CEO's Passion: Love by Mistake

Chapter 1771

Chapter 1771 The Clue

Sean reached out to touch her face.

Instinctively, Natalie wanted to sidestep and refuse.

However, the thought of the lipstick in the sink behind her made her forcefully restrain herself from avoiding his hand.

Worried about exposing the view behind her, she refrained from tilting her head, fearing that he might notice the lipstick.

Sean seemed pleased with the woman's lack of evasion as he gently caressed her face with the back of his hand.

A ticklish sensation spread across Natalie's face, but she also felt disgusted and nauseous. It was as if it wasn't a hand on her face, but a repulsive bug.

Even though Sean could see the disgust in her eyes, he chose to ignore it. He continued to caress her face as if he wanted to touch every part of it, then memorize it in his heart.

“I'll take you to a wonderful place. A place just for the two of us, and where you'll never see Shane and your three children again,” Sean finally replied.

Natalie looked at him in disbelief. “What did you say?”

A place with just the two of us? Isn't that hiding me again? Does he want to confine me somewhere?

Sean lowered his gaze to conceal the emotions within. “All right, Nat, it's getting late. Come with me.”

As he spoke, he reached out to grasp her wrist. Ccontent © exclusive by Nô/vel(D)ra/ma.Org.

Natalie immediately pulled her hand back. “I'm not leaving. I'm never going with you, Sean. You'd better give up this idea.”

The man gazed at his empty hands, showing no signs of anger, yet his expression remained mysterious as he spoke. “Nat, you will come with me. There's no other option for you. You have no other path to choose.”

After he finished speaking, he pulled something out of his pocket and waved it in front of her.

Natalie could only smell a fragrance wafting into her nostrils. Suddenly, her vision began to blur, and her body started to feel weak.

Immediately after, her body swayed. Unable to stand any longer, she fell forward.

Natalie's forehead bumped into Sean's chest. The man wrapped his arm around her waist, his gaze falling on the lipstick by the sink behind her. He smirked and said, “What a silly woman. Did you really think you could leave a clue for Shane without me noticing?”

In fact, everything she did was in plain sight.

It's just that he had no intention of removing the clue.

He wanted Shane to know that he had taken Natalie away.

Only in this way, his final plan could proceed.

Sean removed his jacket with one hand and draped it over Natalie's face. Then, he cradled her in his arms and walked out of the bathroom.

He asked the people who had been guarding the place, “No one has come over during this period, right?”

“No,” several of them responded. “At first, two women came over. After we scared them off, we sent someone to guard the corridor entrance. Since then, no one else has come.”

Sean nodded in satisfaction. “Let's go.”

They then silently slipped away from the clubhouse.

Meanwhile, at the award ceremony, Lina watched as the fourth speaker was about to finish, and it would soon be her and Natalie's turn. However, Natalie hadn't returned yet, which inevitably caused her to start worrying. “Where has she gone?” she muttered, “No one's answering the phone, and it's even turned off.”

Just as Lina was getting anxious, debating whether or not to go to the restroom to find her, Shane arrived with his bodyguards.

He spotted Lina, but he didn't see Natalie. His eyebrows furrowed, and he walked over, asking, “Where's my wife?”

Upon seeing him, Lina's eyes lit up as if she had spotted her savior. She quickly responded, “Mr. Shane, great that you're here. Nat went to the restroom about ten minutes ago and hasn't returned yet. It's almost our turn to go on stage. I tried calling her to hurry back, but her phone was switched off. Could you please send someone to check on her in the restroom? It's impossible that she switched off her phone because she has more than half of her battery left. There must be a problem.”