Standing Before Love (Myra and Sean)

Chapter 713

The sky gradually darkened. Heather and Leon walked together, but they still couldn’t see any sign of

the car. A rather worried Leon then asked, “Are you sure the car is really parked at a conspicuous spot,

Heather?” He even suspected that the car might have been stolen.

“I’m sure of that.” Heather felt they would probably see the car if they walked a little further.

“It can’t possibly have been stolen, can it?” asked Leon, discouraged. As such, he couldn’t stop himself

from voicing his doubts.

“That’s not possible,” Heather replied categorically. The car had a superb anti-theft function, so how

could it be stolen that easily?

Leon continued to follow Heather. It’s so normal for a luxury car parked in desolate countryside to be

made off with, he thought to himself. Instantly, he lost all his vigor like a deflated balloon, and they

walked around while looking fruitlessly for a long time.

Eventually, Heather took her cell phone out of her pocket. At this moment, it seemed that they could

only rely on the positioning system to find the car. Leon didn’t realize what Heather was trying to do

until he saw what she was doing, and he realized that they had totally forgotten about this earlier.

“Have you detected the car’s location, Heather?” He leaned closer to her as he was in desperate need

of a car right now. After all, they were on a barren and desolate mountain where the vehicles passing

by were mostly trucks. If they wanted to leave here sooner, they could only find their car. In an instant,

he was well motivated again, dying to see the car at once.

Heather looked at the location displayed on her cell phone. The car was nearby, but why couldn’t they

find it no matter how hard they searched? She was somewhat perplexed, and Leon also found this

rather strange. Hence, they looked at each other in puzzlement. “What should we do now, Heather?”

Leon became even more convinced that the car must have been stolen, and it seemed that thieves’

skills nowadays had become better and better.

“I think they probably camouflaged the car a bit.” Heather looked at one particular spot with a false

smile. Earlier on, I told them to park the car at a conspicuous place. Why can’t they understand human

language? she thought to herself.

Leon followed Heather’s gaze and saw the car as expected. He then said to Heather with a sullen

expression, “This place does seem conspicuous, huh.”

As soon as he finished his sentence, he walked forward directly. Had Heather not checked the car’s

location, they probably would’ve searched for the car until the second half of the night without any

success. Leon walked toward the vehicle with an unhappy expression, whereas Heather followed

leisurely behind him. However, just as he was about to approach the car, she suddenly felt a sense of

danger. In fact, Leon was ready to remove the branches from the car himself when she suddenly

shouted, “Stop, Leon! Something’s wrong.”

Leon’s outstretched hand paused in midair as he turned around and looked at Heather with a puzzled

look. “What’s wrong, Heather?”

She quickly stepped toward Leon and dragged him behind her directly. Then, she picked up a stone

from the ground and threw it right at the car.

Just like that, the stone produced a sound as it hit the vehicle. Heather’s hunch told her that this car

had been tampered with, but nothing happened at all. Hence, Leon looked at her in confusion. “Don’t

prank me at a time like this, Heather.” Thinking that the woman was merely teasing him, he shook her

hand off directly and walked straight over to the car.

As a loud boom ensued just then, Leon was knocked over directly as a result of the heatwave

produced by an explosion. He was fortunate to be strong and vigorous, or else he would’ve died here

today. As the raging flames burned, he got up from the ground and looked at Heather with a trace of

panic and confusion. He looked very ghastly, for another explosion had happened. He was f*cking out

of luck this year.

“The car has been tampered with.” Heather’s features were almost contorted. For the time being, she

didn’t know who was the culprit behind this.

“What’s wrong with this, Heather?” Leon wondered in his mind whether this was the work of the bunch

of perverse guys. There had been an endless stream of assassination attempts on his family since the

Middle Ages, so it had to be said that he was lucky to be safe and alive until now. At the thought of this,

he wished he could return to his family and come to a standoff with those who had the face of a human

but the heart of a beast.

“We’re being stalked.” Heather believed that someone must be peeping at them in secret.

“What should we do now, Heather?” Leon knew nothing about Solaria’s rules, and this place wasn’t his

turf.

“Call the police. This is the crime scene, so we should try our best not to disturb anything here,”

Heather replied as she took out her cell phone and began calling the police. After making the phone

call, she stayed where she was and silently watched as the fire grew in intensity across from her. It

probably wouldn’t take long before the forest would be burned down as well. At the same time, she also

called the fire brigade. Since this incident was too abominable in nature, she had to calm down and sort

out the whole matter.

“I’m sorry, Heather. I’m probably the one who’s caused this trouble.” Leon looked at the woman

apologetically. He surmised it was probably that bunch of people who did this—they loved creating

explosions the most because evidence of the crime would rarely be left behind by doing so. Then, he

looked bitterly at the growing fire in front of him.

“No head or tail can be made of this incident yet, so don’t blame yourself for this. I’m the one who

probably brought you into trouble.” Heather didn’t know what on earth was going on, but she suspected

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“Are we going to wait here, Heather?” Leon watched how the fire grew in intensity and was worried that

their safety might be endangered.

However, Heather refused to leave this place as she wanted to wait until the police arrived. “Yeah.

