down below…
The muscled man rushed over and smacked him on the head in exasperation.
“You coward! Why are you just standing here? Jump and catch her!”
“But boss, she’s so far away already.How can I catch up with her?”
The muscled man looked at Natalie, who had already put some distance between her and them.
He gritted his teeth and hissed, “Forget it.We won’t be able to catch up to her now.Go back to the yacht and sail to the other side of the reef.We can definitely stop her from there.”
The thin man nodded in agreement.
The two men hurriedly ran to the yacht and drove in the direction Natalie had escaped just now.
The yacht sped through the waves and made it to the other side of the reef minutes later.
However, there was no sign of Natalie.
“Damn it! Where did she go?”
The lanky man scratched his head in confusion and craned his neck to search for Natalie.The muscled man lost his patience completely at that point and punched him in the gut.
“Look carefully! We might’ve just missed her!”
The two of them sailed around the reef twice more but still didn’t see Natalie anywhere.
“Did she manage to swim away?”
“Weird.How could she swim so fast? Let’s keep looking over there.” The lanky man nodded and drove the yacht farther away.
Still, there was no sign of Natalie.
The lanky man had sharp eyes.He suddenly pointed at something floating in the distance and shouted, “Look over there! The woman was wearing that coat just now!”
The muscled man scratched the stubble on his chin and mused, “Is it possible that she drowned?”
They had searched around the reef carefully, but they didn’t see Natalie.They did find her coat, which was floating far away from the reef.Was it possible that she was too tired to keep on swimming and drowned?
Unbeknownst to the two men, Natalie was clinging to the side of the reef, panting breathlessly.
In fact, she didn’t swim away at all.She was painfully aware that she couldn’t outrun their yacht, so when those men went back to their vessel, she left her coat in the sea, swam back to the reef, and hid in a shallow stone cave.She hoped that they would think she drowned and give up looking for her when they saw her coat floating in the distance.
Natalie hadn’t had a proper meal in several days.It took all her remaining strength to escape just now.She squatted weakly in the stone cave, trembling from the cold and hunger.
Things couldn’t be that simple.
The sudden landslide, the car accident, and now the hit men who tried to kill her…
All of a sudden, it dawned on Natalie.
Her “accident” was no accident at all.
Charis waited for what felt like an eternity on the shore when the yacht finally came back.
“How’d it go? Jimmy told me you found her.So where is she?”
Charis looked around the yacht but didn’t see Natalie.Her eyes went wide in fury.
“You didn’t lose her, did you?”
Then lanky man called Jimmy glanced at his companion John and stammered, “We did find her, and we tried to trick her into getting on the yacht…But she somehow figured out that we weren’t from the search and rescue team, so she tried to escape and jumped into the sea. noveloz comAfter that, John and I looked for her, circling the area countless times, but we couldn’t find her.We only found her coat floating alone.She…She must’ve drowned.It’s the only possibility.”
Charis’s eyebrows shot up dubiously.
“Really?” John nodded seriously.
“Natalie should be dead.She jumped off a very high reef and swam for a long time.And I heard there are many white sharks in that area.Even if she didn’t drown from exhaustion, she most likely would’ve been eaten by the sharks.”
Charis grabbed Natalie’s coat and clutched it tightly in her hands.She felt no sense of relief.
Over the past couple of days, she had secretly sent a lot of people to look for Natalie, trying to get rid of this woman before anyone else found her.
She had already made Brandon take the drug that would erase his memory.
If Natalie showed up again, it would disrupt her plan.
“You can’t even catch a girl! You losers! Go back to the reef and check again! Sheisn’t that stupid.I doubt she drowned! Even if she’s really dead, I wanna see her body!”
Because they only found Natalie’s coat and not her body, Charis wasn’t convinced.
“The sun’s setting.How can we look for her in the dark? It was you who asked us to drown her.You forbade us to use any weaponry, and that was why she got away.If we could’ve used our guns, we would’ve shot her on the spot.”
John was angry.He had never gotten a job wherein the method of killing had to be so specific.
Charis had ordered them specifically to drown Natalie and then bring back the body.
That way, everyone would believe that her death was an accident and no one would suspect foul play.
That was why she didn’t allow the hit men to use any weapon of any sort, lest they leave any suspicious marks on her body.
“How many times do I have to tell you that you have to make it look like an accident? If there is a gunshot wound on her body, the White family will find out that it was murder.You are all idiots!”
Jimmy rubbed his temples and complained, “But it’s getting dark now.We won’t be able to find her even if we tried.There are only reefs in that area, and there’s no food or fresh water there.Even if Natalie is still alive, she won’t last long.”
“Jesus Christ! Forget it.Let’s call it a day.”
Charis still felt uneasy, but she knew that the chances of surviving after jumping into the sea were really low.Besides, she knew that the White family was also searching for Natalie nearby.If her men ran into theirs, things would be more troublesome.
Therefore, Charis dismissed most of her men, leaving only a small group to continue searching for Natalie near the reef area.
When Brandon peeled his eyes open, he saw a plain, white ceiling.
Then he saw that he was hooked onto an IV.
The clear liquid in the infusion bottle slowly but steadily made its way into his body.
He wanted to sit up, but found that he didn’t have the strength.
What’s more, he felt particularly dizzy and tired, as if something was taken away from his body.
Lying weakly in the bed, Brandon tried to recall what had happened and why he was in the hospital.
But try as he might, he only felt a splitting headache.
The pain was so extreme that it hurt to even think.
“Is anyone there?” Brandon shouted at the door warily.
No one answered him.
He reached for the phone on the bedside table to call someone so as to find out what had happened to him, only to realize that the device in his hand was completely alien to him.
How strange! What surprised Brandon even more was the date on the phone.
How ridiculous! How could he have been asleep for two years?
His first reaction was that the date on his phone was wrong Maybe Garrett was just trying to prank him.
He put the phone down and yanked the infusion needle out of his arm, intending to go find someone to talk to.
However, when he looked up at the electronic clock on the wall unintentionally, he was stunned by what he saw.
The date displayed on the electronic clock was indeed two years later.
Brandon felt helpless.
