Chapter 1: KIDNAPPING

"CEO Edward, your wife... your wife is in trouble!"

The person sitting on that chair is Louis Woyt Edward, he has just received a call from an investor for an upcoming big project. I was planning to take my wife out tonight to have a delicious meal and please her, but immediately the secretary outside rushed in, giving him a phone, in which there was a video sent.

“This afternoon I received an anonymous email, I am also quite cautious. However, due to a bad hunch, I decided to open it to check it out, not expecting that inside the email was a video and a text above the content."

“Louis Edward…Long time no see, can we also sit down and talk? I can always, but maybe you can't…”

Louis was dumbfounded for a few seconds because in the video recorded the scene of an unknown man detain his wife. The length of the video is only about thirty seconds, in which he sees them in a classical house, on the wall is a painting of the painter Van Gogh: "The obsession of the dark..."

Louis saw his wife lying on a rather large bed, her arms and legs both locked with specially designed handcuffs. These handcuffs appear to be sized to his wife's hand so they seem to fit snugly on her hand. Louis' wife was lying on the bed and was beginning to fall into a coma, probably because the anesthetic had not worn off and she was still not aware of where she was right now, her mouth softly mumbling a few words that just looking at Louis made Louis. recognizable: “Louis…Louis…help me…”

Louis' heart was on fire, and his entire body was red-hot with rage. He slammed into the table with a loud crash; the time indicated on the video is three o'clock (France time); it would take some time to fly back to France from Germany, so he hurriedly ordered the secretary to place an order. He bought an airline ticket to France, where he would never return. When he saw his wife laying on the bed, his lips started shouting out his name, rendering Louis unable to concentrate; his strong brain, with an IQ of over 180, began chirping and told him he needed to calm down; but how can Louis be calm?

"Louis, I have just received a news that the forthcoming project has been successfully signed, you are very good, you are my son," his father, Mr. Odette Woyt Edward, said over the phone. "The entire Edward estate is yours as long as you endeavor to make the most of your resources."

Mr. Odette appeared to be really proud of his son, so on the other end of the telephone, he was continually discussing the benefits of the deal being signed. He wanted his son to be able to take the Phoenix Ed firm throughout the world, and what surprised him the most was that his son had accomplished things beyond his wildest dreams in just two short years. However, contrary to his father's excitement, Louis was extremely worried; perhaps Mr. Odette's daughter-in-law was kidnapped.

"Dad, I'm going to France. Phoebe's in trouble, I just received an email from the kidnapper, the confirmation time is in France. She seems extremely scared.” Louis said to brief Mr. Odette.

“Louis, the upcoming contract is very important, tomorrow I have a meeting with partners to discuss project development strategy. Today, people have agreed to sign, but if I can't see you tomorrow, the consequences will be extremely difficult. Louis, I know you're worried about Phoebe but it looks like the enemy side is using Phoebe to intimidate us, so you can't fall into their trap." Odette slowly analyzed the situation, “What's going on in France, you leave it to me, I will ask a friend in France to investigate and analyze, as long as you sign the contract, Phoebe will come back. child side. I promise you that.”

Mr. Odette was probably much calmer than Louis, from the moment Louis told him about his wife's kidnapping he was trying to analyze it for the best. Yes, maybe because Louis thinks too much, signing the contract is really important and maybe the opponent side is trying to distract him. Louis sat down, the secretary had just called to inform him of the flight information, hung up, he rubbed his temples, his face was extremely painful. His head was filled with mixed information, he didn't know how to synthesize it. Why France? Unhappy memories suddenly appeared in Louis's head, pictures and obsessions from the past; at that moment Louis heard Phoebe's groans trying to call for help. Strangely enough, who is the kidnapper?

1

"Do you think he's coming?"

The kidnapper sitting on the bed next to him was Phoebe Edward, wife of CEO Louis Edward. Like in the submitted video, her arms and legs are both locked by specially designed handcuffs; perhaps they were designed just for her. Phoebe has woken up, she also realizes where she is, however she can't speak, her mouth has been gagged with thin tape, perhaps the kidnapper is quite confident because this place will No one could hear the young girl's cry for help.

