Chapter 63 - Finally Here (3)

Moments later, Selena's eyes lit up but she hurriedly bowed her head to hide the light on her eyes, not wanting the scar-faced to see it. This was because she could see that although he was willing to tell her everything she wanted to know, it didn't mean that he was willing to help her escape and this could be seen by how he tried to dissuade her from escaping.

So, she didn't want him to see that she had thought of something feasible.

Her thought was that even if this was an abandoned refinery and was far from human dwellings according to him, then how had they gotten here?
Was it by foot? Selena doubted that. This meant that there was a very high probability that there was a vehicle somewhere!

Now. she just had to find a way to let the guard of this man and others who might be in hiding down, steal the car key and when they might not be paying attention, she escapes!
But the most important question was..

'Where is the car key?'

...

A black van was currently parked a few kilometres away from the abandoned refinery. Inside it were Justin and group as they sat emotionlessly inside the vehicle while peering out of its windows frequently, seemingly waiting for someone.

Soon.

Two cars arrived and parked beside the van with Ryan and Dan togehter with some other men getting out of the cars anxiously.

Justin and his group also got out of the car and met up with Ryan and Dan's group.

"What now?", Justin directed the question on everyone's mind to Ryan.

Ryan glanced around with anxiousness hidden beneath his forcibly calm facade and when he heard Justin's question, he answered without thinking.

"We barge in."

It was a statement rather than a suggestion and the way he said it meant there was no room for rebuttal. He wouldn't allow for it!

Although Justin was a bit confused as to why Ryan who had always been so rational to the point of almost being inhumane was suddenly not even bothering to hide his anxiety, he kept the question to himself and instead, threw a glance at Dan who stood beside Ryan and saw the former also throw Ryan a worried look.

The questions in his heart intensified but Justin knew that this wasn't the time to ask.
Everything had to wait until Selena has been rescued.

"So... no plan?", He asked Ryan for confirmation again.

Hearing his question, Ryan seemed to gain back a sliver of his rationality and turned to say to the Nighthtawk team after thinking for a second, "You guys should go ahead and hide secretly. If any unexpected situations should arise after we go in, you can appear by then to resolve it."

Both Justin and Dan sighed in relief on hearing his question. In particular, Dan's shoulders looked like a huge burden has been lifted off him.
He had been really worried that Ryan would disregard everything and rush to save Selena single-mindedly. The memory of the moment when Ryan had seen the message that Luke had typed out and was going to send to the group of people who had kidnapped Selena appeared in his mind and Dan shuddered subconsciously on remembering the murderous aura that had leaked out of his body.

He, who had taken no less lives than Ryan in his lifetime had felt a chill run down his spine at that moment so you could imagine the fate of the Luke to whom that aura had been directed at.

Dan could be sure that if it wasn't for the fact that Ryan needed to go save Selena urgently, it would have been hard for Luke to keep his life that moment and even if for some reason, for example , like Ryan wasn't able to bring himself to take his biological brother's life in the end. He still would have ended up with half of his life gone.

And that... was a surety.

However, Dan had to admit that Luke was really vicious and inhumane.

After knowing Selena's background, he knew that that was probably going to be the end for him but still, he planned not to make Ryan feel better. This was because the message he had typed out was to instruct his men whom he had ordered to kidnap Selena to take turns r*ping her!

It was obvious he wanted to take revenge on Ryan by doing that and make him feel everlasting pain and regret.

At the same time, Dan also felt that Luke was really stupid considering that he still did that after knowing that Selena's family was the F Nation's Preston family who even the president of this country had to give some considerable respect to. And also, didn't it occur to him how miserable his life would be after sending that message because excluding what Ryan was going to do him, would the Preston family allow someone who had humiliated and hurt their newly found princess to run around unharmed?

But maybe he did know all this, Dan mused to himself but it could just be that the thought of getting revenge on Ryan overwhelmed everything...

His thoughts got cut short when he heard someone call his name. He looked up and met Justin's gaze.

"What the hell are you daydreaming about?", Then he gestured for him to look a distance of just few metres away and Dan was surprised to see Ryan and their men, excluding the Nighthtawk team who had dissappeared after Ryan's orders already walking hurriedly, almost breaking into a run in the direction of the abandoned refinery.

He also looked around where he currently stood and found that except for the empty cars parked around them, he and Justin were the only ones left in the vicinity.

