Chapter 317

“Bad news, boss. The reporters are coming. We have to leave here as soon as possible.”

Corbin rushed over.

“Let’s go.” Maurice grabbed Eliana’s hand.

“I’m not going anywhere with you!” Eliana refused.

How ridiculous! If Maurice went to her home now, he would find out about the children.

Maurice didn’t say anything more and just dragged Eliana towards the entrance.

Maurice’s silver Maybach was at the gate of the Civil Affairs Bureau. Maurice stuffed Eliana into the

backseat of the car without difficulty.

Corbin got on the driver’s seat and immediately gunned the engine. He stepped on the gas and drove

away as Maurice and Eliana buckled up in the backseat.

Eliana looked out the window and observed the surrounding scenery. She noticed that they weren’t

headed for her home, and she breathed a sigh of relief.

It seemed that Maurice hadn’t suspected about the children yet.

But Eliana didn’t want to be complacent. She took out her phone and secretly sent a message to Nana.

“Nana, I need you to do as I tell you the moment you read this message. Take the kids and go in hiding.

Maurice is likely to come and take them away.”

Nana, who was resting at home, was confused after reading Eliana’s message.

Maurice wanted to take the children away?

Why would he do that?

If there was someone who should be wanting to take the kids away from Eliana, it was Preston. Why

was Maurice suddenly in the picture?

While Nana tried to make sense of Eliana’s message, in the car, Maurice noticed what Eliana was

doing.

Who was this woman texting?

Maurice narrowed his eyes, reached out, and attempted to grab Eliana’s phone.

Eliana saw him coming and immediately turned away. The two of them started arguing.

“Give me your phone.”

“No! I won’t give you my phone even if you kill me!”

They were like children fighting over a toy.

The next second, an unfortunate thing happened. Corbin made a sharp turn, and the force caught

Eliana off guard. She lost her grip on her phone, and it went flying out the window.

“My phone!”

Eliana was so anxious that she forgot that the car was still running on the road. When she was about to

open the door to pick up her phone, Maurice pulled her back.

“What are you doing? Are you trying to get yourself killed?” he cursed in a low voice.

“Stop the car. I need to get my phone back. Please.”

Looking at her phone from which she was getting farther and farther away, Eliana felt a lump in her

throat.

“If you keep talking nonsense, I’ll throw you out of the car!”

With a gloomy face, Maurice forcefully fixed Eliana in the backseat.

“Maurice! You inconsiderate jerk!” Eliana finally lost her temper after restraining herself for so long. “If

you like living a double life and playing role-playing games, that’s your business, but did you have to

involve me? Did you think it was funny to deceive me for so long? And why do you think you can be

angry with me now?”

Maurice was stunned and looked helpless.

It was indeed his fault that he had misled Eliana by donning two identities.

“Just calm down for a minute, will you? Yes, I did lie to you by pretending to be Preston, but I don’t

have any secrets from you now. What about you? Do you have secrets that you’re hiding from me?”

Maurice looked at Eliana with burning eyes, trying to see through her.

Eliana averted her gaze and gritted her teeth.

She turned away and snapped, “Don’t change the subject.”

Maurice was a bit amused by her stubborn attitude.

“Who’s changing the subject now? Eliana, you better pray that you can keep your secrets from me for

the rest of your life. Otherwise…”

Maurice didn’t finish his sentence, but Eliana understood what he meant.

After such a fierce quarrel, the two of them were a little out of breath. They turned away from each

other and didn’t speak again for the rest of the trip.

Sitting in the driver’s seat, Corbin didn’t know whether to laugh or to cry.

The two didn’t treat him as an outsider.

Soon, they arrived at the old house of the Moran family.

“Why did you take me here, Maurice?”

With an ominous premonition in her heart, Eliana was unwilling to get out of the car.

Maurice didn’t say anything. He just grabbed her hand and dragged her out.

“What are you doing? I said I wouldn’t go into your home.”

Something was wrong.

Maurice appeared stranger now.

Eliana suddenly felt like she was being hauled into a dangerous place, somewhere Maurice would turn

into a beast and then tear her, his prey, apart.

“Welcome home, Mr. Moran. And Miss Pierce is here, too. I’ll clean up your room right away.”

When the maids saw that Maurice came in with Eliana, they hurried to clean up rooms, but Maurice

stopped them.

“No need.”

Maurice dragged Eliana all the way to the basement of the old house.

“Where on earth are you taking me? Maurice, stop!”

Eliana struggled hard, but she couldn’t break free from Maurice at all. She could only watch as he took

her downstairs.

After walking down a dark staircase, Maurice stopped by a red door.