Chapter 669

Obviously Shane was aware of that. That was the reason for his grim expression.

He fixed his eyes on Natalie.

She, too, was staring straight back at him. Her body trembled slightly as despair filled her eyes.
“Shane…”

All he wanted was to comfort her.

Yet, his words would be futile. Nothing he could say would serve as a consolation while she was being
held at gunpoint.

Instead, he shifted his gaze to Sean. He suppressed the urge to rage at him and asked, “What the hell
do you want?”

“It’s simple, really. I want to leave this place safely,” Sean smiled as his eyes met his.

Shane tightened his grip on the gun and scoffed. “In your dreams!”

“Is that so? Then I guess you leave me no other option. I’ll just have to bring your wife along to perish.
What a beautiful woman she is, so I won’t be the one getting the short end of the stick,” Sean joked while
his grin grew wider.

“I’ll say it again. Let go of her!”



“That’s impossible unless you ask your men to back off and allow me to leave with ease. Once I’m out of
here, I’ll return her to you.” While he negotiated, he kept his tight grip on Natalie.

Natalie shuddered in response.



Shane pursed his lips into a thin line. “You think I’ll believe you?”

“I guess I have no choice. We’ll bite the dust together.” With that, his index finger moved closer to the
trigger.

With the close proximity of the gun, Natalie could audibly hear the sound of the trigger moving. The
immense pressure caused her to shriek in horror. “Shane, save me! Please…”

Shane’s hands were shaking.

Silas took one look at him before turning to look at Natalie. He hurriedly said, “Mr. Shane, I know you
don’t want to let Sean go. But there’s no other way out of this dire situation. Madam is still in his hands.
Let’s release him first. Once she’s safe, we can carry out our revenge.”

“Yes, Mr. Shane.” The others on the helicopter piped up.

Even Connor was weeping. “Daddy, please save Mommy.”

Shane shut his eyes.

It was not that he wanted her to die.

He evidently knew what the right choice would be. Nevertheless, he feared that Sean would not let
Natalie off easily even after he was set free.

He didn’t want to take the risk.

But the reality was that he had to take the gamble.

“Fine. I’ll let you leave. You let go of her!” Shane took the first step to put his gun down.

Sean remained in his position. “Order them to leave first.”



His eyes scanned the helicopters hovering in the air.

Shane looked to Silas and briefly nodded.

The latter picked up the wireless mic and notified everyone to leave, save for the helicopter they were
on.

Soon, the other helicopters left.

Only the one Shane was on remained.

Once again, Sean requested for them to leave.

“Why should we? The others have cleared out. If we leave, then madam…”

“Are you leaving or not?” Sean seethed and pushed the gun further into Natalie’s temple.

The hostage howled in pain.

Though Shane winced at her outcry, he quickly collected himself and uttered, “Let’s go.”

“Mr. Shane…”

He knew what Silas wanted to say and narrowed his eyes. “They’re leaving by car and there’s only one
way out. The men we’ve arranged will wait for them at the foot of the hill to obstruct them.”

After hearing that, Silas kept quiet.

The helicopter then flew away. However, it still remained at a distance where it was still in Sean and
Natalie’s line of sight.

“Director, are we leaving?” Alex finally plucked up the courage to get off the car.



Sean shot him a look. “We can’t. Don’t forget that they prepared several cars as well. We failed to
anticipate the helicopters and assumed there were only cars so we thought we could shift our base. But
in the time that the helicopter distracted us, the cars should have reached the foot of the hill.”






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