We’re on a clearing, so the fire won’t reach us.”

Seeing how stubborn she was, Leon felt that he couldn’t chicken out either. After all, there was some

distance between them and the fire anyway. On the other hand, Heather suddenly felt a bit tired, and

she crouched down on her own. Leon crouched down as well and looked at her with his eyes full of

care and sympathy.

Shortly after that, she received a phone call from Zayne. “Where are you right now, Heather? Hurry

back to Bradfort City. You’re in grave danger right now, and I heard that someone wants to have you

assassinated.” He learned of this rumor somewhere.

Heather didn’t expect Zayne to learn the news so quickly. Her eyes flickered, and one couldn’t fathom

her innermost thoughts. “I can’t go back right now. I have something important to finish.” She couldn’t

go back since she wasn’t someone who cravenly clung to life instead of braving death.

“Stop fooling around. What else is more important than your life?” Zayne was almost pissed off by

Heather as he knew how stubborn the latter was.

“Grandpa is going to die at any time, so I must find a renowned doctor to cure him.” Heather had

wanted to hide this from Zayne earlier, but what kind of a person was he? He would uncover this

sooner or later, so she decided to confess to him instead.

“You really don’t care about your life. All right then, don’t do anything rash and send me your location.

I’ll go to you right away.” Zayne couldn’t leave someone in the lurch, especially when the person was

Heather as she tugged at his heartstrings.

“Don’t come over here. I can hardly protect myself right now, and I’m afraid of dragging you into trouble

if you come over right now.” Heather had already brought Leon into this mess, so she didn’t want to do

the same to Zayne.

“Those who want to kill me are more than I can count on my fingers. I’m the dangerous person here,”

Zayne replied in a bantering tone. At any rate, he needed to rush to Heather’s side immediately since

he couldn’t allow anything wrong to happen to her. “I can find out where you are even if you don’t send

me your location,” he added specifically, not wanting to waste time because of her soft-heartedness.

Upon hearing Zayne’s words, Heather could only tell him her location. Either way, he wouldn’t be able

to come to her in such a short period of time unless he came by private jet. “Keep in constant touch

with me, and don’t trust anyone else,” he said before hanging up the phone.

When the call ended, Heather looked at Leon with an apologetic expression. “I’m sorry, but I’m the

target of this explosion.”

Leon had heard most of Heather’s conversation with Zayne while she was talking over the phone. He

looked at her with heartache, unable to imagine who on earth would plot a murderous scene against

her. “In that case, are we going to wait for Zayne here?” he asked in a tender voice. He wished he

could take Heather into his arms right now, but he suppressed this urge instead.

“I don’t know that. Let’s wait for the police to arrive first.” Heather shook her head. Zayne wasn’t

superman, so the police would probably turn up before him.

“Didn’t Zayne tell us not to trust anyone easily? Can we trust the police later?” Leon asked worriedly.

Would it be a mistake if we wait for the cops? he thought to himself.

“I trust the police,” Heather replied assertively out of a sense of justice. “Even if the person who’s trying

to have me assassinated bribes the police, I don’t believe that he can bribe the entire police

department. We’ll definitely go to the police station later, and I believe that place will be very safe.”

When he saw the look on Heather’s face, Leon decided to believe her judgment, so he gave her a

heavy nod. “We must be together all the time later, Heather. If anything happens, we can look after

each other.” He demonstrated unusual courage in the face of such a thing. Since he had experienced

this before, he could think calmly and comfort her at the same time.

“Okay.” They still had a long night ahead of them, and no one knew what else would happen later.

Perhaps because she had experienced an explosion before, Heather seemed quite indifferent this time.

Still, the previous explosion happened a distance away from her, whereas this time’s explosion almost

killed her. As she narrowly escaped the jaws of death, she suddenly felt lucky to be still alive. How

wonderful this feeling was! Suddenly, she came around to some ideas that she had been unable to

come around to. For instance, Matthias popped up in her mind right at that moment. She still couldn’t

get over him, and she wanted to share her thoughts with someone at this moment. “Are you willing to

help me, Leon?” she asked quietly like a ghost.

“Yes, I am,” Leon replied without hesitation. He would try his best to satisfy or help Heather as long as

he was needed. Sometimes, she was like a member of his family. Apart from love, they had established

a kind of familial affection between them that went beyond blood relationships.

“I want to have the aid of your family’s influence, so we must get engaged.” Heather had to take

advantage of Leon’s family this time since she knew that his family had extraordinary international

influence.

“You have my word,” he responded without the slightest hesitation.

“But the one I love is Matthias, so we will break off our engagement when the crisis is over.” Heather

was particularly frank this time, but she knew that Leon would definitely agree to her request as long as

she made one. Even though doing so would be unfair to him, she really couldn’t make do with the

situation. Now that the one she loved had shown up, she couldn’t marry someone she didn’t love.

Leon’s face turned very ghastly. He couldn’t stop himself from feeling desolate as Heather’s words

could be interpreted to mean that she wanted to exploit him. He looked at her as she looked at him,

and they glanced straight into each other’s eyes.