Chapter 278 – Love Entangled with Her Unconscious Husband Novel Free (Volume II)

“That‘s Elyette‘s, not mine.” Layla pouted.

“Oh.” The bodyguard responded, but soon realized that something was wrong. “But why are you giving Elyette‘s thing to that woman?!”

“That lady was sent by Elyette,” Layla explained to the bodyguard in all seriousness, “Elyette is a bad person! She said that if I don‘t give the box up, Elyette will kill you. You protect me every single day, how can I let him kill you?”

The bodyguard felt flattered and surprised at the same time. “Why don‘t I feel like that‘s the kind of man Elyette Foster is? If one beats a dog, one has to answer to its master. I am hired by your mother. How is he supposed to explain himself to your mother if he kills me?”

Layla blinked blankly. “So, you are saying that he doesn‘t dare to offend Mom?”

“Yeah! When has he ever bullied anyone in this house? Whether it‘s you and your brother, or your Uncle Mike, he has always been quite polite when he sees you all,” the bodyguard rationalized, “why would he kill me when I didn‘t do anything to him?”

“But I stole from him,” Layla mumbled while tugging at the corner of her clothes. “I stole that box from his house and it contains something really important. Now that I‘ve returned it to him, he probably won‘t be mad anymore.”

The bodyguard felt like there was more to the story, but since Layla had gone ahead and returned the box, there was nothing much left to be concerned with.

Just then, on the highway outside Starry River Villa, the woman who obtained the box called her employer smugly to report the good news.

She had not expected to accomplish her mission so easily. As she had expected, Layla was a simple–minded little girl who would panic at the simplest threat.

It was also sheer like that she had succeeded, because Layla‘s house happened to be empty and everything went smoothly when Layla had no one else to talk to.

Once the call was answered, the person on the other side of the line asked, “how did it go? Did you get it?”

“I did! It went smoothly!” The woman played with the crimson–colored box while sitting on the passenger‘s seat. “I heard that this box contains Elyette Foster‘s secret… It‘s no wonder that you are willing to pay such a high price for it!”

“It means death to ordinary people. Don‘t even think about keeping it to yourself, or you will die,” the employer warned sarcastically, “don‘t take Elyette Foster lightly! If you don‘t get me the box, I will send your personal information to him right away! If I can‘t have it, you are not getting out of the woods either!”

The woman paled in fear. “That‘s not what I mean to say… I‘ve never thought of keeping the box to myself. Money is more promising and I don‘t want to take that big of a risk. Just transfer the money to my account. I‘m already on my way.”

As soon as the woman finished her sentence, a deafening ‘baam!‘ followed as a white car lost control and ran into them.

The woman screamed as the car was sent flying and the heart–wrenching shout was heard by the employer through the phone…

A smug expression had appeared on Wanda‘s face as she was assured that she had the box, but when she heard the screaming, she stood up from her chair hastily and shouted at the phone,” hello?! What happened?! What‘s going on??”

However, there was nothing but static on the other end of the line. She seemed to hear the sound of glass breaking, cars honking frantically and the pained moans of a woman…

All the sounds came together to form a picture of a car crush.

Wanda was stunned.

The person she had sent had obtained the box with such ease that she thought that she would have the crimson–colored box within half an hour, but instead, a car accident took place at such a crucial time.

If there was a car accident, the police would arrive at the scene immediately and all personal effects inside the car would be taken away.

If the police collected the box and realized that the content inside belonged to Elyette, they would contact him right away to return it to him.

Wanda felt like she was going crazy.

She could not allow that to happen. She must hurry over and get the box.

She grabbed onto her phone tightly and her brain went into overdrive. The car crush had likely taken place near Starry River Villa because the woman she hired had contacted Wanda immediately after obtaining the box.

After confirming that, Wanda rushed out of the company and drove towards Starry River Villa.

She arrived at Starry River Villa at the fastest speed she could manage and spotted the scene of the car crash as soon as she drove onto the highway outside the villa.

She got out of the car and stepped towards the crowd that surrounded the scene.

A black car and a white car had crashed into one another to the extent that both were deformed; the scene was chaotic and covered with a terrifying amount of blood. Apart from the blood, the one thing that was most eye–catching had to be the person laying on the ground covered by a large piece of white fabric.

It was not a person, but a body.

Wanda stood amongst the crowd and studied the clothes of the deceased under the white rug… From the clothes alone, she had come to a conclusion that it was the person she had hired.

Her blood instantly ran cold.

‘So what if she is dead? Where is the box?! Where is the box??‘ She thought.

She desperately wanted to rush towards the car to search for the box, but the police officers were taking photos of the crash site and she didn‘t dare to act rashly. If Elyette found out that she was at the accident scene, he would be able to find an excuse to punish her even if she wasn‘t there to look for the box.

Her eyes began to turn red as she stared at every single item that the police recovered from the car; when she saw the blood–stained box being taken out, she felt that she was running out of air and was about to suffocate.

‘That‘s the box! That has to be the box! That‘s the box that contains what I need!‘ She thought and pushed her way forward subconsciously.

One of the police officers opened the box to check what was inside.

Wanda held her breath and widened her eyes to the point that her eyes looked as thought they were about to pop out of her sockets.

She watched as the officer opened the box to have a look inside, before closing it back up and tossing it aside casually like it was garbage.

Wanda stared at the crimson–colored box and the emotions that were boiling within her instantly cooled down.

‘Can…can it be that there is nothing inside that box?!‘ She thought, ‘why else would the police officer just toss it on the ground like that?‘

If there was something in the box, the officer would have taken it out to inspect it; but instead, he opened the box without taking anything out, before closing it back up. It could only mean that the box was empty.

Wanda couldn‘t help but step back.

If there was nothing inside the box, there was no need for her to waste any more time here.

An hour later, Elyette caught the news that the crimson box that went missing from his study room had resurfaced.

The bodyguard brought the box to him and he scowled at the sight of the blood on the box. If it wasn‘t for the fact that the box contained his personal belongings, he would have never lay a finger on it.

He accepted the box and opened it…

When he saw that there was nothing inside, he immediately clenched his fingers and crushed the box in his hand.

“Mr. Foster, they found this box at the scene of a car accident. The couple in the car are both dead,” the bodyguard said, “the police said that the box had been empty from the moment they took it out from the car.”

Who took the content inside the box?

The truth seemed so close, yet so far. The one thing he could be certain of was that the person who took it was around him.

The car crash took place on the highway outside Starry River Villa, so there was a high chance that the box, or the content inside the box leaked from Starry River Villa, it would be hard to explain why the car crash took place there otherwise.

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