Chapter 22: Offer your head in his place
15 minutes later, the intensity of her movements lessened and she finally raised her head to look at the empty screen that now showed one word.
Regalia.
She raised her the maid uniform she had donned and took out her phone that she had earlier stuffed under her tight corset.
In the search bar, she typed ’Regalia’ and the images of a motel appeared.
A small frown graced Daisy’s face but she reset the computer and walked out of the internet cafe.
Si Yena was in this motel. For someone like her, she would be disgusted to go to a place like that.
Her mind was occupied with various thoughts as she made her way to the road.
In a blazing red Ferrari.
The atmosphere in the car was so dangerous that Benjamin and the woman sitting in the passenger seat did not even dare to move, afraid of inciting the devil’s ire.
Benjamin even acted like a robot. Face straight, movements stiff.
In the end, it was the secretary in the passenger seat who had to bite the bullet since it was her job. She glanced at the devil who was sitting behind with one leg crossed over the other, looking calm and composed.
But the people who knew him knew it well that the calmer he was, it was more the reason for them to be dreadful.
’’B-Boss,’’ the secretary tried to stop herself from stuttering as she said, ’’We...’’
’’Track their current location,’’ Ryle interrupted the woman.
’’Yes, boss...’’ The secretary sighed.
One of their colleagues betrayed the organization and ran away with the young miss whom he was supposed to protect.
And now, here they were.
Their boss had taken the matter into his hands, considering the bodyguard’s actions were nothing less than a provocation.
She knew that if that man fell into their boss’s hand... then the consequences...
She sighed in pity. He was one of her closest friends in the company after she joined and she did not want him to suffer.
’’You have something to say?" Ryle tilted his head to look at the woman lazily.
The woman’s heart skipped a beat, ’’Boss..’’
’’Spill.’’
She hesitated for a moment before she opened her mouth, ’’He had indeed broken the rules by falling in love with a client but at the end of the day, falling in love is not a crime. Will... Will you spare him?" She softened her tone. She knew how dangerous her job was but she had always been a righteous person. Whatever it was, she was not going to stand aside and watch an innocent person suffer.
Ryle raised an eyebrow, ’’As long as you offer your head in his place,’’ As he watched her face paling, his usual easygoing and warm smile returned to its place as he said, ’’Then I will let him live his happily ever after while you shower your blessings on him from heaven. How is that?"
Benjamin almost lost control over the steering wheel but he did not aspire to shower blessings from heaven so he regained his composure quickly.
The secretary on the other hand felt uncomfortable all over. This man... She had been working for him for over a year now after her predecessor ran away. Nobody knew why the person before her had left such a high-paying job and she had wondered it too. But it was understandable now.
She had stayed in the shadows wherever he went.
A playboy, a charming playful man, a funny friend who whined frequently, looked like an angel, talked like an angel... people saw those sides of him. But they did not see the person who lay beneath that exterior.
’’I want their whereabouts. In 15 minutes,’’ Ryle calmly said.
The woman was stumped for words. 15 minutes were too less to track someone’s whereabouts. She wanted to say that but in the end, she took out her laptop and started working on it.
Ryle glanced at her quietly for a moment before he averted his gaze.
His trusted subordinate didn’t just break the protocol, he even had the audacity to elope instead coming clean to him. Ryle hated it when people pushed his limits.
And this was the third time he was tracking their whereabouts since he came to Beijing after leaving his mansion and his pet in his friend’s care.
Thirty minutes later, his secretary turned the laptop towards him.
’’Regalia,’’ Ryle read the word written on it.
’’It’s a motel.’’
’’Drive.’’
The driver took his hint and changed the direction of the car from the city center to their new destination.
Ryle propped his forehead on his fist as he turned to look out of the glass panes.
His lazy eyes caught a faint glimpse of blonde on the road.
His eyes immediately zoomed in on the person on the other side of the road.
The casual look in his eyes was gone as he straightened up in his seat when the car drove past that person, ’’Turn the car...’’
’’A-Ah? Boss?" The driver was stupefied.
Ryle glared at him.
The driver shivered. Just as he started taking a U-turn, the man spoke up again.
’’Drop it. Keep driving,’’ Ryle said as he leaned back on the seat, calmly propping his chin on his fist this time.
The driver almost choked a mouthful of blood. Boss... I am still single. I want to have kids and a sweet wife before I die. Can you not do this to me? He mentally looked at the sky and prayed to the heavens to send him a lady boss so that he can have some peace...
Unaware of the driver’s thoughts, Ryle was thinking about different things as he glanced at the road. It could not be that arrogant lad. The person he saw just now did hold some resemblances to that person but that guy would never go around wearing a girl’s outfit, let alone a maid’s.
It was probably just a coincidence.
Hmm. The more he thought about it, the more he was convinced that it was just a coincidence.
