“Raegan, I need to...”
Maybe it was because Mitchel had been so kind to Raegan recently that he
thought she could understand him if he left now. However, Raegan cut him off
flatly.
“Don't go.”
It was not that Raegan was heartless. It was that she thought it would be better
to send a professional to handle this dire situation.
Moreover, her intuition told her there was more than meets the eye.
“We can call the police and have them sort this out,” Raegan reasoned.
Mitchel frowned and shot down the idea immediately.
“We can't involve the police. Lauren's safety is at stake.”
Those outlaws had no conscience. Mitchel assumed he could not gamble with
Lauren's life. Besides, he would pay off his debt, as long as Lauren arrived in
Swynborough safely.
Seeing Mitchel still siding with Lauren, a bitter taste filled Raegan’s mouth.
“Mitchel, have you considered that this whole thing might be staged?”
Raegan voiced her suspicions.
Mitchel’'s expression turned even grimmer, and he asked, “What are you getting
at?”
Raegan laid out her observations.
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“In the video, Lauren's shoes were spotless. If she was beaten up and held in
some rundown warehouse, how could her shoes be so clean?”
Unlike Mitchel, she had paid close attention to the details and noticed something
was amiss.
The amount of blood Lauren spat out seemed off.
“And why would a kidnapper care whether the guy paying the ransom was her
husband or not?”
There could be only one answer to these questions. Lauren was orchestrating
the whole thing.
Lauren was aware that she was listening, thus using those words as a way to
provoke her.
The pieces of the puzzle were falling into place. For some reason, Raegan could
not shake the feeling that the kidnapping was Lauren's ploy.
The more she thought about it, the more she felt something was amiss.
As her worries for Mitchel were mounting, she pressed on, “The timing is odd,
don't you think? You finally decide to let Lauren leave the country today, and then
she gets kidnapped? It sounds like a ploy to make you change your mind.”
“Enough, Raegan!” Mitchel cut her off, seemingly exasperated.
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