My Substitute CEO Bride (Nash and Hera) novel Chapter 2117

However, the reality was much more complicated than Nash had anticipated.

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At the North Territory, Nash and Theo were waiting at the airport.

"Wow!" Theo suddenly exclaimed, spilling his drink on the floor.

"Hey, you spilled it!" Nash quickly called out to Theo.

Realizing his mistake, Theo scrambled to clean it up.

"What’s up? Did you spot another pretty woman and get all distracted?" Nash asked, noticing Theo's unusual reaction. It was typical for Theo to get worked up over such things.

"What are you talking about? I saw this!" Theo hurriedly shoved his phone into Nash's face to prove his point.

"I can see it. No need to shove it so close!" Nash took the phone from Theo.

[Headline! A CEO’s solution to traffic: take to the sky!]

The headline on the phone screen caught Nash's attention.

"Impressive, right? He just called in a helicopter to escape traffic. Look at the photo. Looks like he was carrying a beautiful woman," Theo said, pointing at the photo in the report.

Nash scrolled through the report and noticed the blurry image of a woman being carried by a man. Even though the photo was unclear, the bone pendant hanging around the man's neck and the shape of the coins in his pocket were unmistakable.

“Is that Clint?” Nash wondered aloud.

“I heard nothing about him having a wife, so who is this woman?” Theo mused.

…

It was midnight in Drakonia when Nash and Theo got off the plane. Waiting for them at the airport was a luxury car.

Nash immediately used the phone he had previously contacted Clint with to call him.

It was currently the night of the day Rainie escaped. Clint's phone rang incessantly in the room. Due to his exhaustion from taking care of Rainie, he did not notice Nash's call.

The calls woke Rainie. She cautiously moved her body and noticed that the medication had worked. Her condition had improved significantly.

She tried to walk when the phone rang again.

Startled, Rainie quickly pulled out the phone and ended the call. She then looked at the still-sleeping Clint and whispered softly to herself, "Mr. Melton, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have..."