Chapter 441

Chapter 441 Threats

In the cage was a white dog! And Lucia had seen this dog before!

Recently, while she was resting at home, she once took Timothy and Janet out to the night market,

where they

saw a stall selling cats and dogs. Back then, Timothy took a fancy to this dog and insisted on buying

it, but

Lucia refused in the end.

They wouldn't stay in Austos City for long. If they kept the dog, she was afraid they wouldn't be able

to take it with them, so after thinking about it, she didn't agree with Timothy.

Unexpectedly, she saw the dog here!

"Does the dog look familiar, Ms. Mitchell?"

The man in the mask's voice was like a magic spell. With a cold tone, it sounded weird and

unpleasant. Lucia frowned and looked at him in confusion, without replying

The man in the mask wasn't worried. He got up unhurriedly, walked to the cage, lowered his eyes to

stare at the dog, and sneered. "It's okay if you don't recognize it. I'll help you remember it slowly.”

With that, he glanced at a man next to him. The man immediately stepped forward, opened the

cage, and directly put a wire around the white dog's neck.

Lucia was startled. She subconsciously opened her mouth and asked, "What are you doing?"

No sooner had she finished speaking than the man tightened the wire around the white dog's neck.

It seemed that the dog sensed the danger. It started moaning with its two front paws against the

cage...

The man in the mask said in a bizarre voice, "Ms. Mitchell, this dog is just like a five-year-old kid."

Lucia's body tightened. She suddenly thought of something and abruptly stared at him with wide

eyes and astonishment, "What do you mean?"

"Sometimes, it's quite easy to kill a five-year-old kid, actually.”

Just after the man in the mask finished his words, his man started to strangle the white dog with the

wire. The dog clawed at the cage and struggled, sounding painful.

"No... Stop it!" The scene wrenched at Lucia's heart. "What the hell do you want?"

She had never offended anyone! Why should she be threatened like this again and again?

The man in the mask didn't say anything, so his man went on with what he was doing. Soon, the

wire got tighter. The white dog was shaking and its sound was getting smaller. Then, it rolled its

eyes and there was a clear bloody mark around its neck...

Tears welled up in Lucia's eyes. Her voice became more and more feeble. "No... No!"

Finally, the white dog shivered violently and stopped struggling.

At that moment, Lucia felt like being strangled by a pair of invisible hands. Her chest was tight and

she had difficulty breathing, just watching such a cruel scene happen in front of her eyes.

It took a while before she slowly regained her senses. She stared at the man in the mask with

bloodshot eyes.

"Who the hell are you? Why are you doing this to me?"

The man in the mask sneered. "You shouldn't have been with August. He's my enemy. Do you think

I'll spare my enemy's woman?"

Lucia's body stiffened when she heard that. She found herself speechless all of a sudden.

She hadn't thought that these horrible desperadoes were targeting her because of August!

She gritted her teeth, took a deep breath, and denied it. "I'm not his woman!"

The man in the mask snorted coldly and said slowly, "But he is your kids’ father.”

His words came like a bolt from the blue into Lucia’s ears. Her mind suddenly went blank.

She had thought that only she, Paul and Paula knew this secret, but she had not expected that...

She raised her eyes to look at the man in the mask and fored herself to say in a cold voice,

"Nonsense!"

"Really? You know very well if it's nonsense!"

His words rendered Lucia speechless, and in an instant, all her insistence and pretense were gone,

which she couldn't find anymore.

She had never thought that these men already knew her secret.

They could easily find her, kidnap her under Paul's nose, and know Timothy and Janet's true

identities. That showed how scary and powerful they were.

As for her, she had a family with two children and her parents were in Austos City. She was so

vulnerable that she couldn't fight them, even if August would protect her.

To them, perhaps a person's life was like the white dog's life, which they could take anytime and

anywhere.

She couldn't afford to gamble on it, and she had no chips...

At that moment, she was overwhelmed by the strong feelings of fear in her heart. She took a deep

breath and slowly calm down after quite a while. She raised her eyes to look at the man in the mask

and said, "Can you leave me and my family alone?"

"That depends on your choice.”

The man in the mask glanced at her and gave her options. You can either fight against us to the end

or leave

Austos City and August.”

Meanwhile, in Austos City.

Paul paced back and forth in the room. He frowned in a rare moment of anxiety as he made one call

after another. He even asked his police friends to help him find out where Lucia was.

It had been twelve hours since Lucia disappeared.

Paula couldn't stand watching him like this anymore. She got up and said, "Don't worry, Paul.

They're looking for her."

"How can I not be worried?" Paul frowned. "If I hadn't tried to give her a surprise, she wouldn't have

disappeared.”

He clenched his fists with immense remorse.

If he had known this, he wouldn't have left Lucia alone no matter what!

"Paula, whom do you think it is? Who took Lucia away?"

The surveillance camera at the No. 1 entrance to the Moon Plaza clearly captured that Lucia got into a car and left in it after which her

whereabouts could not be found!

Paul shook Paula so hard that her head was spinning. Paula took a deep breath, pushed his hands away, and said, “Paul, calm down!”

At a time like this, the more anxious they were, the more likely something, would happen!

Suddenly, Paul thought of something “Has August called back yet?"

When he could not find Lucia today, he anxiously made several calls. In addition to Lucia and his friends, he also called August twice.

Paul guessed that August might have taken Lucia away for her birthday. It was not impossible. After all, August had done so at the

swimming pool last time.

Paul wasn't sure if he guessed right as August didn't answer.

However, he came to believe that it had something to do with August.

If August had taken Lucia away without telling him, he would teach August a lesson! Paul picked up his phone to check. August didn't cal

or text him.

He took a deep breath, turned to Paula, and said, “Try and call him on your phone.” Maybe August did't want to answer because it was

Paul

Seeing how anxious her brother was, Paula had no choice but to do as she was told.

She tried to call August. Several beeps came from the other end, but no one answered.