His Devious Rule

It was a message to say the kids were safe but Jason furrowed instantly. Although he found Alvin to be unbearable at times, Alvin will pick up and drop the kids in the absence of Anya. Thus hearing Linus was tending to the kids, Jason was alarmed.

He quickly sent a message to his team, [Find out Alvin\'s location immediately.]

Shortly he received a message, [Country F.]

He excused himself to leave the room and immediately dialed Alvin\'s numbers through his satellite phone. The call was shortly answered and Jason immediately asked through his teeth, "What the fuck are you doing in country F?"

There was silence in the line, irritating Jason. He didn\'t have time to read the silence. "Alvin Matthews, have you f**king lost your mind?" He growled at the man accurately guessing Alvin was in country F for Anya.

He didn\'t have time to cater to the man but for Anya who got to live with the love of her life, he spared his time to explain, "Your mere presence around the crime scene will raise suspicion against you and put Anya in a questionable position." 

He purposefully picked Anya\'s name as Alvin cared about her and Anya can\'t keep cleaning up the mess behind Alvin after her missions by keeping her whole career at stake.

"Get the fuck away from there," Jason commanded the man and ended the call in exasperation. 

Criminals always fabricate their presence in the cities or countries during the crime. Even if Alvin purely wanted to protect his wife, either Anya will be disappointed to clean up Alvin\'s actions or she might have to question him if the criminals take Alvin\'s name and prove his presence in the country. 

Nobody believes in coincidence.

Jason could only hope Alvin wouldn\'t cause trouble for Anya with his overprotectiveness.

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At Garnet Township,

\'Show her face.\'

Her face was barely visible. Her gray eyes were hidden behind the dark lenses.  Anya unknowingly clutched Jackson\'s jacket wondering whether Miles identified her or was suspicious due to hair covering her.

With the other two cars passengers outside the villa, it wasn\'t the right time yet to take any action. Thus she wanted to delay the time like a frightened girl. Considering Jackson was protective of Emma, she shifted close to Jackson and hid behind him.

Jackson wrapped his hand around her, tugging her away from the man whose hand reached to touch her. "Why did you kidnap us?" He growled at them in panic. 

He feared those men assaulting Emma aka Anya. But it wasn\'t like she was the beautiful girl out there to pick her. Then why did they kidnap them?

Money?

"We don\'t have money." As human trafficking is always carried out with large numbers of victims in the movies, he could only come up with kidnap for ransom. "We are poor." He stressed the words looking around the living hall, hoping to be freed.

The burly man again warned Jackson through his teeth, "You chap, didn\'t I tell you to behave?" Clearly, he didn\'t have patience. 

He grabbed a handful of Anya\'s hair with his right hand and pushed Jackson away with his left hand.

Anya\'s eyes widened when the man\'s hand yanked her hair. Her hair wig will fall off thus she voluntarily had to get close to the burly man only showing the side profile of her face, pressing her wig on her head. She faked her cry while her scalp was prickling due to his hold on her real hair.

Everyone witnessed the burnt scars on the left side of Anya\'s face. A few furrowed in disgust and some faintly gasped. They understood why the girl used her hair to cover the sides of her face.

Jackson who steadied himself, involuntarily tugged Anya towards him. However, he identified Anya wasn\'t Emma. Although the scar looked identical, her facial structure was completely different. 

The burly man let go of Anya when Miles got the sight of a scar. They shifted their focus to the two men who entered the villa. Hence Miles failed to get a glimpse of Anya\'s face.

Nobody noticed Anya fixing her wig and Jackson watching her in bewilderment. 

From the corner of her eyes, Anya saw the two men greeting Miles and sitting down. From their angle, she can\'t capture their faces in the camera.

Taking the wet scarf from her jacket, she squeezed the water on the floor and left a wet trail on her pants.

Jackson snapped out when he sensed the movement of her hands. "You…" He was smart to read she was pretending to be peed in her pants due to fear. Whereas he could see no inkling of fear in her.

Anya cut in and shushed him in a low voice, "Shhh…." Her eyes met his shocked ones. She guessed Jackson learned she wasn\'t Emma. She whispered when the men were greeting each other, "Co-operate."

Dot who was holding his breath breathed in relief hearing Anya\'s voice and the men\'s voice without uncovering Anya\'s identity. 

Jackson recalled a change in behavior of Emma from the time she visited the restroom at Country E airport. She caught a cold out of nowhere, and she stopped talking. 

He remembered her asking him to stay behind her and listen to her in the car. Who was she?

More than the fear of the men around, he was curious to know who she was and what happened to Emma.

Stuffing the scarf back in the jacket, Anya stood next to Jackson and studied the people, their position, and the firearms. 

Once she drew the plan in her mind, She stepped on the pool of water at her feet and gasped loudly, stepping harder on the water to create the noise of water splash.

All the men turned to her and wrinkled their noses as if the room was stinking. They looked at the girl hanging her head lowly and cowering in fear.

Jackson: "…"

Miles grunted, waving his hand at the man who was standing close to the two students. He assumed that small actions of them scared the girl out of her wits.

This time Jackson watched the burly man who dragged Anya towards the bedroom on the ground floor. For odd reasons, he didn\'t fear Anya getting hurt. Instead, he wondered whether the man will come out of the room.