Midnight Bride The CEO’s Temptation

The helicopter took off slowly and headed for the sea.

James looked down. When he saw Simon racing to the car, James was slightly relieved. Simon would definitely come after Hazel. If so, Hazel's safety would be more guaranteed.

Simon hurried to the harbor as fast as he could. When he got there, he directly got into a speedboat.

"Have you found out who it is?" Simon asked, looking pale.

There were actually moles among his men! Worse still, at such a critical point, there was such a severe accident! If it weren't for the wrong time, he would thoroughly investigate this incident and completely wipe out the moles!

"Yes…" Chester's face was pale. He hesitated, not knowing how to speak.

"Go ahead!" Simon snapped.

Chester had no choice but to reply, "Those people who went to the sea are the ones the Flores family gave you. They have been following you loyally for years..."

Simon's face paled slightly.

The Flores family was his mother's family. That year, after the organization quitted Country Z, the people in the organization started urging Ted to marry and have children to have a successor.

At that time, Elise Flores, Simon's mother, stood up. With the help of his uncle, Ian, his mother ended up being the woman who Ted chose. However, Ted agreed that Elise could give birth to a baby, but he wouldn't marry her.

Elise agreed, but she died in childbirth while giving birth to Simon. Later, because of Ted's indifference to Simon and Simon's deliberate alienation from Ted, Simon was almost brought up by his uncle, and they were very close.

So how could Simon possibly suspect the people his uncle gave him? What was more, those people had been really loyal to Simon before.

Simon looked even paler. Suddenly, he snapped, "Where are the people who kidnapped Hazel?!"

"Your uncle's men saved them," Chester said, "and took Madeline away in passing..."

"Why did they take Madeline away?" Simon frowned tightly, and he waved impatiently. "Never mind."

He took out his phone and called Ian, with a sullen face. No matter what his uncle wanted to do, this time, Ian took action behind Simon's back, which really tested Simon's patience! Even if he was Simon's closest friend, how could he arrange spies around Simon?

The phone hadn't been answered. It looked like Ian was not going to answer it.

Simon hung up directly and snapped, "Go to Stacy Island now!"

He didn't support Joshua because he thought Joshua was a hundred percent safe. How could Simon not go since there was such an incident?

Moreover, Simon felt that there were some things that Hazel hadn't told him for some reason.

She couldn't chase just because these guys saved her kidnappers or Madeline, which meant they did something else that forced Hazel to follow.

"Yes!" Chester hurried off to drive the speedboat.

Dozens of speedboats followed them, speeding away from the harbor.

***

On Stacy Island, Ted asked everyone to go away and took Joshua to the study.

"You misunderstand me." Ted's eyes were calm and deep as if he had seen through everything.

Joshua's mouth tightened into a thin line. Stacy had suffered for more than 20 years. Whether he misunderstood Ted, he couldn't forgive Ted. That was Ted's inability to make his woman suffer so much!

"It looks like you're not going to listen to any of my explanations," Ted said quietly. "Alright, what are you going to do?"

"I'll take you away." Joshua's eyes dimmed slightly, and he said coldly, "The world no longer needs Ted."

"As expected of my son. You are really cruel…" Ted mocked himself. Joshua meant to imprison him and declare him dead. By then, of course, there would be no Ted in the world.

"You deserve it!" There was a touch of hostility in Joshua's voice!

"It's very hard for you to take me away." Ted looked at him quietly. "Joshua, try to convince me. If you can convince me, I'll consider going with you."

Joshua suddenly said, "Lone Wolf, Thunder Leopard, Sharp Eagle, Fire Vulture, Falcon..."

As he said the names, Ted's face turned paler and paler.

The names were spies he had deliberately planted when he left Country Z. They escaped the relevant authorities' purges of the organization. After lurking for so many years, they were almost all ambitious, capable figures with powerful or weak forces.

Now, each of the names that Joshua mentioned meant one of Ted's strongholds had been exposed.

After saying nearly twenty names, Joshua looked at Ted nonchalantly. "Anyone missing?"

"No, you've wiped out all the hidden strongholds of the organization," Ted said. Instead of being flustered, he was somewhat delighted. "You're more capable than I thought."

"Denmark Group is much stronger than the organization in Country Z," Joshua said in a deep tone. "That's my turf!"

If he was not able to wipe out the organization's strongholds on his turf, Joshua needed to doubt if the Denmark Group he had been running for years was just a paper tiger!

"But Stacy Island is my turf," Ted said lightly. "You haven't got enough men to take all my people down. As soon as I press this button, my men will rush in and take you down."

Ted put his finger on an inconspicuous button on the wall, but he didn't intend to press it. Instead, he said, "Besides, even if you imprison me, do you think the organization will let it go? I've run the organization for so many years, and I have a lot of trusted subordinates. Country Z is terrible, but I'm sure they'll be willing to fight for saving me."

Joshua's eyes flashed with a hint of sarcasm. Simon had assured him repeatedly that there would be no problem with the organization. He didn't believe it at first, but now he did. Ted might have been hiding for recreation for too long; what he knew was far behind.

"You can press it," Joshua said calmly. "and see if there will be someone coming to rescue you."

Ted's face paled slightly. Instead of pressing it, he said, "Have you and Simon joined forces?!"

Joshua's eyes flickered with surprise. Ted showed the appearance that an ambitious, powerful man should have at long last.

Just judging from one of Joshua's sentences, Ted could actually guess that they had joined forces.

"I thought..." Ted said with somewhat mixed feelings. "You reject Simon."

After all, he had not explained the past to them.