Chapter 697

Chapter 697

Just as Sylvia was fighting her thoughts, trying to come up with the best excuse for her kids, Thomas suddenly said, “The

weather is good today. Mommy and | are planning to bring you guys to play abroad.”

The word “play” intrigued the little girl as her eyes shone in excitement and she screamed, “YAY!”

Liam asked softly, “Uncle, what about your injury?”

Thomas met the boy’s questioning gaze and said with a smile, “It’s just a minor injury. It won’t affect our schedule.”

Liam then turned to his mother. “Mommy, where are we going today?”

Sylvia pursed her lips and reluctantly answered, “We still haven’t decided yet. We'll plan on the way there.”

Liam then lowered his head in silence.

Thomas then shot a glance at Sylvia. “I'll bring them downstairs first.”

Sylvia answered, “Okay. I'll be there in a moment.”

Thomas carried Isabel out of the ward. Aunt Tonya followed him.

Sylvia then said to Liam, “Liam, follow Aunt Tonya and

your sister downstairs. Mommy has to take your uncle’s medicine first. I'll meet you downstairs.”

Liam furrowed his brows.

His gut told him his mother and uncle were acting strange but he strongly believed his mother would never lie to him.

He hummed a reply and followed Aunt Tonya downstairs.

Sylvia went into the ward and grabbed all the medicines into her bag.

The plan that they discussed last night was that she would pretend to bring the kids to visit him and he would bring them down

for a spin in the garden.

After they had a stroll around the garden, she would then go down and join them, making it look more natural, especially to

Odell’s men who were assigned to watch them.

The bodyguards would only assume that they were strolling in the garden and not trying to escape the city. However, since she

arrived at the hospital, she did not spot the bodyguards anywhere. Maybe they were slacking off in some stairway, or maybe they

were hiding in the dark to avoid her detection.

Sylvia put the suspicion aside and bagged Thomas’ medicine.

Right before she left the ward, she slipped and fell on the floor.

She frowned because of the pain and when she was about to get on her feet, she spotted a white phone under the bed.

The phone was deep under the bed. Maybe it slipped off from the seam. If she had not fallen on the floor, she would not have

noticed it.

It looked familiar, seemingly belonging to Thomas.

He forgot to bring his phone? Sylva crawled under the bed and took it out. Just when she was about to put the phone into her

bag, the screen shone.

The phone received a message.

Sylvia had a glimpse of the content.

“Second Master, time’s up. If you don’t reply to me, I’ll tell Odell what you’ve done!”

The content surprised Sylvia.

‘What? Second Master? What’s this about?”

The sender’s profile picture and the way it addressed Odell looked and sounded exactly like Tara.

Sylvia instinctively tapped on the notification.

There were a dozen exchanges between the sender and Thomas, and it all happened in the last two days.

“Second Master, I’m Tara. | know you blocked me on WhatsApp, so | have to text you. | don’t mean anything else, | just want you

to save me. Odell locked me up in Lake Victoria Villa. | know you're resourceful. Can you please send someone to save me?”

Next, a few more exchanges followed a few hours after the first.

“Second Master, | know you’re Thomas Carter, the second son of the Carters.

“You said you can help me to get back to Odell’s side and told me to stage a play that night, making it look like | was chased by

some gangsters. You told me to pretend to fall and be hurt in front of Odell’s car and make him bring me to the hospital. We ran

into Sylva at the hospital

shortly after that.

“Then, you told me to wear the sapphire ring to Spencer Weiss and pretended that he kidnapped me together with

Sylvia. It made Odell choose me because of the ring.

“It might seem like you're trying to help me in those two incidents but actually, you’re trying to make Sylvia leave Odell so that

you can be with her, am | right? I’m just a tool to you.

“What do you think would happen if | tell Odell that you

set this all up? Do you think he'll let you go so easily?” Sylvia’s face turned pale after she went through all the messages. Her

hand trembled as she continued to scroll down for more.