The Consortium's Heir

The Consortium’s Heir By Benjamin Jnr Chapter 134

Chapter 134 [Anthony‘s café] The interior of the café was quiet and serene. It was a bit empty, as not many people loved to have their dates in a café, but one could still see a significant amount of people scattered across different tables laughing and discussing in low voices at a single glance.

Darius was alone in his table, and a cup of black coffee accompanied him on the table. As Darius was incredibly attractive, both males and females kept stealing glances at him, the men jealous and envious, while the females smitten. Some bold ladies even took pictures of him secretly. Darius of course noticed the stares he was getting, but he didn‘t bother about it. Compared to the situation that occurred with the freshmen female students when he arrived in his Bugatti earlier, the current situation wasn‘t worth mentioning at all. He took another sip from his cup of black coffee and let out a sigh. He glanced at the classy wristwatch strapped on his wrist and a frown crept unto his face. He had been waiting patiently at the café for the last thirty minutes, yet there was no sign of Alice. He had less than twenty minutes left before his first class of the session began, and as a model student who had to survive on his scholarship to remain in the university, he didn‘t want to miss the class.

Darius felt angry that Alice had not showed up after thirty minutes. She was the one who called him out of the blue, yet she was nowhere to be found even after waiting so long.

He fished out his phone from his pocket and dialed her number once more, but just like the ten previous times he dialed her number, it was unreachable.

Unable to keep waiting anymore, Darius paid for his cup of coffee, left a generous tip for the waiter, and exited the café.

He walked leisurely to his lecture hall, since it was not very far, and he still had fifteen minutes left. At the current pace he was walking at, he would surely be able to get to his lecture hall on time.

As he walked, an ominous feeling kept hovering over his head about Alice‘s inability to show up, but he couldn‘t place his fingers on what it was. Although he hadn‘t known Alice for long, from the few times

he interacted with her, he knew she would never stand him up without informing him beforehand.

Moreover, she was the one who invited him out this time. It made absolutely no sense for her to not show up at this time. This detail made her shunning the coffee date up even stranger.

However, Darius wasn‘t a god, so there was no way he could tell what was wrong. Still, he didn‘t give up. He brought out his phone and opened the GPS tracker app he recently installed on his phone.

The GPS tracker app was a new app that a subsidiary company of Reid consortium recently produced. It was an app that could track anybody so as long as the phone was with them.

Of course, other competitor apps could easily do this, but this app was very different, as it could pinpoint the exact location of the phone, while other apps would only give you a rough

estimate of the location.

Darius only had the app because he needed to test it at the time it was produced. He had no idea that the app would be so useful now. He silently thanked the department that designed the app as he input Alice‘s phone number into the required box in the app. As expected, it only took twenty seconds for the app to locate where Alice. The moment Darius saw the location, his eyes widened in surprise.

Yale city!

The location of Alice‘s phone read Yale city!

Darius narrowed his eyes that instant. Yale city was more than an hour distance from Kingston University, so why was Alice who offered to treat him to coffee at Anthony‘s café suddenly going to Yale city. What‘s more was that according to the app, the phone‘s location was constantly changing, which meant that she was going even farther than Yale city.Exclusive © content by N(ô)ve/l/Drama.Org.

All of a sudden, the location that was reading clearly on Darius‘ phone went blank out of the blue. Darius was surprised at the sudden blank screen, but chalked it up to a technical issue from the app. He then restarted the app and tried to locate Alice again, but this time he was unsuccessful in his attempts.

Darius immediately smelled foul play, and the ominous feeling that had been hovering over his head finally became clear.

Although there was no evidence showing that Alice didn‘t go to Yale city on her own decision, Darius couldn‘t help but feel that there was a huge conspiracy about these sudden turn of events.

He was 60% sure that she was not going to Yale city on her volition. His instincts told him that he had to get to the end of this matter, or the outcome if he ignored it wouldn‘t be one he would be able to bear.

Without wasting any more time, he took a sharp detour and started walking towards his Bugatti. As he walked to his car, he made a phone call to the police. After all, what he had were just deductions, and a premonition. There was no solid evidence to support his claim. The police were more professional than him in that regards, and with the array of resources at their disposal, they would be able to uncover more than he could.

Meanwhile, while Darius was making a phone call to the police, Alice was in the black sedan with the four burly men who kidnapped her. She was squeezed in between them in the backseat of the sedan, and as the sedan drove at high speed, she was greatly affected when the driver drove right past some potholes. The potholes made her unbalanced, and she came into close contact with the two burly kidnappers beside her.

She was very terrified of the burly men, so she dared not voice her discomfort at how uncomfortable she was.

Alice remained as still as a quiet lake as the sedan drove, and it was unknown how long the sedan drove for, but just when her butt was beginning to get numb, the sedan came to a stop. The four burly men alighted from the black sedan in hurried steps and roughly pulled Alice out

of the vehicle. Alice screamed from fright, but before she could scream even further, a crisp sound was heard, and a burning sensation spread in her cheeks. One of the burly kidnappers had slapped her. “Shut up! One more sound from you and it won‘t end with just a slap!” the kidnapper who slapped her yelled angrily.

Alice nodded her head in fear, the stinging sensation and the very visible palm print on her cheeks giving her an indelible mark. She knew that if she offended them again by chance, it wouldn‘t end well for her.

The four burly men led Alice through a forest path, and walked for over twenty minutes in silence.

Alice, who was still dressed in the outfit she picked for her coffee date with Darius, felt the insects biting her with gusto. Her outfit was clearly unsuitable for her to walk through a forest path, and with how quickly the burly men walked, she was afraid of being left behind, so she gritted her teeth and ignored the pain she felt. If asked to choose between wild animals and the kidnappers, she would definitely choose the kidnappers. The kidnappers were still humans after all. No one would love to be at the mercy of wild animals.

After walking for another ten minutes, the four burly men finally came to a stop at a well built cabin.

Alice who was already numb from the pain of the insect bites looked at the cabin in shock. The last thing she expected to see was a cabin in the middle of a forest.

Moreover, this wasn‘t your average cabin. It was a luxury cabin that must have cost millions of dollars to build!

Alice gulped and subconsciously remained behind. She didn‘t want to go close to the cabin at all, but when the burly kidnapper who slapped her earlier glared at her coldly. She sucked in a cold breath and walked towards the cabin. As much as she didn‘t want to enter the cabin, she also didn‘t want to risk angering the burly kidnapper; therefore she obeyed him unwillingly and stepped into the cabin. The moment she stepped inside the cabin, a male voice, one that she could never forget, seeped into her ears.

“Did you miss me?” the male voice asked haughtily.

Alice looked up to where the voice came from, shivering visibly from horror and fear, and when she saw the owner of the voice, her heart started beating rapidly against her chest.