Chapter 178

ARABELLA POV

“What are you going to do now?” Lily asked me. “Do you have any plans on how to tackle this?”

I paused my restless pacing and turned to her. “I’m burnt out, Lily. I don’t know what to do! I’ve tried to think of every possible thing but nothing. Rhys isn’t even helping matters. He thinks Mia is innocent simply because she hasn’t left the house in days!”

“And the kidnappers want you to leave?”

“Yes! They clearly said no money, that I should just leave. Who else would not want money and ask me to leave?”

She cocked her head at me as both of our mind went to Mia. She was the only sworn enemy that I had that would dare though my children and go Scot free. Thinking about it made by blood boil. I wanted to grab her hair and force her head into a hot oven…

“Okay, you’re making that face again, “ Lily said. “We just need to think about what to do next, Arabella. I know this must come as a shock…”

“It’s quite the shock, Lily.”

“But we have better things to do like waiting for the k