Goodbye, Ex-husband! I’m Pregnant with Your Uncle’s Child!
Chapter 173: Hostage-taking

Chapter 173: Chapter 173: Hostage-taking

"Boss, Miss Land has left, and our people have gone to pick her up," Jasper Winters pressed the elevator button, respectfully saying, "Our people have already sealed off the exits Moore might use to leave."

The elevator doors opened, and the bodyguard pushed the wheelchair into the elevator, with Jasper following.

Actually, Jasper didn’t agree with James Thompson’s decision to come here while he hadn’t recovered, not knowing what might happen.

Because Moore had been on high alert, reorganizing his power recently, they had no choice but to strike first.

Meanwhile.

Moore, impersonating James Thompson, received the news that his cover had been blown.

Moore, with a gloomy expression, prepared to leave but was intercepted by Chloe Sullivan, "Brother Thompson, Uncle Thompson is looking for you."

Just as he reached out to push the woman in front of him away, he heard Julia Land’s voice coming through the Bluetooth in his left ear.

After he listened, he slowly curled his lips into a cold, mocking smile.

James Thompson was still alive.

Good. Now he finally understood why his power had been so easily overthrown.

Moore leaned closer to Chloe, "Let’s go to the lounge and talk, shall we? Eleanor, let me hold her."

Chloe, with ’James Thompson’ so close, blushed slightly, and when she heard him ask to hold Eleanor Thompson, happily handed the child to him.

Moore, with a smile, reached out to take the baby and looped his arm around Chloe’s waist, "Let’s go to the lounge. Can you find a way to invite Julia Land to the lounge without attracting attention?"

At this time, Chloe was stunned. Brother Thompson was actually holding her waist?

Celeste Lewis and the others watched as Julia Land left, and then saw James Thompson being intimate with Chloe Sullivan, "....."

They were shocked. James Thompson had always been the man that socialites in their circle chased after. Was he really such scum in private?

Chloe nodded, "I’ll call someone to take Julia Land to the lounge."

She took out her phone and made a call to Yan Wenlin.

On the other side, Julia Land, following the person sent by James Thompson, had already reached the ground floor in the elevator.

Just as she got to the ground floor, she received a call from Sophia Hart.

She answered.

However, the person speaking on the phone was not Sophia Hart but Yan Wenlin.

Yan Wenlin coldly said, "Miss Land, something seems off with Miss Hart. A man is helping her into lounge number 02 on the sixth floor, and her phone just happened to fall in the elevator where I saw it."

Julia Land turned around to press the elevator button.

The bodyguard, puzzled, asked for details.

"My friend Sophia Hart was taken to lounge number 02 on the sixth floor. Can you confirm this?"

Julia Land didn’t know if Yan Wenlin was telling the truth, but Sophia Hart’s phone was indeed with her.

The bodyguard connected with the others to confirm the situation.

"The surveillance shows a lady was taken into lounge number 02 on the sixth floor by a man, we are dispatching someone for the rescue."

The bodyguard relayed the situation to Julia Land.

Elsewhere, as Moore, who had his arm around Chloe, left, he listened in on the conversation between Julia Land and the bodyguard through the Bluetooth earpiece, smiling gently.

He was worried something unexpected might happen today, so he had specially put a bug in a necklace he gave Julia Land.

From the first sentence of her conversation with the bodyguard, Moore realized that Julia Land had somehow become aware that he was not the real James Thompson.

The man chuckled quietly to himself.

She normally ordered him around so smoothly.

Completely undetected.

The person in charge of monitoring Moore saw him take Chloe and the baby into the elevator, pressing for the fifteenth floor, the direction of the top floor.

Chloe and the baby had now become hostages in his hands.

Cody Thompson, upon seeing James Thompson sitting in a wheelchair, was completely shocked. He was nearly apoplectic, such a significant matter had been kept from him!

