The Mafia’s Bride Snatcher - Chapter 26

Chapter 26: Night Exploration

Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations

Ravi’s POV

“Ravi, I want to tell you something.” Irina sat in the passenger seat with her fingers interlocked. I could tell that she was nervous.
“Speak. Don’t be afraid.” I had one hand on the steering wheel and the other on her hand to make her feel safe.

“I felt like I heard someone talking in the basement earlier.” She looked at me with her beautiful eyes, as if she wasn’t certain.
“Oh really? What did that person say?” I asked her with a smile to relieve her anxiety.

“The man said, Tm here.”
“Was it a man or a woman?”

“I didn’t know. I was scared. The voice came from the room at the end of the corridor, and it terrified me.”
“Are you sure it was the room at the end of the hallway?”

“Yes. I was about to open the door when Arthur stopped me.”

“I think you must have been mistaken, Irina.” I patted her hand and gave her a reassuring look.

Tunbuttoned my shirt as I went upstairs, and my mind couldn’t stop flashing back to those fragmented memories. I sent Irina back to her room, kissed her forehead, and then went to my office. I took off my shirt and threw it on the floor. I stood at the window and looked out at the darkness, and
suddenly, I remembered an autumn night three years ago.

A thought occurred to me. I had to go confirm it, so I made a call.

For three days, I kept waiting for Ivan to call. Finally, in the evening, my phone rang, I went to my room and put a gun in my shirt pocket, then said goodbye to Irina.

“Ravi, can I come with you?” Irina took my hand. Her eyes were shining brightly.

“Be good and wait for me to come back.” I kissed her on the lips. I couldn’t bear to let her out of my sight.

I arranged for Daniel and four other bodyguards to be responsible for keeping Irina safe. I drove away from the house alone.

Ivan, Roy, and a few others were waiting for me near my father’s villa. They had been lying in wait here for three days. They had finally found a chance—my father went to Las Vegas this afternoon.

Roy successfully hacked into the villa’s security system and put the surveillance footage on a loop. Then, we easily lured the two security guards at the door away and successfully snuck into the yard. I had lived here for eighteen years and knew everything about it.

We snuck into the villa and left two people to guard the two entrances to the villa. I brought Ivan and Roy to the basement. I saw the familiar door. On the surface, this door looked like the other wooden doors, but there was actually a metal door inside. This was the underground “prison’ I used to stay in
when I was grounded. I had a deep hatred for this door.

I opened the wooden door and a metal door appeared. However, this was not the same metal door as before. This door was new, and I saw a scanning system above the door lock.

“This is a biometric system. It needs to scan a person’s iris and compare the sound lines to unlock the door.” Roy studied the device carefully.

“What if we break through the door by force?”

“Then it’ll trigger the alarm.” Roy pointed to the alarm on the ceiling. “As far as I know, if it triggers the alarm, it’s very likely to kill everyone here.” He took out his tablet and sat on the floor.

Ivan and I waited anxiously beside him. After about twenty minutes, Roy succeeded in unlocking the door. Ivan and I took out our guns, and Roy pushed open the metal door. The basement was dark, and moonlight shone through a small window. Roy tured on the flashlight, and we realized that the
basement was empty.

Roy and Ivan looked at each other for a moment, then they both looked at me and waited for my next command.

I put down my gun and tumed to leave, but I stopped.

It was impossible. Such a tight security device wouldn’t be used to lock an empty room. There had to be something here. I picked up my gun and fired at the wall. The illusion in front of me instantly cracked. In its place, there were gold bars all over the room.
“The empty room we just saw was a virtual image on the screen,” Roy explained.

“We were almost fooled by Arthur.” Ivan smiled. “Look at this amount of gold. He never would have expected us to discover his secret.”

“He already thought of that,” I said. I held the flashlight against the wall, which had blood stains. “Someone was once locked in here.”

Ivan and Roy’s eyes were focused on where the flashlight was flashing. We were sure that someone had indeed been imprisoned here before, but now, this person had disappeared.

The door here was heavily guarded. How did the person inside disappear into thin air? Other than the metal door, the only way out was the window, but that window was extremely small and could not possibly accommodate an adult. Then the only explanation was that this person had left through the
metal door.

I instructed Roy and Ivan how to handle the aftermath and left.

Thoped my guess was wrong. In order to confirm my guess, I arranged for people to keep an eye on my father day and night..