Chapter 223: Possibility

Pierre gave her a glass of tea and helped Lucia to drink after realizing that Lucia's body had looked weak and shaking since she returned home a few moments ago.

Seeing Lucia's condition, which still looked shaken as if something sad had happened to her, made Pierre decide to postpone the question he wanted to ask about where had Lucia gone during the past month?

Even though she didn't make a sound, her tears still continued to flow. She couldn't believe that Leo had really left her. Even though yesterday they were still lying on the same bed and sharing a blanket to keep their bodies warm. She couldn't believe this would actually happen to her.

"Are you okay? How about I take you to the hospital?" Pierre asked while touching Lucia's head gently.

Lucia shook her head slowly, she refused to leave her house at this time and she didn't want to go anywhere because it would only make her think more about Leo.

She took a breath and exhaled slowly, she felt a tightness in her chest and for a few moments she thought about disappearing from this world because she couldn't bear the burden and pain.

A few minutes later, the sound of the bell was heard. Pierre, who seemed to already know who was coming, immediately walked towards the entrance to open the door.

Bryan and Chris's faces appeared behind the open door, just as Pierre had expected, their faces looked worried, but also relieved at the same time.

"Where's Lucia?" Bryan asked.

"In the bedroom, she is resting!"

"Oh shit, I have to talk to her!" Said Bryan, who barged in hastily because he couldn't wait to immediately interrogate Lucia with the questions that had been bothering him for the past month.

"What do you want?" Pierre asked. Meanwhile, Chris seemed to restrain himself after realizing that the situation was still not right to force questions on Lucia.

"I want to talk to her!"

"It's best to hold back your questions for now. She looks so shaken and doesn't want to say anything to me at all. I'm afraid she experienced a difficult condition while she was missing. That's why-"

"If she is in a dangerous situation, we must urge her to speak now! If we delay, then whoever put her in danger might be gone and we would have no chance of catching him."

"You're right, but I feel that Lucia looks in pretty good physical condition and is well maintained. She's not injured and I don't see any bruises or wounds on her face or body. It's just that she looks very depressed and suffering."

"Depression?" Chris asked.

"Oh damn, it's definitely because that bastard's ex-fiancé did it. We have to report it to the police immediately."

Bryan couldn't be as calm as Pierre or Chris. He was too angry after months of spending all his time and energy to find Lucia's whereabouts.

"I got a call from the police this morning. They found the house where Lucia was thought to have lived for the past three weeks. However, when they searched the house, the house was empty and the occupants had run away shortly before the police entered."

"Home? But why didn't the police contact me?"

"They think the three of us are on the same page, so whoever they contact I don't think it matters. They've said for the past three weeks that Lucia has most likely been living in Dunnington with a man."

"In Dunnington? She went as far as York? Who was the man with her?"

"From his characteristics, it is clear that this man is not Lucia's ex-fiancé Jacob. But a different man."

Hearing Pierre's statement, Bryan and Chris fell silent with shocked expressions as if they couldn't believe what they had just heard. Lucia, who they thought was taken away by a psycho ex-fiancé, actually lives with another man.

"What do you mean?" Chris asked. He didn't know what other conspiracy this was.

Pierre took a deep breath and exhaled slowly. He recalled his conversation with the police this morning when the police reported their very surprising discovery of an abandoned car in the middle of a forest area.

"I don't know, but when the police mentioned the characteristics of the man who allegedly lived with her, I was sure that man was Leo."

"Leo? What do you mean Leo? He hasn't even answered my emails since I decided to ask him for help?"

"I don't know, but the man is tall, sturdy, has dark brown hair and looks very familiar to Lucia from the statements of several people who have met them in the city, I'm sure that man is Leo."

"Oh no way, how could he-" Bryan was lost for words. He really didn't understand what was actually happening. Since realizing Lucia was missing and he decided to contact Leo via a mysterious website that was connected directly to him, he was sure there was no response from Leo after the lack of response he received. But how could Lucia suddenly be found with Leo?

"Maybe he has actually read your message, but chose not to respond directly." Chris said. Even though this is just a guess, it seems that this is the most reasonable guess so far.

"But why is he hiding this? What is that bastard actually planning?"

"Bryan, when you contacted Leo on that website, did you have any other requests besides finding Lucia's whereabouts?"

"What do you mean?"

"A few days before the police found the house where Lucia and the mysterious man had allegedly lived for several weeks, the police found a car that was thought to be Jacob's car when he took Lucia away, which could be seen from the apartment's CCTV footage. The car was covered in snow and it looked like been in the middle of that forest for four weeks."

Bryan, Chris and Leo looked at each other with the same bad feeling. Because all they had known about Leo was about how dangerous he was.

Even though they didn't want to guess, there was only one worst possibility they could think of, namely Jacob's death at Leo's hands.

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