"Dad, it’s not that I deliberately kept you in the dark, the Thompson Family has Christopher Moore’s people, and moreover, your recent maneuvers have made Christopher Moore even more convinced that I was dead, which was convenient for me to operate in the shadows."

"You forced an unknown daughter-in-law on me, and gave away the Thompson Family’s shares to some twins who’ve come out of nowhere."

James’s mouth twitched with a trace of mockery.

Cody Thompson glared at him angrily, saying seriously, "What do you mean ’come out of nowhere’? They are your children from now on!"

James arched an eyebrow, "Sorry, my children can only be born to a wife that I recognize, I’ve never slept with Chloe Sullivan, and she can’t have my children."

Just as the father and son’s argument was getting heated, Jasper Winters knocked and entered. He reported, "All of today’s honored guests have been arranged to leave, and hotel staff have also evacuated."

The hotel had been reserved today for a hundredth-day celebration, aside from the VIPs and hotel staff, no other guests were accommodated, which indeed made things easier for James.

"The lady of the house has been taken to the resting room 02 on the sixth floor, and someone has already been sent to rescue her; Miss Land has also gone to the sixth floor."

"Christopher Moore has taken Miss Sullivan and Eleanor Thompson in the elevator to the fifteenth floor."

As Jasper’s calm words fell,

Cody stood up excitedly, "Eleanor has been taken hostage? James, you have to think of a way to save her!"

James was not in a hurry at all, neither Eleanor nor Chloe made any difference to him.

Seeing the expression on James’s face, Cody realized he was planning to give up on Chloe and Eleanor.

"James! You can’t let anything happen to Eleanor! The twins are the only bloodline of Ann left in this world!"

James’s face instantly darkened at Cody’s words.

Jasper held his breath as well.

Miss Ann had been dead for many years, and now, suddenly, a pair of twins had emerged...

"We never expected Ann to have frozen embryos, her nurse was Madeline’s mother, and Chloe overheard the argument between Madeline and her mom, knowing she herself was being used as a surrogate, now the most important thing is to save Eleanor."

James’s eyes were blood red, almost grinding his teeth, "They are Ann’s disgrace! Dad, you are so foolish! How could you let them be born!"

This was a disgrace.

If he had known, he would never have let the twins be born!

Cody slowly said, "James, you have already sent off your sister and nephew, do you want to send off Ann’s only bloodline once again?"

"Disgrace? Aren’t they Ann’s bloodline?"

James’s hand clenched the wheelchair armrest tightly.

Jasper received a call from the monitor with Christopher Moore’s personnel, his face changed, "BOSS, something’s happened, Christopher Moore has taken Miss Land hostage."

Nobody had expected Christopher Moore to be able to calculate the elevator’s travel time so precisely.

And he must have known through other means when Julia Land was entering the elevator.

Initially, he pressed for the fifteenth floor, but when the elevator reached the fifth, he pressed for the seventh floor, canceling the one to the fifteenth, then exited on the seventh and pressed for a descending elevator, performing a back-and-forth operation.

The monitoring staff had been watching his floor changes closely.

Chloe had also found ’James’s’ elevator pressing strange, but ’James’ had laughed, "Didn’t you notice Eleanor’s curiosity? I’m showing her around."

Chloe smiled happily, men spoiling their daughters was a delight for her.

Until Christopher Moore appeared on the sixth floor, as Julia and her group also stepped out from the neighboring elevator, he pushed Chloe to a bodyguard beside Julia.

Christopher Moore quickly wrapped his arm around Julia’s neck, pressing a blade to her throat.

All these actions had been precisely calculated.

Chloe watched the situation unfold in shock.

What was happening?

How had James taken Julia hostage?

When she saw ’James’ still holding Eleanor in one arm, "Brother Thompson, hand Eleanor to me."

Christopher Moore coldly glanced at Chloe; he took Julia hostage once again into the elevator, this time heading to the top floor.

Julia tilted her head back, trying to keep the blade away from her neck.