Chapter 400 – An Unbreakable Vow with the Heartless Tycoon

Andrew smiled. He stopped the car seeing Leilani still held her chest.

“Let’s stop for a second.”

Leilani looked outside the window. On either lane was l.u.s.trous and unknown trees. There were also fireflies. She opened the window and grabbed one to put it in the car.

The firefly gave off flickering light in the narrow and dark space. It stopped on the rear end mirror. Leilani reached out to touch it. It flew away.

“Who do you think will benefit the most from Logan’s death?”

“His wife, certainly.”

Andrew shook his head and gave an unexpected answer, “Waylen’s grandfather.”

“Why?”

“Mrs. President knows nothing about politics. But if Waylen marries Rebecca, the power would slide away to the Bamford family.”

“Do you mean Molly will become his puppy?”

“Mr. Bamford is a hegemonist. The city is not enough for him. Don’t you realize he spends far more time in B Country over the years?”

It was true.

“He tried everything to make Waylen marry Rebecca. It must be a political influence. Mr. Bamford wouldn’t do anything that compromised his interest.”

“What if Waylen refused?”

“Do you think that’s possible?”

Leilani was frozen at Andrew’s rebuke.

“Mr. Bamford is a man of means. Do you want to bet on it?”

“Just drive,” Leilani didn’t respond. She was too fl.u.s.tered to continue hearing.

She couldn’t deny Andrew made sense. All she could depend on was Logan returned to B Country safely. Then she might have a chance.

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At the altar, Logan held Olivia in a white dress out in his arms. He finally touched her bright and handsome face.

His cold eyes were replaced with passion soon. She finally came back to him after all the years.

When he held her, he could give up the presidency for her. She was finally his again after all the years.

“Sir, the mountain is about to collapse. We have to leave now,” Tinder hurried to say.

The mountain started shaking fiercely again. Rocks of all sizes fell down.

Logan took a black overcoat on top of Olivia to protect her.

Then he started to leave. But the falling stones kept getting more and more.

The cave was shaking. The bodyguards couldn’t stand upright. Some were struck by the rocks.

Tinder followed Logan. He kept the stones away from his with his body and arms. He was bleeding.

Logan was in no better condition. He bent over and kept the stones away from Olivia. The stones kept falling down. Logan felt his inner organs all crushed. Blood came out from his mouth.

“Sir!” Tinder held up Logan, who was half-kneeling on the ground. Soon a rock hit them. It was lucky that it wasn’t a big one. Or it probably would kill him.

But Tinder still protected Logan with his body. He looked up at the door.

“Sir, the door was locked by the stones.”

Boom!

There was a loud noise from behind. Leilani turned back. Under the moonlight, the altar mountain that she could see vaguely had numerous. She didn’t know the boom came from the mountain or the sky.

Leilani held her chest and said in her mind, sorry, mom.

Andrew seemed to read her mind. He grabbed her hand so tightly.

“It’s not your fault. Blame the president for being too hasty.”

Leilani’s look was grey and lifeless. She couldn’t stop crying. Her tears fell down on Andrew’s hand back.

“When a man is crazy “for a woman, that’s what he does. He doesn’t think of consequence at all. It has nothing to do with a man’s age.”

Andrew meant Logan and himself.

Andrew put his head out of the window and up in the sky.

“It’s raining. We have to be faster. After everything is finished, I’ll come back with you if you beg.”

“Nonsense!” Leilani pushed his hands away. She took a tissue to wipe her tears.

Leilani smiled languishing.

“I don’t know. Maybe the one with you at last…”

“Drive the car. If you don’t want to, I’ll.”

They could only hear the engine and the rain stroking against the windshields. It was raining and kept raining heavier. There was thunder and lightning.

Andrew drove to the suburban area. Soon they arrived at an unknown town. It was raining too heavy, and they had to find a place to stay in.

The phone received signals. The first thing Leilani did was opening her phone. A message she saw at first.

Diana texted her the rendezvous point. She searched for the place. It was not the hotel but a giant playground.

It was scheduled at 2 in the afternoon the next day.

Leilani guessed they could barely make it from their location with the fastest speed. But before then, she would hurry to find Waylen at the castle.

She wanted to give him a surprise.

The weather was better compared with the storm the day before.

Leilani couldn’t ask Andrew to drive her to the playground. She asked him to drop her off at a mall. She watched him drive off, stopped a taxi, and got to the playground.

There were plenty of people. They were mostly families.

Leilani stood at the gate. She looked around. The playground was the last place she thought Diana would choose. She assumed Diana would want to meet somewhere private like a coffee.

Leilani felt her sleeve grabbed. A child with vanilla icecream pulled her sleeve.

“Miss, your locker number is 1007.”

Leilani bent over. The kid had ice cream all over his mouth. Leilani was about to take tissue out from her pocket when he wiped it clean with the back of his hand.”What locker?”

He pointed at the locker by the gate and ran off.

There are hundreds of lockers. 1007 was on the right corner.

Leilani took out the card she was given by the clown and had it swiped by the machine. It opened.

One card lay in the locker. On it was a long line with numbers and letters. It looked like the car registration number.

It was hard to track the car down in a crowded place with cars.

Leilani came to the open garage. A driver came out from a black Cayenne. Leilani lowered to check the registration number. It was the car.

“Miss Peters,” the driver lowered his head to greet Leilani, “Diana asked me to pick you up.”

“Why should I trust you?” Leilani took half a step back.

“There is a code if you don’t believe me,” the driver nodded and lowered his voice, “Zuri Hotel’s cherry.”

“There are a dozen cherry trees,” Leilani had to give it to Diana for her prudence. Was this because Mr. Bamford was watching her?

Leilani got in without hesitation.

The car drove on. Leilani didn’t know where it was headed. But they were still downtown.

It stopped at a big museum after a while.

Museum?

“Miss Peters,” a bodyguard opened the door for Leilani.

This was a dinosaur museum. There aren’t many visitors. Inside was various fossils, dinosaur eggs, and skeletons shielded by glass tanks.

Leilani followed the bodyguard insider. The longer they walked, the fewer people they saw.

They kept walking until the last exhibition hall. On the glass door was a “not open to public” sign with bodyguards outside.

The bodyguard opened the door and closed it after Leilani went through.

In the middle were a few display cabinets with some plant fossils from the Jurassic period.

In front of her was a figure with his back at Leilani. The person seemed to look into the ancient legacy.

But it was not a woman but a man.

The man slowly turned back.

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