He Took Me For Weak And Helpless Chapter 08

He Took Me For Weak And Helpless Chapter 08

“Where is she?”

Adrian stood in the middle of the empty hospital room, his voice low.

His gaze swept over the neatly made but lifeless bed, as if it were telling him in silence that Summer had

never been there at all.

“Are all the men I assigned here completely useless?” he suddenly roared, his anger hitting hard enough to

make everyone’s ears ring.

The bodyguards outside the door started shaking. Their knees buckled, and they dropped hard onto the cold

floor.

“M-Mr. Carter, we never left the door for even a second. From the moment we got the order to guard this room, Mrs. Carter… she never came back. We never even caught a glimpse of her!”

“She never came back?”

Adrian’s chest heaved as a towering wave of fury shot straight to his head.

He lifted his foot and kicked the nightstand beside him so hard it crashed to the floor with the medication bottles. Metal and glass exploded across the room in a shrill burst of noise, and flying shards sliced across the back of his already injured hand.

“The patriarch personally had people send her back here. He told me himself that she had been admitted safely. How could she not be here? Are you lying to me?”

He bit out each word through clenched teeth, his eyes nearly red with madness.

He had arranged everything perfectly. He had stayed right outside the room without leaving for even a second, his mind in turmoil at the thought of seeing her again in just a moment.

And in the end, all that met him was emptiness.

At that moment, Lola appeared slowly at the doorway. The instant she saw the empty room, a flash of satisfaction flickered through her eyes before she hurried forward.

“Adrian, Summer’s in such bad shape, and she’s still hurt. Where could she possibly have gone? Do you think maybe…” She let the rest trail off on purpose, her eyes turning faintly red.

Adrian’s cold gaze snapped toward her, open suspicion written all over his face.

Lola’s heart lurched, and the rest of her words died in her throat.

“Was this you Adrian demanded, stalking toward her step by step. “Lola, I warned you. Don’t go near her. and don’t pull anything behind my back.”

“I didn’t!” Tears sprang instantly to Lola’s eyes. One hand flew to her rounded stomach as she backed away again and again. “Adrian, I’m carrying your baby. All I want is what’s best for you. How could do something like this and make you angry? I was only worried about you, and worried about Summer too, so I came to check on things…”

Adrian couldn’t even be bothered to watch her performance any longer. His brows drew tight

He yanked out his phone, his fingers trembling with rage, and the moment the call connected, he nearly

shouted into it.

“Pull every camera feed in this hospital right now. I want everything from the main entrance to the hallways. from the elevators to the emergency exits. Don’t miss a single second. Lock down every exit immediately and send everyone to search. Find out where she went!”

Not long after, one of his men called back, panic obvious in his voice.

“M-Mr. Carter, we checked all the footage. All of it. It shows that Mrs. Carter never came back at all. She

never set foot in this hospital. Not once.”

The words hit Adrian like a thunderclap.

This wasn’t an accidental escape.

She hadn’t slipped out halfway through.

She had never come back in the first place.

Everything the patriarch had told him, every arrangement he claimed to have made, had all been a lie.

Adrian clenched his fists so hard his knuckles turned white. The out on the back of his hand split open again,

and fresh blood dripped onto the floor in bright, shocking drops.

“Summer, where do you think you can run?”

“No matter who helped you, and no matter where you hide, even if you run to the ends of the earth, I’ll drag

you back.”