Chapter 1244

At that moment, the doors to the villa were opened, and in stepped a few bodyguards, dragging Rita along with them. Rita herself was struggling quite a bit to get free as she shouted, “Unhand me! Unhand me this instant!” “Cease this at once!” shouted Gerald as he immediately began walking over to them. “…Gerald?” muttered Rita in a rather surprised tone the second she saw him. From the moment her cousin had gone missing, she hadn’t met or even heard any news about Gerald. Snapping out of her shock quickly, Rita then thought to herself, ‘Humph… Gerald Crawford… The rich heir of the Crawford family with near-endless wealth… Being so powerful, I had my doubts that you’d still think fondly about my cousin after all this time… Hell, you never even contacted us from the day she went missing! You probably don’t even care about whether my cousin’s dead or still alive!’ Back then, Gerald had only sent Zack over to pacify the Smiths. Relaying what Gerald had told him, Zack told them