Now that they were inside Elisa’s car, Liberty continued to clutch onto her son. Color drained from her face.
The lingering fear had not left Serena.
Elisa called her brother and the moment her brother picked up, she said, “Clive, send all our bodyguards to fetch us from Wiltspoon Zoo. There’s a kidnapper on the loose. Sonny was nearly taken.
“I don’t think I can drive now. What if someone stops the car and kidnaps Sonny?”
This was Elisa’s first encounter with such a chaotic and dangerous situation.
Sure, she was cocky and acted as if nothing scared her, but her legs went weak when Sonny was almost taken.
It would be hard to catch up to the kidnapper amid the chaos if Sonny was really taken…
The thought of it drained the color from her complexion. Her limbs were still shaking as she could not settle down. She was not in a position to drive right now. The last thing she wanted was to get into a car accident.
“What? Is Sonny okay? I’ll send security right away.”
Clive was shocked to hear Sonny was nearly kidnapped.
Ignoring the fact that he had an important meeting to attend in a bit, Clive walked out of his office and called his security team to set out to the zoo.
The two bodyguards in the shadows had already contacted Zack. The first thing Serena did was call Zack once she got a grip on herself.
While Clive was rushing over with his team of security, Zack drove with his security detail to the zoo.
“Sonny.”
Serena stroked Sonny’s back and calmed her sister down. “It’s okay now, Liberty. It’s okay now.”
She nearly put her nephew in danger due to her carelessness.
“Sonny would have been taken if I wasn’t strong. He was a big guy too.”
Liberty mumbled under her breath.
She was relieved that she had been working out to shed the pounds. Liberty did all the manual work at the diner, so she was strong enough to hold onto Sonny tightly.
“Seren, thank goodness you can fight.”
Liberty was glad that her sister took up kickboxing.
Her sister kicked the man the moment she sensed something amiss. The man ran away when he realized he could not take Sonny.
Serena gave Sonny a huge cuddle. Not knowing what was going on, the little man quietly let his mother hold him.
Now that he was in his aunt’s arms, Sonny asked, “What happened to Lucas, Aunt Ser?”
“It’s fine, Sonny. Don’t be scared.”
Caressing her nephew’s head, Serena tenderly uttered, “He’ll be okay.”
Now, Serena was grateful to Zack for assigning bodyguards to protect her in the open and in the dark. God knew what would happen today if it were not for them.
She said, “It’s best not to stick around when something like that happens. Things can happen when the situation gets out of hand.”
The message should be for parents with children.
It was a good lesson to learn.
The Browns were too busy watching the commotion instead of watching over Lucas. It made Lucas an easy target.
Although the kidnapper was quickly spotted, a lot of things were happening in the aquarium at the same time. The kidnapper must belong to an organization, and the Browns did not have the means to save Lucas.
Moving past their differences, Serena assigned two bodyguards to rescue Lucas. She wondered what happened thereafter.
“We’re safe now, Seren. You should ask them to check if Lucas is found. Chelsea is a terrible person, but she’s a mother. I can understand since I’m a mom too. Sonny was almost taken. I can only imagine Chelsea’s panic and pain.”
Liberty hoped her sister could send the bodyguards out to search for Lucas.
They were all on the trip together. There was no way Liberty could go off without checking on the others.
In the end, Serena left a bodyguard with Liberty and Sonny in the car while she and Elisa reentered the zoo with another bodyguard to help find Lucas.
Serena ran into the two bodyguards at the zoo entrance as they were carrying Lucas out.
“Mrs. York.”
The two bodyguards brought the kid, who was screaming for his mom, to Serena. Putting Lucas on the ground, the bodyguard uttered in distress, “Can you give his family a call to pick him up? He’s been crying the whole time.”
“Serena.”
Lucas wailed out of fear.
He had never met the York family’s bodyguards. The boy was taken by a stranger and rescued by another pair of strangers. While Lucas was a wild child, he was only four years old.
It was normal to be frightened to tears.
Serena was someone he knew. Lucas immediately clung to Serena’s leg, asking to be picked up when he saw Serena.
“It’s okay now.”
Although Serena was not fond of Lucas, she needed to soothe the poor child.
Serena dialed Hank’s number and said, “We got Lucas. We’re at the entrance of the zoo.
Come out here.”
The Browns were crying on their knees after Lucas was kidnapped. Mrs. Brown had passed out once. Someone had pinched her nose to wake her, and Mrs. Brown continued to scream the walls down with her daughter.
Hank and George scrambled to look around, having no idea where the kidnapper went.
Following a phone call from Serena, Hank was overjoyed and thanked Serena profusely. He immediately informed his sister and brother–in–law.
By the time Zack and Clive arrived at the zoo with their security teams, the Brown family had found their way out.
“Lucas.”
With her son lost and found, Chelsea charged ahead, put her arms around her son, and burst into tears.
George was relieved to see his son safe and sound.
Mrs. Brown and her daughter hugged Lucas and cried nonstop.
It took a while before Chelsea turned around and fell on her knees before Serena. She thanked Serena and expressed her gratitude. “Thank you, Serena. Thank you for saving Lucas. Thank you.”
Lucas would be long gone if Serena was without bodyguards and did not put the past behind them.
Many families spent a lifetime searching for their kidnapped children but to no avail.
Serena was her family’s savior for sending her bodyguards after Lucas.
Chelsea was not the nicest person. She often drove a wedge between Hank and Liberty when she was Liberty’s sister–in–law. Nevertheless, as Liberty said, Chelsea was a mother.
To mothers, their children were more important than their lives.
Mothers were willing to do just about anything for their children.
“Get up. Please get up.”
Serena helped Chelsea up.
“I’ll help anyone in the same situation. Just don’t forget to watch the kid. A lot of times, tragedy happens when parents take their eyes off the children even for a second.”
Wiping her tears, Chelsea relived the fear and replied, “I won’t be such a busybody anymore.”
“Serena, thank you. If it wasn’t for you…”
The Brown family took turns to thank Serena.
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