Chapter 1509 I Want “Ransom Money”, But Not From You

Once he was almost done with his meal, Seaton looked at her and placed his extra purchase of fast food in front of her on the ground. “I will remove the tape from your mouth and release your hands for the time being so that you can eat and drink. If you step out of line, I will kill you. Understand?” Aery nodded profusely. All she wanted to do now was have a good meal. Seaton wasn’t worried that she would suddenly scream aloud. There were so few inhabitants around that it was like an abandoned little village. He had gone through a lot of effort to find this place. This house originally belonged to a bachelor. The bachelor was so poor that the house had nothing but care walls. Aside from a wooden bed, there was an uneven chair and a rotten table. He only bought the fan because he could no longer stand the heat. He had given the bachelor some money as rent for a few days and told the bachelor to fool around for the next few days. He usually moved from place to place every three days in order to avoid Mark and Alejandro’s men. Once Aery’s hands were released, she hungrily wolfed down her meal. “Can… Can I have some water? Beer is fine too, I’m too thirsty!” Seaton had no intentions of letting her die of thirst, so he agreed to her request and gave her a can of beer. Aery carefully accepted it and thanked him. Her expression of gratitude piqued Seaton’s interest. “Thanking your kidnapper? Isn’t that funny?” Aery carefully looked at him. “Why… did you kidnap me? I’m not a rich heiress, and my family is only considered comfortably well-off… It’s not worth it to kidnap me. You were fiddling with my phone; were you asking my mom for ransom money?” Seaton narrowed his eyes and flashed a strange smile from the corners of his lips. “I do want ‘ransom money,’ but not from your mother. I want it from Mark and Arianne. Besides, the ransom I want isn’t money, but their lives!” Aery immediately found it difficult to swallow the food in her mouth. “Who… Who are you? If you wanted to threaten them, shouldn’t you have kidnapped their son instead? Arianne and I are embroiled in an abyss of suffering. She’s hoping for my death. You want to use me to threaten her? What a joke! Arianne and I may be half-sisters, but if you set our blood relations aside, we’re enemies! Don’t you think you’ve caught the wrong person? By the way, even if you can’t kidnap their son, you can kidnap Tiffany Lane instead. Tiffany is way more important to Arianne than I am, and she’s Mark’s best friend, Jackson’s, wife. They’re more valuable than I am! I can’t give you their lives in exchange!” Seaton found her very noisy, so he irritably replied, “Are you going to eat or not? If not, I’m going to tape your mouth shut again.” Aery immediately stopped talking and continued eating her food. She was previously too afraid to look at Seaton’s face. Now, after a few glances, he seemed more and more familiar to her. That shipwreck caused a lot of buzz, so she wasn’t completely in the dark about this. Once she compared the kidnapper to Seaton’s features, her heart began to race. She didn’t answer Helen’s call back then. If she had, she wouldn’t have been ignorant of her kidnapper’s identity. She simply wondered how Seaton had managed to escape from prison and infiltrated the capital. Despite her curiosity, she did not dare ask. Since Seaton S. Bart was the kidnapper, he wasn’t going to let her go so easily. A desperate criminal would go to any lengths. Once she had finished her meal, Seaton took the rope and began to tie her up again. She struggled. “Uh… Can I use the toilet? I need to pee. I’m not lying. I know I can’t get away, so I won’t.” Seaton eyed her for a few seconds like an eagle, then tied her hands up anyway. However, he did not tie them behind her back this time, but in front. Then, he untied the rope on her legs. “I’m coming with you. I’ll hold the rope on the other end. The toilet’s outside.”