The long night ended just like that.
The light of dawn slowly illuminated the world and awakened the city sleeping in tranquility.
In the hospital, Lucas’s phone suddenly rang.
Karen was pretending to sleep on the bed. But in fact, due to her immense tension and fear, she couldn’t even sleep for a single minute. Her body immediately tensed up as soon as she heard the phone ring.
He casually pressed the answer button and turned the speaker on again.
“Mr. Gray, I have carried out all your instructions! Kairo is already dead, and the Herons have suffered a tremendous blow. They’ll definitely go bankrupt today. Robert Heron is so furious that he’s already been hospitalized, and the rest of the Herons are all just like headless flies overwhelmed with panic. Nikki Heron has already been brought to the Parkers’ and imprisoned. Do you need me to send someone to Orange County?” Damon’s voice was full of excitement.
Apart from the last time, when he was at the Kingston manor in San Francisco, this was probably considered the first task that Lucas had given him, which he had now already completed perfectly.
Lucas praised him calmly, “You’ve done a good job. Keep that woman behind for now. You can’t let her be at ease.”
Damon was overjoyed to receive Lucas’s affirmation, and even his voice became even more excited. “Yes! Mr. Gray, do you have any other orders now?”
Lucas said, “No, I’ll call you again if it’s necessary. Go get some rest.”
Then he hung up and glanced at Karen, who was pretending to sleep.
At this moment, Karen was cowering under the sheets and shivering.
Lucas’s call just now was played out loud on the loudspeaker, so she could hear it clearly.
After hearing the news that Kairo had died and the Herons had ended up in such a miserable state, Karen was so frightened that she broke out in cold sweat.
Her greatest fear now was being betrayed and implicated by Nikki!
Moreover, if this matter was exposed, she would probably end up in a horrible state since the Herons were already in dire straits.
Now, she would no longer be naive enough to think that Lucas would continue to let her off.
What should I do? What should I do? What should I do?! Karen was screaming frantically in her head, but she couldn’t come up with a solution at all.
She was just a housewife who didn’t have any knowledge and whose family was a family of farmers. She didn’t know any powerful people, and they had long been disowned by the Carters. Moreover, the Carters were already in decline now, and there was no way they could help.
The only person with decent connections that Karen was acquainted with was her sister Gretchen’s in-laws, the Herons.
But the Herons were now on the verge of bankruptcy, and Robert had already been hospitalized. Nikki had also been abducted, so she couldn’t count on her at all. She might even end up getting affected.
Who could save her now?
While Karen was feeling the fear of being on the verge of death, Lucas looked at her and sneered without saying anything.
Indeed, he had deliberately turned on the loudspeaker so that Karen could hear the conversation.
He reckoned that she must be horrified after hearing about the Herons’ tragic situation.
The psychological pressure of having a sharp blade hanging over her head but not knowing when it would drop was even more torturous than the physical trauma.
This was the punishment she deserved for attempting to kill others as she pleased!
When the sun rose high in the sky at daybreak, Cheyenne finally woke up leisurely at nine in the morning.
She rubbed her eyes, looked at the time on her phone, and immediately shrieked as she sat up in shock. “Oh my god, it’s actually already so late?!”
She had always followed a regular schedule, where she would go to bed at about 11 p.m. every night and wake up at 6 a.m. every morning, so she was naturally extremely startled.
In particular, she remembered that she had gone to bed before 10 p.m., which was very early.
In other words, she had slept for nearly 12 hours!
Lucas walked over with a cup of warm milk and a sandwich. He placed them on the bedside table next to her bed and smiled slightly. “Did you get enough sleep?”
Cheyenne glared at him. “Why didn’t you wake me up earlier?”
Lucas smiled. “You’ve been really tired lately. How could I bear to wake you up?”
Cheyenne suddenly felt a little embarrassed. She secretly glanced at Karen, who was on the bed on the other side, and whispered, “What are you talking about? Aren’t you afraid of others hearing you?”
But her deep slumber was due to the effect of taking strong sleeping pills after all, so even though she had slept for more than ten hours, she still felt a little dizzy and exhausted.
Lucas said with some heartache, “Does your head hurt? Let me rub it for you.”
He sat behind Cheyenne and pressed his hands on her head.
Cheyenne was amazed. “You… actually know how to give a massage?”
“Yes, I learned a little bit before. Maddy taught me. But I’ve rarely tried it.” Lucas smiled and began to rub and press the acupuncture points on Cheyenne’s scalp regularly.
She could clearly feel herself getting more rejuvenated after the massage. The heavy feeling just now had already vanished, and the dizziness and fatigue were almost gone.
“Hubby, you’re amazing! I really feel much better!” Cheyenne exclaimed in surprise, all smiles.
Lucas smiled warmly.
While the couple was interacting, Karen couldn’t stay any longer.
She secretly got out of bed and scurried away like a little girl when she noticed that Lucas was ignoring her.
Karen finally heaved a sigh of relief when she ran to an unoccupied lawn under the hospital inpatient wing.
All of last night was a huge torment for her!
She took out her phone and immediately called Nikki.
Karen was desperate to find out if Nikki had really been taken away, as Lucas had claimed.
Until now, she still had a glimmer of hope that the phone call Lucas answered had been deliberately made to deceive her.
If this was the case, she probably still had a chance.
But even after she called several times in a row, no one answered.
Karen’s heart immediately sank.
