Don’t Fall for the Billionaire Lover novel Chapter 823

She'd been quietly keeping tabs on the case from the start. The word was that Claire's kidnappers were Jeffery's sworn enemies. They weren't after money. Nope, this was a vendetta, and they gave Jeffery just a week to find her. If he failed, they'd kill her.

Jeffery scrambled, pulling every string he could, both on the right and wrong side of the law. Finally, they tracked Claire down to a remote cabin deep in the mountains. With a lot of help, they managed to rescue her. Out of the seven kidnappers, six were shot dead on the spot, and one was left barely hanging on.

But Claire's partner, Paul White, hadn't been so lucky. He'd been dead for a while, his head brutally severed with a sword—a truly horrific sight. The one kidnapper who survived spilled the beans on what went down.

Turns out, Claire and Paul had been held in separate rooms next to each other. The kidnappers made Paul cook for them, knowing his background as an actor, and even forced him to perform to keep them entertained. Then, these lowlifes turned their ugly intentions towards Claire.

Paul fought with everything he had, but they nearly beat him to death. Paul, known for his striking looks that even outshone many women, caught their twisted interest too. They threatened him, claiming they'd spare Claire if he complied. Reluctantly, Paul agreed to their demands, enduring everything to protect her.

Their orders were to kill both, but when they saw Claire, they had other vile ideas. Just as they were about to act on them, the rescue team burst in. Claire was saved, but Paul was gone. His body was found two days later, his head taken by wild animals. Claire personally took what was left of him to be cremated.

The whole ordeal was kept under wraps. Ruby found out because the detective captain on the case was an old friend of her mentor, and she overheard them talking about it during a night out. Her heart went out to Claire, once the shining star of Eldridge City. Yet, one mystery lingered: while it was clear Jeffery's enemy orchestrated the kidnapping and murder, the true mastermind behind it all was never revealed by the media or anyone else.