Chapter 383
Chapter 383:
When she reached the bottom of the staircase, she saw the man stepping through the front door.
He was tall and handsome, with vivid, striking blue eyes.
A wave of disappointment washed over her. Something about him didn’t match the feeling she carried from the ocean.
“Hello,” he said. Despite his imposing size, he offered her a shy, almost nervous smile.
“Hello,” Kristine replied, doing her best to sound warm. “Thank you so much for saving my life that night p>
𝖮r𝘨𝖺𝗻𝗂𝘻e yo𝘶𝗋 𝗹i𝗯𝘳𝖺r𝗒 on
A look of confusion passed across his face. “Ms. Green, I think there’s been a misunderstanding. I didn’t save you — my employer did,” he said.
Kristine went still. “Then you weren’t the one in the water that night p>
“This is my brother, Vinson,” Davin said, stepping into the room, his face as unreadable as stone.
In an instant, it clicked. The resemblance she hadn’t been able to place — Vinson and Davin were brothers, and they shared the same remarkable blue eyes.
Another car horn sounded from outside.
Vinson Craig smiled his quiet smile. “Our employer is here now p>
Kristine turned to face the front door.
A gleaming Bugatti rolled slowly up the drive and stopped at the entrance.
The moment she recognized the car, the air left her lungs. Her heart lurched into a wild, unsteady rhythm in her chest.
When Asher appeared in the doorway, Kristine couldn’t hold back her smile. “Asher p>
Asher looked up from his wheelchair and smiled back at her — a warm, gentle expression, like a breath of spring air cutting through the dead of winter.
“It was you who saved my life,” Kristine said, hurrying over to him. A flood of emotions surged through her at once, but she managed to focus on the one question pressing hardest against her mind. “How did you find me? What actually happened p>
Asher gave a quiet smile. “There’s no rush. Let’s go inside and talk about it properly p>
Kristine nodded and carefully wheeled him into the living room.
The story began the afternoon Asher first learned that Kristine had gone to see Colton. Outside her apartment building, Tripp had reported that she had supposedly gone to reconcile with him. Asher didn’t believe it for a moment. He knew her far too well to think she would ever go back to someone she had already decided to leave.
Acting on instinct, he instructed Tripp to track her movements closely. His concern proved justified. They soon discovered that Kristine had been taken from the very hotel where Colton was staying — and that Colton had kept the kidnapping completely quiet. If Tripp hadn’t had so many contacts throughout Peudon, the truth might never have surfaced at all.
Asher dispatched a search team immediately, but Peudon was far too vast to comb through quickly. Two full days passed without a single lead.
Then a news report came in about Monica’s arrest.