Daughter-in-law Strikes Harder

“Why the fuck were the cameras in your company not working?! And on the day that Aria visited?!” Dalton spat angrily at his elder sister, who was forced to visit the mansion with every ruckus that had been happening, ever since Aria’s whereabouts was unknown.

After an entire day of checking bus points to another and Aria’s random manner of boarding cabs, they were able to trace the fact that her last stop was at the ML gallery. It was evening already, but Dalton and Alex rushed to the gallery themselves to confirm.Content © NôvelDrama.Org 2024.

The billionaire didn’t understand why Aria would go there because she was not exactly friends with Eva, but just kept good hope as Alex drove as fast as he could to the gallery. The first turnoff was the already locked gate that Dalton shook so violently, to see if it would open. That, insinuated that there was no way anyone would be inside the place.

“Shit! She left here already. How on earth do we know where she is now?!” Dalton kicked at the gate angrily, and stormed into the car immediately. He didn’t wait for Alex, who was trying to snoop around for clues, and drove the car away from the place immediately.

The most annoying part was that since they had gotten the information that Aria went to the art gallery, they had been trying to call the CEO of the gallery but her phone number was unreachable throughout that day.

It would have been easier if she picked up, met with them at the gallery, and then made it easy for them to access its information. Regardless of that fact, Dalton was not ready to wait for anything to happen as he drove off immediately who only he knows where.

‘Love can make one crazy,’ Alex chuckled at his thoughts rather than being pissed, and just turned back to check for any leading info.

He was able to turn back and just call a chauffeur to pick him up when he had a change of mind, as he looked straight to the huge building that was before him through the gate. For some reason he continually wondered why Aria was there in the first place, and why there was no evening guard that should be watching the company at night in his post.

Suddenly, a shadow flew across his face around the building, which made Alex think that he was hallucinating already. But deep down he knew what he had seen, and felt like someone was really still inside the art gallery building.

Without any more self-decline, he tried to check if the gate that was locked was by any chance open in any way. Alas, it was securely locked. It made him wonder why someone was inside a closely secured building.

Without any hesitation, Alex got ready and scaled through the fence to the other side into the compound, more clumsily than he expected because he had thought it off as easy. He landed on his butt with an attempt to steady on his feet, which was quite painful for him.

The front view of the building looked quite organized with no sign of anyone, which made Alex move closer to check if the main door was open. It was locked too as expected at that time, which made Alex wonder if he really saw something wrong, but soon he could perceive the smell of some kind of gas emitting from tiny spaces of the door.

He walked towards the left side of the huge building to see if there was something causing such a smell, and he was quite surprised to see something that caught his attention. The broken glass window was the first to encounter at the left wing of the huge building, and it was difficult not to notice it when observing everywhere. He wondered what could have happened.

He peeped into the ground floor to see if anything was worth the information, but it was just an empty space which seemed to emit a more unpleasant gaseous odor than the main door. Knowing that the window space was enough to fit him in, he couldn’t risk anything more by breaking into the building to check.

‘Did Eva and Aria fight dirty and ended up breaking the window?’ his thoughts suddenly got wild alongside his imagination, which made him grin inwardly if something of such had happened.

But he immediately ditched the thought of something of such happening, because he assumed that Eva might not be someone to engage in such fights. Amongst every other child of the Miller household, he knew about her the least, so he couldn’t jump into conclusions.

Regardless of what had happened, Alex knew that something huge must have taken place in the building that day. He wanted to bring out his phone to take pictures of the broken glass window, but realized that it was still in the car and Dalton had driven it away.

He moved around the building to check if there were anything that could give clues that Aria had visited the library that day, but there was none. There was no one around the compound too like he thought he had seen, and he ended up leaving after he called a chauffeur when it got more late.

The next morning that they had managed to scale through without seeing Aria, or experiencing too much of Dalton’s wrath, Eva visited the mansion. Dalton immediately matched her to the art gallery as the CEO, and requested to see the footage from her company the previous day.

While the employees were running helter skelter and trying to act all perfect after seeing their boss’s great brother, Alex went back to inspect the window from the previous day so that he could inform Dalton about it, but found the surprise of his life. The window had no scratch, no dent, and was clear and neat.

Even the state of mess that he would have expected them to meet at the mansion was the opposite, and there was no foul odor that he perceived from the previous day at all. He was shocked, and it was hard to process what he had to see.

By the time they had checked the footage and tried to watch it, it only recorded events from the two days before, and a few hours from the day before. Nothing was recorded from the estimated time of Aria’s visit till the very next morning. The manager speculated a malfunction.

That statement alone made Dalton go bonkers immediately, that he threatened to fire everyone and close down the gallery if they didn’t provide him with reasonable information.

The ones who saw her confirmed that they did see a lady dressed luxuriously and reported the time she came, which did not also leave out the report of Eva not being around the time she visited. It became more difficult to understand why Aria had gone there.

His sister didn’t even mind his anger and just called their CCTV management company to check what was up, but her lackadaisical attitude soon changed when she realized that Dalton would really go through with his dare.

Of anything and everything, she could never allow him to close down the art gallery. Never.

Everything escalated till evening that they were unable to still get any footage, and things got more tough and suffocating for everyone. The cameras that were not functioning at that period in time, made it difficult to trace the fact that Collin had gone to pick her.

Instead of the usual main road that led to the gallery, he took a shortcut and crossed lanes when he was returning. By the time he came out of another road that was a one-way route, it would have been too difficult to connect him back to the gallery. And with that, everything became a disaster.

Dalton and his sister remained in the worst malice fight that had not happened before, and every worker at the gallery had suspended working too. And just like that, war was brewing already.

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The sounds were so audible to not mistake it for hallucinations, but the extreme weakness of her mind made it seem so. It was difficult to keep her eyes closed for too long as it ached real bad, but opening it was harder because they felt really heavy.

Her body felt empty and lifeless like it had been thrown into a pit of nothingness, and she saw being more close to death than coming back to life. Nevertheless, something seemed to be pulling her back to the reality she was not yet done with.

Collin sat in the same spot for over thirty minutes looking at her face and fingers spontaneously, to see if she would even stir and give him hope of being alive. It had been the third day already since he brought her from the gallery already.

Her treatment was top secret that was not to be disclosed to anyone, even if the doctor recognized her in any way. And he was really glad that everything had been going fine, because even if he was expecting someone to storm to the door of his house they had not done that.

It was a confirmation that Dalton was yet to know that he had carried her away from their art gallery, and his alibi was perfect because he was always the type to never leave his house once in a while for so long. However, a problem almost erupted the previous day.

Dalton’s men made it tough that they wanted to see him at all cost, because the timing of him claiming to be at home and not visiting his company, was too off and coincidental.

The billionaire could not believe that Collin had nothing to do with Aria’s disappearance and demanded an audience. He was already losing his mind from lack of sleep, fear and restlessness.

However, Collin’s assistant was able to come to his aid and showed them the hospital reports that read the exact things that served as a perfect alibi, which Dalton was really displeased to see.

Confirming it with the hospital was a piece of cake, and it made him even more worried than ever. He had his men and agents working nonstop at finding her. He had almost become a shadow of himself in two days of her disappearance.

‘If she had really left him finally, then he would lose his mind for good.’