Dan exclaimed and hurriedly followed after Ryan's group and at the same time, complained softly to Justin who was also following right next to him.

"Really. He couldn't even wait for me.."

Justin sneered at his complaint and said with slight mocking in his tone, "Wait until you are in his shoes to say that."

Dan almost braked into a stop at Justin's words as he felt that he was cursing him.

That feeling intensified as the thought of how Nina and now, Selena who were his best friend's women had encountered kidnapping.

Thinking of Ariana getting kidnapped, Dan felt his hairs raise in alarm but he still remembered the situation they were currently in and had no plans to argue with Justin at this moment.

But after Selena has been rescued, I have to tell him to take those inauspicious words back.., He thought to himself.

The two of them soon caught up with Ryan's group and they all marched up the slight slope that led to the abandoned refinery in silence.

Suddenly, Justin remembered the call from Nina a while ago and what she had told him by the end of the call.

That now that the Preston's know that Selena had been kidnapped, it was highly possible that they would be coming down to Nova soon. Of course, this was what she had gleaned from their reactions and words before they ended the call.

"Ryan...", He called out, planning to tell Ryan about it.

"Uhm?", Ryan turned to look in him with questions in his eyes and for some reason, after seeing that, Justin suddenly decided not to say anything to him.

Forget it! I guess I will have to postpone it to after Selena is safe.

"Nothing", Justin smiled at him before patting his shoulder and said, "Just want to tell not to think too much. She will be fine, bro."

Ryan's face softened at Justin's words and he muttered under his breath as his eyes gazed in the abandoned refinery's direction, "I also hope so.."

Copying what Justin had done, Dan also patted Ryan's shoulders, "I also believe that she is going to be fine!"

Ryan's smiled shallowly at his best friends and brothers and said nothing, instead his pace grew faster and there was soon tendency to overtake the others.

On seeing that, the others also sped up and soon their figures soon disappeared into the distance...

...

At the same time, in the Walters' residence, Nina paced back and forth anxiously in the master bedroom as fear and worry pervaded her thoughts when the thought of Selena currently being held captive somewhere.

She had been through the same experience and had an idea of just how helpless and scared her best friend and sister would be at the moment.

Yet, she knew that she wasn't able to do anything to help her and if she should rashly attempt anything, it might end up backfiring and make her situation even more worse.

And that was not to mention the fact that she no idea whatsoever of where she had been kidnapped to, neither does she know the reason why she was kidnapped, though she could vaguely guess that it was related to her man, Ryan.

Not wanting to let herself think this any longer for fear that she would go crazy and be impulsive, Nina forced her thoughts back to the call that had woken her up moments ago.

At first, after knowing that Selena had been kidnapped, she had subconciously blurted it out in shock, forgetting that her other phone was still on call with their side. Therefore, after hearing that their daughter had been kidnapped, their reactions could be well imagined. Selena's mother in particular had reacted the most intensely as she screamed from the phone, making Nina doubt if she had actually put the call on speaker even though truthfully, she hadn't.

Selena's dad had taken it quite well, ignoring the tense tone with which he later asked her about what she knew about Selena's kidnapping, after comforting his sobbing wife.

She hadn't dared to hide anything from him as she knew just how worried sick they would be after knowing that their daughter had been kidnapped and had told him everything she knew, though that barely amounted to anything since she was just as clueless as them.

Mr. Preston seemed to know that as well and didn't embarrass her and soon hung up after knowing she knew nothing else. However, right before he hung up, she had heard him comfort Selena's mom again before telling her softly that everything would be fine and they would be coming down to Nova right away.

She had immediately called Justin back, having hung up on him after telling him it was too late to hide Selena's kidanpping from her parents previously and told him what she had heard. Even without Justin telling her, Nina knew that the reason why he wanted to hide it from the Preston's before she had let the cat out of the bag mistakenly was because he was afraid that they would find out that their daughter's kidnapping was inextricably linked to Ryan.

Nina also doubted that after they knew that, they would have a good impression of Ryan. She felt guilty for being the cause of that but she also knew that now was not the time to think about this problem.

Everything had to wait until Selena was safe and sound...

With that, Nina snapped out of her thoughts and stopped pacing around. Then, she sighed heavily before staring into the distance as she prayed for Selena's safety.

'Selena, please be okay...'