The Broken-hearted She And The Icy He (Lily and John) novel Chapter 610

Chapter 610 Ten Billion

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She paused, then added, “Tie up her hands and feet too. If you’re putting on a show, make it believable–only then will it hit home.”

Lily certainly didn’t want her mouth taped shut.

A hand behind her had been quietly working, trying to loosen the knot around her wrists.

But with both hands bound, her fingers were clumsy; the rope knots were tight and firm, and she couldn’t free her wrists.

She forced herself to shuffle backward, trying to put distance between herself and the men approaching.

But her feet were bound, so she couldn’t move quickly. One man grabbed her chin while another roughly sealed her mouth with tape.

She still hoped Elsa would stop, and that these men wouldn’t be so loyal to Elsa.

But with the tape pressed down tight across her lips, she couldn’t form a single whole sentence; even the muffled whimpers she managed sounded indistinct.

“Lizzy!”

Not long after the kidnappers had bound Elsa’s limbs, Simon arrived.

He’d

gotten a call from the abductors claiming they’d taken Elsa and demanding fifty million in ransom–otherwise they would kill her. They’d insisted only he come alone and that he not alert the police; they’d warned that even if he brought the money, they might still kill her.

He’d assumed the woman bound on the cliff would be Elsa—he hadn’t expected Lily to be there

too.

Seeing Lily’s hands and feet tightly bound and her mouth taped, her face deathly pale, something inside him twisted painfully.

He stepped forward, intent on untying her.

“Don’t move!”

As soon as he took two steps, the men pressed the tips of knives harder against Lily and Elsa’s throats.

“Bring the suitcases of cash, box by box, onto our boat. One more step and we’ll slit their throats right now!”

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“Let them go first!”

One of the captors sneered, his eyes cold and narrow. “Do you think you have bargaining chips? I’ll say it again–move the money to the boat, or…

He let the threat hang and smiled wickedly at the glinting blade in his hand.

Simon’s brow tightened; murderous intent flooded his eyes. He hated being threatened.

Still, with Elsa and Lily’s lives in those men’s hands and the danger of them carrying out their threat, he reluctantly hauled the suitcases of cash to the waiting boat.

“I’ve put the money on the boat. Let them go!” he demanded.

“Ha!”

As if hearing the world’s funniest joke, the leader burst into scornful laughter.

“You think fifty million buys two lives? It’s not even night yet and you’re already dreaming. All right, let’s play a game.”

He paused, then sneered, “You can choose one of these two women. The one you pick, we’ll return to you unharmed. The one you abandon…well, you don’t care about her anyway–we’ll throw her into the deep sea for the fish.”

Hearing that, Simon’s expression darkened so sharply it could have crushed a fly.

To him, Elsa was the Lizzy who had shared those darkest days beneath the rubble–he didn’t want her killed.

Still, inexplicably, he couldn’t bear the thought of harm coming to Lily either.

Yes–he wanted to save Lily, if only for the sake of the children in her belly. After all, those two little lives were the flesh of his most respected elder cousin.

He hesitated briefly, then said through clenched teeth, “I’ll give you one hundred million. Let them both go.”

Elsa’s face stiffened.

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