Dangerous Love: You Are My One and Only Bride novel Chapter 1827

At six in the morning, a string of frenzied ringing startled Arianne out of her sleep. This was not her usual time to wake up, and she did not intend to start now.

She jostled Mark, signaling him to help her get it. The man groggily obeyed and stood up from his bed, grabbing her phone and taking a glance on the caller’s name before passing it to Arianne. “Your phone; it’s Melanie. You pick it up.”

Arianne placed the phone by her ear blearily. “Mmm, helloww? Melanie? Why the early call?”

All the way from the other side of the phone, Melanie’s voice was dangerously light and evidently shaking, “A-Arianne… T-Teo… He… He’s been abducted… The m-media’s already on it… D-Don’t you know yet?”

The fog of sleep around Arianne was immediately dispelled. “What did you just say?! W-What happened?!?!”

Mark was so shocked, his plan to return to his slumber was instantly thwarted, and in response, he rolled on his back to express protest.

Arianne willed herself to recover her composure before descending from their bed as lightly as she could and went into the bathroom. She asked only after shutting the door, “Melanie, what exactly happened? Wasn’t he just fine yesterday or something? How did he suddenly get abducted like that?”

“What are you saying, Melanie…?” Arianne interjected, her body frozen. “Are you suggesting… that the man behind this… might be Mark?”

Melanie inhaled a sharp breath from the other end of the line. “Arianne, I don’t want to, I really don’t! But I can’t completely suspend my suspicion either! It’s just possible, isn’t it? This abduction… reeks of personal enmity. It’s riddled with suspicions. Why didn’t the kidnappers target easier prey like kids, who would throw up the least resistance? Why a grown-up like Teo, when the risk runs high? There’s only one reason: there is a vested vendetta against Teo!

“I’ve suspected Alejandro, too, but it’s become known fact that there is nothing going on between Teo and I. The misunderstanding from before has long been resolved, which bereft Alejandro from any reason to do this. E-Either way, Arianne, I urge you to be more attentive than usual. If my conjecture is right, then you know what’s right… Teo, God save him—he was supposed to return overseas today, but now….”