The arrogant smile on that man's face made Frank sick to his stomach as he forced the words through gritted teeth. "What the hell do you want from me?"

"Since we met each other in this life, let's be friends." The man slowly put down his gun and added, "I want you to stay in our villa for a few days. I'm sure you won't mind, will you?"

"You..."

Before Frank could finish his words, a strong blow to the back of his head knocked him unconscious.

"Take him to the Maple Pavilion!" The young lord glanced at Frank as he was falling down and said, "By the way, run a check on his information. I want all the details!"

"Yes, sir!"

The man's pensive smirk implied that there was something about Frank that had him very intrigued.

"I need to meet those guys outside the villa. Follow me!" As Frank's lifeless body got dragged away, the man rushed out of the villa with several people behind him.

In the Lan Family house in R Town.

William woke up early in the morning and decided to stay in bed with his eyes wide open.

"Uh..." Mary muttered as she turned over and faced William with her little red face.

"You should get some more sleep," whispered William as he turned to look at her and then chuckled to himself.

He wondered how Frank was doing.

It was not until after the sun rose that Mary woke up from her slumber. She didn't have anything to say to William, so she rolled around in bed, idly playing with her phone.

"May I come in?"

Suddenly, Aunt Amy's voice came from outside.

Mary's eyes immediately jumped from the door

inutes he drove out of there without wasting another second.

Mary stood there gawking at the car as William drove past her looking focused and serious in the driver's seat.

Had he forgotten about her?

Needless to say, Mary ran after the car as fast as she could.

She kept running even though she was out of breath.

Unfortunately, despite Mary's best efforts, she couldn't keep up with William's car.

"William..." All of a sudden, Mary fell down on the ground and buried her face between her palms, crying inconsolably.

Her surrounding consisted of exquisite villas with colorful birds chirping on the trees, people out jogging leisurely, while Mary sat on the road bawling her eyes out, oblivious and uncaring to the world around her.

"Who is she? Why is she crying?"

"I don't know. It's none of my business!"

"Just keep walking. Maybe something bad happened to her!"

"Run! Run!"

Occasionally, one or two passers-by walked away as they seemed to be frightened by Mary's situation.

"Ring, ring, ring..."

Her phone kept ringing this whole time.

"Hello?" Finally, she decided to fish her phone out from her pocket and answer the call. She looked as though someone had drained the life from her eyes.

"Mary? What took you so long to answer the phone? Is something wrong?"

Mary couldn't help sobbing again, like a person deprived of all hope. "Woo... "

"What's wrong? Where are you? Did William hurt you again? Where is he?"

"Waah..."

"Mary? Mary? Stop crying! Damn it! Where are you? I'm coming to you right now!"