MIDNIGHT Bride The CEO's TEMPTATION

"I just invited you to watch the drama." Simon crossed his arms and motioned for her to keep watching.

As Hazel peeked through the window, she saw that the cloth used to cover Mandy's eyes was removed.

"What, what are you doing? Who asked you to bring me here? Do you know who I am? How dare you kidnap me…" Mandy suddenly stopped as if she remembered something. The terror on her face turned to anger. "Are you working for Hazel? She wants to murder me?"

"Are you the daughter of the Denmark family?" One of the men asked.

"Of course, I am!" she said fiercely. "I'm the real one. Hazel is an impostor!"

"Then I found the right person!" the man taking the lead said coldly. "Back then, your parents ruined my family. Although your father and mother died, you can repay the debt. I will teach you a really good lesson and make you pay for your parents' sins!"

"What, what did you say?" Mandy's face immediately became livid. She thought it was Hazel who kidnapped her, but it never occurred to her that it was the enemy of the Denmark family.

Hazel looked at Simon in surprise. "Do you want your people to pretend to be the enemies of the Denmark family and then try to find out if Mandy is the real daughter of the Denmark family?"

"Who says they're my people?" Simon laughed shamelessly. "They are the enemies of the Denmark family. I just helped them to catch Mandy. Maybe you didn't realize that this woman is very concerned about her own safety."

Hazel was shocked. Were these really the enemies of the Denmark family? She turned to Simon and asked, "Who are the enemies?"

Simon frowned. "What, Pumpkin? Do you really think of yourself as a member of the Denmark family? They refuse to admit your identity, but are you in a hurry to help them deal with their enemies?"

"At least, for now, there's no way anyone can say I'm not the daughter of the Denmark family," she said in a deep voice. "Is it wrong for me to care who took away the Denmark family's daughter? After all, if it hadn't happened, I wouldn't be in trouble."

Simon chuckled, he was apparently convinced that Hazel was fooling herself. He shook his head and said quietly, "This man has nothing to do with that incident. When he could no longer compete with the Denmark family, he lost his business. After that, his parents killed themselves because they couldn't accept that they were suddenly poor. Therefore, he has a deep hate for the Denmark family. As for the enemy, who took the daughter of the Denmark family, Marcus Denmark dealt with him already. Do you really think the man, who trained a child-like Joshua, could be easily bullied?"

Hazel was very displeased. She turned to look towards the warehouse, where the masked men had begun to torture Mandy crudely. She frowned

over the situation because it wasn't what she wanted to see.

"What's the point of you trying to force her to admit that she's not the Denmark family's daughter? At most, she will confess when she is tortured. If I were her, I would deny the relationship too."

"Wait and watch, maybe she'll say something important," his eyes sparkled. "And, I'd love to see who Joshua will save if you and Mandy go missing at the same time."

She felt a bit nervous and wondered if Simon knew that she had left a mark on Ariel.

"I'm not oblivious to your little trick, but I don't want to stop you." An evil smile curved his lips. "Maybe I can make you see it with your own eyes, then you might admit who Joshua cares about, you or the Denmark family's daughter."

She clenched her fists tightly and shot Simon an angry look. The question of whether Joshua liked her or the Denmark family's daughter was something she had been avoiding for a long time. She wanted to know the answer, but she didn't dare push it.

Simon didn't give her an option, he was forcing her to face it. Hazel thought that from Joshua's point of view, who was more important. He would know that it was unlikely that she would be in any danger if she were kidnapped by Simon. However, if Mandy was kidnapped, it was more dangerous.

***

After Jaxson received the message from Ariel, he went directly to Joshua.

"Didn't Hazel go back to Denmark Residence?" Joshua was shocked and angry. "Besides, weren't their bodyguards who were secretly protecting her? Where's she now? Why didn't they do what they are paid to do?"

"Miss Crowe didn't go back but went to Quantum University. Besides, she probably didn't want us to know her whereabouts, so she purposely lost the bodyguards on the way." Jaxson hurriedly explained, "When they arrived at Quantum University, Miss Crowe had already been. According to Ariel, the person who took Miss Crowe away wore a silver mask."

Joshua's pupils suddenly shrunk. Simon King...He was really disturbed.

"Go and look for her!" Joshua said in a deep voice. "Use all our power, even if you turn the imperial capital over, you must get Hazel back!"

Jaxson went to begin searching for her and almost immediately found a clue. Joshua left Denmark Group and went to search for her, but as he was getting into his car, Fred Cohen called.

He was not in the mood to deal with him but knew that he would only continue to call, so he answered it.

Fred was angrily yelling, "Joshua, how could you do this? Do you think you can prove that Hazel is the true daughter by making Mandy disappear? I will warn you that you should not even have thought about it. I will be sure to get to the bottom of it and never let you go, you are a murderer…"

"Director Cohen," Joshua interrupted coldly. "I have something urgent, and I don't have time to listen to all your crap!"

"What do you mean?" Fred was furious. "Didn't you ask someone to kidnap Mandy?"

"Kidnap, Mandy?" Joshua frowned. "If I wanted to kidnap her, why should I have waited and leave it to you to discover?"

Fred was shocked but continued yelling, "Mandy was kidnapped. If you didn't do it, you must help me find her to prove your innocence!"

"Director Cohen," Joshua's eyes narrowed, "if you want to find her, you can call the police. I'm not your personal policeman. I can't help you!"

After that, he hung up and drove to the outskirts of town. Simon deliberately did not try to conceal his whereabouts.

In the warehouse, the masked men did not show Mandy any mercy. She was really frightened and believed that they were not thereby Hazel's request, they really were the enemies of the Denmark family.

She wondered if she should deny being the Denmark family's daughter. After all, they were only targeting the Denmark family, and if she were not the daughter, they would surely let her go and maybe even help her to kill Hazel.