Alan had wrapped up his work and exited the villa to quickly reach Aria but received a call from Isaac. He answered to hear, "Alan, Arrie is missing."

The mobile slipped from his hand. She hadn't taken her handgun.

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He reacted quickly and didn't let the mobile fall on the ground and break by stopping from his foot.

'Patience... Patience...' He repeated himself and hung up the call.

He quickly checked the location of her GPS and ran towards the direction.

He remembered something and called Isaac. He didn't wait for him to respond, "Meet the head of the village and ask him if there are any groups who work for the money. Quick."

Alan had kept the guards at the village entrance to know about the arrivals of suspicious men so that Aria could relax better. Now he regretted keeping them far.

He again checked the location of Aria but it was out of the coverage area.

They were in a remote village and it wasn't surprising for Alan. On the way to her last coverage location, he met Noah who was in a half-conscious state.

Rian was visible fine and said, "Bro, it's like my system is weakening or maybe just sleepy. Little devil had sniffed this rose then Noah and me."

Alan didn't bother, "Keep it in the room."

Eva was trembling in fear, Roxy was supporting Rian. She wanted to go with Alan but Isaac spoke, "You two girls, go to the villa and stay there. I have work."

Eva clutched Isaac's jacket in nervousness as she balanced Noah.

Isaac cupped her face, "Be strong. Nothing will happen to Aria. She is trained to control her mind. Alan will reach her soon."

Eva bit her lips and nodded.

There were many things everybody didn't know about Aria. But it's just that she couldn't take physical torture for long.

Alan hadn't reached the last location of her GPS but he had already reached away from the residential area. The path was leading him towards the forest.

Isaac met the head of the village, "Village Chief, we need your help."

The village chief was a man in the sixties. He frowned looking at Isaac breathing heavy and his urgency.

"What happened young man? Take a seat. Relax and tell me."

Isaac vigorously shook his head, "It's urgent. My sister is missing. Is there a group of men or a man who works for money in this village?"

The village chief instantly realized the issues. He shook his head too, "We don't have in our village but across the hill, Jian has such people."

He continued after a pause, "Young man, your sister might have lost the route..."

Isaac denied, "She is good with directions. Do you know where they will be if they kidnap anybody?"

The village chief grunted loud enough to nearly deafen Isaac, "Joy..."

A well-built man entered the house from the backdoor, "Dad..."

"Take our guest to the old wood factory in the forest."

"But..."

Village chief grunted again, "Do as I say. Leave now."

Joy bowed to his father and led Isaac towards the forest from the shortcut as he asked the reason.

Alan saw handcrafted beads on the path falling at quite a distance each as his path directed to the last location of his mobile.

He searched the contact and found an unused contact name. As soon as it was received, he asked, "Ms. Miller, did Aria buy anything that has beads?"

Eva took a few seconds to respond. Alan frowned hard but controlled himself from lashing out.

"She didn't buy it. She had my bracelet in her jacket."

Alan hung up without any response and followed the beads fallen path steadily without knowing if he was on the right or wrong path.

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Aria knew somebody was carrying her and rushing away from the residential area. Her mind was buzzing but she put her whole concentration on her breathing.

Vince had told her, if she let the drug take control over her, she would play as the drug was prepared. If she forces her mind away from it, she could control it.

Since it was a village, she started to think the drug might not be strong enough. She heard water flowing and groaned.

"Water... Water... Water..."

Those men were shocked to hear her. They thought she wasn't in consciousness.

The man who was caring for her, let her down to see Aria's half-closed eyes as she continued to groan.

Aria attentively heard them talking and realized they were local thugs.

Two things could keep her awake, physical pain or water. But water would only help if the drug was just to make her unconscious.

So she started saying in a muffled tone, "Water water water..."

Failing to understand her, a man slapped her, "What are you murmuring you b*tch?"

The best thing they could have done was getting her water. Aria hated men raising their hand at women the most upon that they kidnapped her.

Her eyes growled with killing intent. She knew she couldn't go by strength so she decided to play them.

"Ahhhh... I want water. My throat is dry."

Four men were shocked to see she was talking normally.

A man shouted, "Hit her and make her unconscious."

Aria smirked before controlling, "Nooo..."

She quickly held the hand of the man and cried like a weak one, "I will come with you silently. I swear. Don't hit me."

That man failed to notice her strength and defenses style while stopping his hand or probably he didn't even know.

Four men looked at her and hesitatingly nodded. Aria nodded and walked between the two and went into the forest as she continued to leave the clues without their knowledge.

They walked for nearly twenty minutes in complete silence. They didn't trust their instincts which were screaming at them not to trust her because they just saw her as a weak little girl.

Aria entered an old factory, it was a handcrafting factory of woods instead of modernized machinery.

She heard men talking.

"I will go first."

"I will go first."

"No, My turn is first."

"Did you forget who found the medicines? I will go first."

Aria understood easily they wanted to ravish her. She went and sat peacefully looking at them scanning the surroundings carefully.

At one point, one couldn't hold his urge and pounced on Aria and pinned her down.

Aria frowned seeing her both hands in the man's hand who had average looks.

She tried to move her legs but failed. She didn't expect her plan to backfire her so easily.

'Shit, Aria, why were you overconfident? You are so dead."

She gritted her teeth when the man sniffed her hair fragrance and moved towards her neck but she wasn't at the place to avoid him.