The Kidnapped Bride

Meanwhile, back in the Johnson mansion. 

It was already morning when Jennifer felt her eyes getting heavier with the time. 

Her heart was already unsettled, as she could sense the roof above her face. 'What happened to me?' 

She wasn't sure herself but then, rotating her head, she came across nothing but emptiness beside her bed. 

There was no figure, which she usually watched in the morning. 'He isn't here..where did he go away then?' 

Jennifer was puzzled as she brought her hands and rubbed her eyes. A yawn escaped her lips when she got up from her bed to look outside the window. The sun already rose high in the sky, making her understand that it was already late for her to get up. 

But then, her eyes traveled to see the medicines that lay beside her bed. 

Seeing the tablets only confused her to no extent as she recalled last night's events. "I and Javier fought because of Emily…" 

She can never get over the fact that his father actually initiated the sexual interaction between Emily and Javier. The words were rolling through her mind like a reel that was almost difficult for her to remove. 

Biting her lower lip, just when she was staring at her medicines, she could feel the movement. 

Automatically, her head was lifted to see straight on the terrace outside. A frown curved over her face when her eyes focused outside the window to see a hand nearby the railings. 

'Is someone trying to climb up through the back area?' knowing this possibility, Jennifer removed the blanket to run outside of the room to look down off the railings, finding no one else but Austin trying to climb up. "Austin!" 

"C-cmon Jennifer...give me your hand.." he mumbled to which she instantly lowered her hand, with the help of which, he kept his leg on stone and got up from the place. Coming to her terrace, he took a deep breath before she took his hand to make him come inside the room. 

"W-why the hell have even shown up here?" she asked, with much annoyance in her voice before Jennifer rushed towards the door of the front, and locked it from the inside. 

"I was worried. We haven't met for days, and neither did you contact me." 

Austin answered while noting her worrisome actions, "I feel that my cover won't work for long. This name as that of Austin Brown...can only work as my real identity but my past won't be hidden much long.."

Hearing this, Jennifer, who just now closed the curtains of the window, could feel her mouth drying up, "W-why so? Does anyone have any hints?" 

In response, Austin nodded his head vigrously, "I think Johnson has an idea about my identity. That Charles is actually staying vary of me. Also, they rarely contact me during his meetings nowadays." 

Jenifer could feel her heart thumping too loudly inside her chest. 

Subconsciously, her hands traveled there to the chest to clutch it tightly with her face crumbling down, "So...they have actually done a background search on you." 

"They surely have done, especially your husband. He has been getting some vibes from me, so to be careful, he did. Successfully our people helped me to just keep getting in the shadows." 

Why was Jennifer not shocked about this? Why did she feel not surprised by this piece of information?

Knowing that Johnsons don't trust anyone so easily, she already expected much out of them, "If they are getting that kind of vibes from you, it is better for you to leave instantly. Get out of the state before…" 

"I'm not going anywhere until I get you out of this place. It is either the Lucas state or...abroad." His sharp reply made Jennifer's lips turn into a straight line, "Why are you being so stubborn Austin?! You already know that Javier is my husband. I can't leave him to go anywhere else…" 

"He must be your husband according to the laws of this state but outside? I'm sorry but I will have to remind you that your marriage isn't applicable to the outer world."

"Have you signed the international marriage certificate which makes your marriage valid everywhere?" 

In return, Jennifer shook her head with a little shyness. That was the first time she was listening to the name of any certificate like this. 

'So..here is another marriage certificate that needs to be actually signed before our marriage is valid everywhere?' she was shocked, and the thought to bring this topic up with Javier arose in her mind. 

But at the same time, the major point struck her head. 

"S...so..this means that….if..I go back to Lucas...can he still marry me?" she asked with the uncertainty written all over her face when, Austin nodded his head, "The marriage, which is registered before the internationally, will be considered valid. Others will automatically be invalid… no matter if you have married that person before.." His words were no less then any bomb dropped over her forehead out of nowhere.

Tugging his hands into his pocket, Austin stared at her half-shocked and surprised face with his narrowed eyes, "That is why I told you, Lucas has the chance to marry you, even now. Jennifer...there isn't one problem. If you think everything is settled in Lucas state, then you are wrong there as well.." 

Hearing this, Jennifer lifted her face to look at his, finding it more serious than before, "What happened there?" 

Instead of answering her, Austin first of all, made her sit on the bed which she did peacefully. 

Taking a seat beside her, he said, "There is another person whom we have or face. Although, we don't know if he is our enemy or friend but…. There is a risk, Jennifer.." 

Jennifer gulped the saliva present in her mouth to ask with her blinked eyes, "Who is this risk then?" 

"James...James Smith." 

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