Daughter-in-law Strikes Harder

Everyone had lost their state of rest since Dalton arrived back at the mansion, as they all moved in confusion because they didn’t even know what to do. Hailey remained in Eleanor’s room when Alex came to call on them, to avoid facing the direct wrath of the man she was doing everything she could to win over.

Ellen took the advantage of the situation to chide her mother’s attitude, while Emma continued to panic as she remained in her room still. They all knew in their hearts that the only person who could do the perfect job of tracking her down, was the IT personnels that worked as the heart of both the family and company.

Her phone numbers were not going through no matter how they tried to call her, and it was more difficult to track her because her phone was off. But it was still a fact that Dalton would end throwing everyone out of the house, if they didn’t do anything to aid the situation. However, they didn’t even know what to do.

“Fucking idiots! They couldn’t even make a call to say that something was going wrong in the house. Bloody fools!” Dalton roared uncontrollably as Alex walked so fast to the control room, wondering how his boss who was always careful with his words cussed out so angrily.

The trained tech personnels from the company had arrived in the mansion in no time, and had started to navigate every of their radar signals everywhere using a drone.

Since she had walked away from the large meters that revolved around the mansion, they tried to get every camera that was mounted in every route and pathway that led to the Millers mansion.

Happy that they were getting to a reasonable level of success in their investigation, it turned out that Mrs. Eleanor Miller had intentionally ordered the guards to shut down the power of the entire mansion, because of the quick lightning changes they were doing in the house.

Those were also the recording hours of when Collin came with his car to pick Aria up, which was empty when they checked every recorded data. Dalton’s palm slapped angrily against the table, when he saw that nothing had been moving forward and time was going. They quickly explained what the problem seemed to have been.

“Do you not know the right thing to do?!” Dalton snarled angrily, trying hard not to lose his temper against his mother by transferring the aggression on the poor operator.

“I am sorry sir,” the young skilled guy quivered in fear as he fumbled with the keyboard that was connected to the advanced systems that he was using, to trace out everything that would lead them to a clue.

Dalton ordered Alex to pass his phone and he made a call immediately, to freeze everyone’s credit cards in the house till further notice. Unaware of what had happened to their lifelines, Eleanor hoped in her heart that they would not find the miserable bitch that had caused her son many problems. She wanted to end everything once and for all.

Aria waited patiently for Collin to come back in the evening to come and see her, and she had already packaged the things that she came with. He was surprised to see her already ready to leave his house, and he asked her in a disturbed tone of why she wanted to return back to where they forced her out from.

“No. No. I am not going back there,” she cleared the air, “I just want you to drive me to a terminal or something where I can board a bus, to the Miller’s vacation house that is quite a distance from here,” she explained further.

“Why can you not just stay here? At least to feel better,” he suggested, sad that she was already planning to leave his house again. Hearing that she wanted to go to a property that belonged to them, further broke his heart to hear.

“Thank you for everything you have done for me, Collin. But, I do not want you to get deeply involved in this mess of trying to help me. Dalton is a vicious man. If I’m found out and in this place, it would be a really huge problem,” Aria tried to make him understand that it was best that she left.

Going to lodge at a suite would not even help problems, because they would get to her faster in that way. His connections would just get him free access to her information.

“Are you sure you are going to be fine?” Collin’s voice almost showed how broken he was to see her leave, as he moved closer to her while trying to maintain that distance even if he wanted to hug her.

“I am okay. I really am,” Aria said to him with a modest smile, and moved closer to him for a hug before he even did that.

She was becoming more free in doing many things now, and he noticed that. Not wanting the moment to get ruined, he went with the flow of her body pulled so close to his. It was hard to let go.

“I would drive you. It is safer that way,” Collin said to her when they were already in the car with her seat belt fastened around her body, in which she could not even object.

The vacation house was the one that Aria knew about and was rarely used by the family, with the passcode that Dalton had slipped to her once, sometimes back.

It was one time in the past that he had ordered her never to be in his space, or anything that would bring both of them together after their wedding. He spoke harsh words to her, and called her shameless.

“If you are tired of everything and need a place to escape from this place, you can easily go to that abandoned spot that was gifted by grandfather. Most displeasing, is that the passcode is the day of a contemptible wedding!” He muttered in spite, “At least when you find your way there, it would be a comfort that a place holds meaning to your first wedding.”

The memories seemed to haunt her brain as she slept off in Collin’s car, as it recurred in her hearing, vision and thoughts. The voices in her head sounded like they were chanting it to her, and she felt too far from the memories that seemed like her own. Collin tapped her immediately, when he watched her struggle in her sleep.

“Are you okay? Do you want to rest for a bit?” He asked her.

“Yes, Collin. Don’t mind me and just drive on,” he urged him to continue, as he continued to wonder anxiously in his heart if her nightmares were not still gone over the years.

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The search was still for a long period of time with them trying to get the camera footage of nearby places, which was hard to even find because every camera was controlled by their own power source.

The CCTV cameras that were functioning well were the ones far from the mansion, placed on the major roads that led to different locations. Since they didn’t see her appear in any video that were thoroughly checked, it was concluded that she would have left in one of the cars that passed during those hours.

To make it easier, they had to get the footage and Information of every car that passed through a major and common route, before each now took the road to its own destination within the private property. It was going to be very time consuming to check everyone’s car information.

The technicians that were doing the research job were tense and uncomfortable, with the way Dalton refused to leave the room that they were operating in. It increased their anxiety and speed to work, tracing every car that passed at the speculated time that Aria was thrown out.

They continued to zoom and run car licence checks of different cars, as time passed by more and more. Finally, they were about to shortlist the number of cars that she would have probably left in, to three cars of different people aligned perfectly with the estimated time.

They ran more checks on the cars using the licenced number plates which was quite difficult because of the security, but were finally able to figure out the names of the car owners. The moment they called out their names, Dalton’s eyes dilated in shock as he turned to the person who was talking.Têxt belongs to NôvelDrama.Org.

“Collin Carson?! He came here to pick Aria up?” Dalton concluded on his own with a loud yell, as he turned to Alex who was already tensed about what would happen next.

The story had taken a surprising turn than he had plotted in his mind, and the lead character in the game was too violent. The battle between the two wealthy men would become fierce, over a lady who probably cared about none of them.

“Get me the car keys, right now!” He ordered.