Husband you've abandoned me. Fine, I'll focus on raising my son-Chapter 250: Comfort and hiding

ANTHONY’S POV

I played with the rope for a while, and then I noticed something on the window of the room. It was a hook to help open it.

But the window was too high up, and I wouldn’t be able to reach the hook. I looked up at the window as I thought about it. I saw shadows of people walking outside, so I could see the window led outside. If I could escape from here, it would be perfect because there aren’t any bodyguards in this room who follow me everywhere.

I then looked down at the rope in my hands. After looking at it for a little bit, I realized maybe I could use it. It was a really long rope. It was probably my best bet to try to reach it. I tied a little loop on the rope so it could hook onto the window hook.

I then began to try to throw it up to the window, but it didn’t really reach.

The rope was long, but it was too short to reach the window. I kept trying, though.

"Ack!" I said in frustration after my attempts did nothing. I didn’t want to give up, though. After lunch, for the rest of the afternoon, I just kept throwing the rope up to the window.

It was late in the afternoon when I heard footsteps coming toward the room again. I immediately stopped my rope throwing and listened. I clearly heard the footsteps approaching.

This wasn’t the time for dinner, so what were they doing here already? I looked down at the rope and panicked for a moment.

Where do I hide it? I thought to myself.

My eyes scanned the room. Under the uncomfortable bedmat? I don’t know what if they find it and throw it away?

I looked everywhere in the room, realizing it was too empty. There was nowhere for me to hide it.

Then, almost giving up eyes, then focused on the only place in the room I hadn’t thought of. The toilet. Ew. 𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞

I went to it as I thought of it. I then quickly opened the tank part of the toilet that fills up with water to flush, then stuffed it inside. Then I closed the tank with the lid.

The door was then unlocked and opened as I walked away from the toilet back to the mat.

One of the bodyguards my uncle had watch over me stood in the doorway to the room.

"Come out. Your punishment is over now," he told me.

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JASMINE’S POV

I froze as I looked at Keith’s desktop screen in disbelief. Completely mortified by the images of Tony.

Before I knew it, tears streamed down my cheeks. It had been almost three weeks now since I had seen and heard from Tony, and seeing him in such a state was...

"Jasmine..." Keith said my name with concern. He stood up from his desk. "This is why I didn’t want you to see the pictures."

I had to see the pictures, though. I had to know what state Tony was in.

Keith took the liberty of wrapping his arms around me and hugging me. I wanted to recoil from his touch but decided against it, sticking to my plan. I just let myself cry, genuinely. I was upset by the images.

He didn’t say anything; he just let me cry.

After a moment, I pulled away from him first as I tried to compose myself. I took a tissue from his desk to subtly compose myself.

"What are they doing to Tony?" The words choked out of my mouth.

Seeing Tony in that state...it was a lot. He was tied up, alone, scared, and with Diana and her sponsor. My mind was spiraling at the thought of what he was currently going through. The only thing that brought some relief was that he looked physically unharmed, but still, a 9-year-old tied up like that...

"I’ll make them pay," he said.

"What are you going to do, Keith? They want your company," I said to him.

"We’ll find them before the two weeks come to an end," he told me

"They took so long to send the ransom," I commented.

"Probably because they wanted to make sure they would be untraceable. If they are sending it now, they think we won’t find them. From the looks of this company, they want out of the country," he told me. "I’m sure if we check, it will be a shell company to throw us off."

He then turned to the bodyguards. I need you to trace where this email came from now!" He barked the order.

The bodyguards rushed to him and immediately began taking notes.

He had me sit down in his seating area again. I looked down at the documents I had been going through, feeling unstable. I couldn’t immediately go back to working like this. My hand came up to my head as if I had a headache. The urgency to find Tony was getting to me.

For the rest of the day, Keith worked to gain as much information on the email whilst also trying to do his normal daily tasks. I commended him for it.

I took a pause from working to process the ransom. I did try to continue working, but I couldn’t really focus.

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Later that night, Keith already had some updates on the ransom email. We were in his office when Keith revealed their findings.

"So I had the email address checked, and it is encrypted and has multiple layers of security to it. It is a method of encryption used by high-level hackers," Keith said as he laid out all the documents on the table. We were seated in the seating area of his office on opposite couches. The documents were on the table in the center between us.

"The company that the kidnappers want me to sign off my shares to this Silver holdings is, in fact, a shell company in Dubai," he said as he pointed towards those documents. "In other words, a fake company, and on top of that, they chose a country with lax laws to place this ’company’. Basically, the owners of a company do not have to be publicly disclosed."