However, when he returned to the small farm from Serena at noon, he found a cow in the farmyard, its chest pierced by a bullet, moaning on the ground.
Lucian Sloan's nerves instantly tensed. He frantically dashed into the small villa.
But inside the villa, he found no trace of Yara Quillan.
'Gone?'
Lucian Sloan rushed out of the villa and ran to the neighbors' house. The farmer's wife and several children were huddled fearfully under a table, while the farmer himself was unconscious.
Lucian Sloan called the police, then asked the farmer's wife and children about Yara Quillan's whereabouts. But they were trembling so much they couldn't say anything clearly.
After Lucian Sloan filed a report with the police, he finally learned from the farmer's wife that not long after he had left, a group of vicious, masked men had rushed in and taken Yara Quillan.
Lucian Sloan didn't know if Jared Monroe was behind it, but now, he was truly terrified.