"What do you want to say?" He continued to speak when he saw Phoebe's eyes staring at him, a look that was both fear and hatred mixed in it. Seeing Phoebe's slight nod, he quickly removed the tape from her mouth, so she could talk more easily.

“Let me out…why kidnap me?” Phoebe couldn't articulate every word, but she still managed to make it clear what kind of situation she was in.

“Have you been drugged to the point of not being sober?” The kidnapper laughed with a savage grin. “You're a good bait to lure Louis Edward to, guess he's here for a wife he doesn't love at all? Or maybe he decided to sacrifice her, but in the past he sacrificed the girl he loved the most.”

“He's coming…” Phoebe said, moving her arms and legs as if she were trying to get her hands free from the cuffs. However, the cuffs remained the same, only her arms and legs would turn red if she tried to move to get out.

The kidnapper saw that action, involuntarily he laughed even harder. What appeared before his eyes was the image of the daughter of the enemy he hated the most, lying in his control. The girl was trying to break free from the handcuffs that were locking her limbs on the bed but to no avail. Of course, to be able to prepare these things, he had to order these tools in Switzerland for months, from measuring the sizes to the materials that had to be carefully checked by him to this day. .

“No way, these keys are specially made for you, Phoebe. I worked hard for today, so you should also be a little obedient.”

“Let me go…I don't care who you are, but I won't let you get what you want.” Phoebe tried to pull her hand away from the cuffs that were locking her down, but the more she pulled, the redder her hand became and her wrist started to bleed. Exhausted, Phoebe released her hand, wincing in pain. "Kill me..."

“Kill her? Ridiculous. Are you not confident in your husband? Remember the time when she had just been married into Edward's house, she had been estranged from him for a long time. He still remembers the girl he sacrificed to protect his life, but never remembers her. Phoebe, you're just a substitute in his toy collection."

The kidnapper laughed in delight, Phoebe painfully looked the other way. She clearly understood Louis's love for her, she also knew that he had never truly loved her since the day she was married to Edward's house; If it weren't for the marriage of the two families, he probably wouldn't have married her. There was an invisible distance between her and Louis, so far that it made her feel suffocated. Phoebe shed a tear, her whole body heating up. That's right, the day before she discovered she had a fever, she was going to buy medicine; However, when she took a few steps, she was drugged by a certain guy, making her comatose until now. The fever still didn't go down, Phoebe's throat burned, she was both scared and tired, she only said one word: "Water.." and passed out.

“Louis Edward, then see, do you decide to sacrifice everything for this girl…”

The kidnapper started taking out a bag of water, he expertly injected something into Phoebe's veins, it seemed to be medicine so after a while, Phoebe's facial muscles started to relax and she started breathing steadily than. He took a towel from the closet and knotted it, then put the knotted part in Phoebe's mouth and tied the ends. When he finished, he looked at his watch, it was already eight o'clock in the evening. He decided to go out to dinner, leaving the girl tied up on the bed.

2

"Flight number GF2548 departing from Germany to Paris, France is about to depart, we would like to invite you to quickly stabilize your position so that we can start our flight..."

The plane's loudspeaker began to play, but the announcement, Louis sat on the flight, his heart was like fire, he wanted to quickly go to France so that he could find the person who kidnapped his wife. He has always been in control of everything, but now when he sees his wife in the hands of another man, his heart is extremely hot. Part of him was afraid that Phoebe would be in danger and another part of him was afraid that the person he had in mind was the one who had kidnapped Phoebe.

Two hours ago…

“I will go, I will go to France to find her. You can't stop me." Louis firmly said.

“What about the contract? This is a rare opportunity, if you let it go, you will never get a second chance.” Mr. Odette looked angry, he coughed for a few hours, but quickly regained his anger.

“So what about Phoebe? Don't you think about her safety? If I remember correctly, that person is back. He kidnapped Phoebe and used her to threaten me, Phoebe also seems to be unwell. I will quickly settle the matter in France and then return, the matter of the contract has been rescheduled."

There was an overwhelming silence on the other end of the line, I don't know if Mr. Odette heard what Louis said, but all he knew was that he kept silent for a long time, it seemed he didn't want to talk or was thinking about something. About ten minutes later, Mr. Odette spoke up: “Is that person…”

“Yes, serial killer, that year his nickname was The Haunt of the Night.”