Chapter 392 Underground Prison
Chapter 392 Underground Prison
“Lily!”
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james had rushed over by private jet, arriving just as the police were walking out of the Xander family
residence.
The location tracker on his phone pointed to the same yard.
Seeing the officerse out, he assumed Lily had been rescued. He rushed forward, ready to pull her into his arms.
He missed her so much.
It hadn’t even been a full day since they were apart, yet it felt like they’d been separated for lifetimes.
Even though he knew her heart belonged to Jackson, he still wanted to hold her with everything he had.
But he didn’t see Lily.
“She’s not inside?” James’s voice trembled uncontrobly.
“Mr. Luke, we’ve searched thoroughly. Ms. Lily isn’t in this house. The GPS might not be perfectly urate–we’ll check the nearby residences next.”
As the officer spoke, a bloody red haze crept into James’s dark eyes.
In that moment, dozens of nearly hopeless thoughts rushed through his mind.
The tracking device hidden in Lily’s watch was extremely precise. There was no way it could <i>be </i><i>that </i>far off.
If the police hadn’t found Lily inside, there were only two possibilities–either her watch had been removed, or her body was no longer whole enough to be recognized.
Neither was something he could ept.
Overwhelmed with pain and dread, he nearly dropped his phone.
He forced himself to calm down and strode quickly into the courtyard. “You only searched the main floor, right?”
When the officer nodded, he continued, “There might be a basement underneath…” She’s definitely hidden in the basement!”
James!
Lily couldn’t believe it–she could still hear James’s voice.
That voice, so achingly familiar, brought tears streaming down her face.
Just moments ago, when the police left, she’d truly given up hope.
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She thought she was destined to die miserably in this hellhole, her death never exined. She hadn’t expected James toe.
And now he was guessing she was trapped in the basement–that thought sparked a flood of hope.
Jerry still had a firm grip over her mouth, keeping her from making a sound. All she could do was scream over and over in her heart:
<i>James</i><i>, </i>I’m in <i>the </i><i>basement</i><i>! </i><i>Please</i><i>, </i><i>save </i><i>me</i><i>! </i>
“Ha!”
Jerry sneered and spat on the floor, his voice cold and demonic. “You’re hoping they’ll find you, huh? Too bad. I designed the basement entrance myself. No one outside will ever find it.”
Ben pressed a hand to his wound, his twisted face filled with malice and smug ease.
Clearly, neither of them was the least bit worried about James and the others getting close.
Seeing how confident they looked, Lily’s heart–which had just started to hope again–was once more drowned in fear and despair.
Was she really going to be destroyed by these two monsters even if James hade?
<i>No</i><i>! </i>
<i>James </i><i>will </i><i>find </i><i>me</i><i>. </i><i>He </i><i>has </i><i>to</i>!
James, along with Ashton and the others, had searched the entire property.
They found no sign of Lily. Not a single clue. And no entrance to any basement.
“Mr. Luke, there really might not be a basement here. Should we search elsewhere?”
After the officer spoke, Ashton added, “Boss, maybe Ms. Ginger really isn’t here. She-”
“She is,” James said firmly. –
If the watch had been forcibly removed, they should’ve at least found it somewhere in the yard.
And if she’d been killed and dismembered, there should’ve been traces of that.
But the entire property above ground was clean. No suspicious signs. That left only one exnation: the watch was in the basement.
And so was she.
Whether alive or dead, she was down there.
James shut his bloodshot eyes in agony. When <i>he </i>opened them again, they were filled with near–maniacal certainty.
She had to still be alive.
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The world couldn’t exist without Lily.
“Dig.”
James gave his order, cach word sharp and clear. “Even if I have to break open every inch of this <b>ground</b><b>, </b>I’m going to find Lily.”
“I know where the entrance to the Xander family’s basement is!”
Just as Ashton was about to lead men to dig up the ground, a battered, bruised, filthy woman–Jenn- staggered into the yard.
Jenn was one of the two female college students who had tried <i>to </i>escape the vige with Mathilda <b>years </b>
ago.
She had lived in torment every day since.
Not long ago, the man who bought her nearly beat her to death again.
She refused to die like this–unseen, unknown. After that day, she pretended to be obedient.
The man let his guard down and stopped chaining her up