Chapter 223: You Will Likely Be Kidnapped Later
"Wendy..." Winnie gave a call to Wendy again. And when Wendy answered, she said immediately, "Do you want to go shopping later? With your mood now, it is not good to be couped up at home. We should go out and enjoy."
"Yesterday when Michael came back, he kicked up a big fuss and we quarreled again. Sigh, I am not in the mood for shopping." Wendy said intentionally.
"Precisely my point. At times like this, you should go out and take a break from those issues." Winnie said. "I have made arrangements. We can go have some desserts first, followed by a movie. Lastly, we can go to the jewelry shop to pick up the accessories I ordered the last time. If you like them, I can give them to you."
"Uh..."
"Come on. Take it that you are accompanying me instead." Winnie persuaded again.
"Okay. So, meet you at the cafe we met the last time?"
"Let’s go to another one. My friend recommended a good dessert shop in the west side of the city." Winnie said. "I’ll text you the address. I’ll see you there directly."
Wendy gave in and agreed.
Soon, Winnie texted the address over. The address was indeed of a legitimate dessert shop. But the journey there would take Wendy thirty minutes by car. And they were going all the way there just for dessert? Wendy checked out the location on Google Maps. The shop seemed a little secluded. Although Wendy did not know what was Winnie’s objective to meet her there, she knew it would not as simple as it seemed.
She called Michael and told him about it. Michael paused and replied, "Just go ahead. Don’t worry. I will send more bodyguards for reinforcement."
"Okay." Wendy tightened her grip on the phone. In actual fact, Wendy was hoping she did not have to witness anything bad that might happen. After all, Winnie was Michael’s mother.
She pondered for a while and decided to ask anyway, "Michael, what if your mother does something drastic this time? What would you do?"
The other end was silent. What would he do? What could he possibly do? Michael had no answer to her question. "I am just asking casually." Wendy said. "After all, she is your mother. Just don’t overdo things."
After she hung up, she put on some light makeup and left with her purse and car keys.
Winnie was not there yet when Wendy reached the dessert shop. She took a seat by the window and observed the people in the shop.
The table beside her sat two men who looked over in her direction from time to time. Another two men were seated behind her. It appeared odd to Wendy as usually men wouldn’t frequent dessert shop as much as women. Even if there were men, they were likely there in accompaniment of women. Two tables with four men...
Her hunch might be wrong, but she just had to be extra attentive and careful.
She took out her phone from her purse and dialed Winnie’s number. The call got through and she asked, "Mrs. Lucas, I am here already. Are you reaching soon?"
"Yah, I’ll be there shortly. There is a jam on my way here so I’ll be about twenty minutes late. Sorry about it."
The truth is, Winnie was there already. She was in the cafe opposite the dessert shop, monitoring the situation in the dessert shop closely.
"It’s okay. I’ll wait."
After she hung up, she got a text message from Michael.
[My mother is in the cafe opposite the dessert shop you are in. There are five of her men in the dessert shop. They are waiting for a chance to take action. My mother booked out the entire dessert shop. So, you will likely be kidnapped by them later.]
Wendy already felt that there was something amiss in the dessert shop. But she only noticed four of them. Wendy placed her phone on the table and continued looking around the dessert shop. True enough, when Wendy’s eyes met with the four men, they immediately looked away and pretended to be chatting with the other person at the same table.
Wendy waited patiently. Surely Winnie would have her next step in store for her.
She got bored of waiting and picked up the glass of fruit juice on the table. Just as she was about to drink, Michael’s text came in. She put down the glass to read the text. [Do not touch any of the food. They are likely drugged.]
She looked down at the juice and dessert and did not dare to consume them anymore.
Michael was observing her every move. At times like this, Michael would be somewhere nearby. He was in another shop. Seated on the second floor, he could clearly see Wendy’s and Winnie’s movements from where he was seated.
Shortly after, another text came. [Pretend to take a few bites but don’t swallow them down. After that, pretend to feel dizzy.]
Following his instructions, she pretended to be using her phone in one hand and casually picking up the dessert with the other. She took a bite and chewed slowly.
Wendy reached for the juice on the table to take a sip. She looked down slightly and with her long hair covering half her face, she spitted everything in her mouth onto the floor. After a few minutes, she raised her hand to her head and said out loud, "Why do I feel a little dizzy? I don’t feel so good..."
With that, the men seated around her started to fidget. They were just waiting for her to collapse.
Wendy played along and fell onto the table. Two men came over. "Miss? Miss..." One of them tapped Wendy on her shoulder and seeing that she had no response, he shot glances at the other men and they hurried over to carry her in the direction of the back door.
Winnie smirked as she watched from the cafe that she was in.
Wendy kept her head low as they carried her out. The dessert shop was secluded. It was even quieter when they exited from the back door. Clueless about where she would be carried to or what these people would do to her, she could not help but feel fear creeping in.
Luckily, once Wendy was brought out of the shop, she was out of Winnie’s sight. A few bodyguards wearing suits ambushed them in the alley.
"Stand aside." These men did not know who the men in suits were and rushed them off. "Out of our way."
Without saying anything, the bodyguards took the five men down. Wendy quickly ran behind the bodyguards. At this time, Michael appeared behind the bodyguards too, so Wendy hurried over to him.
"Are you okay?" Michael asked anxiously as he quickly scanned for injuries on Wendy.
Michael saw that Wendy was taken away and he acted immediately after they were out of Winnie’s view. He was afraid that any delays would cause issues. Everything was well within his plan but he would not be able to forgive himself if any mishap was to happen to Wendy.
"I’m alright." She was relieved upon seeing Michael.
Michael checked Wendy once more to ensure that she was unharmed before he set his mind at ease.
The five men were defeated and pressed down on the ground. They exchanged glances in shock as they did not know what was going on.
"Who... who are you guys?" They knew they were in trouble. These men were obviously after them.
