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Chapter 81
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It's been days since Lucia and Ezekiel Chen were rescued from the hands of their kidnapper, Rick.Rick had been arrested by the city police and had been detained without bail.Gregor Quinn who happened to be the mastermind of all of this had been on house arrest in one of his houses.He wasn't allowed to talk or communicate with the outside world. For a proud and arrogant man like him, it was a huge blow.The worst part of all of this is that his family wasn't informed of his whereabouts.He wasn't even informed about who was keeping him captive or why they were keeping him captive but he had a hunch that the one keeping him captive is a powerful person.Despite being annoyed at being treated like a prisoner.
The 40% shares in his hands kept him arrogant but his arrogance didn't last long as he was forced to sign the transferRelated chapters
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