The Life of A Billionaire’s Wife
Chapter 59

Chapter 59 Planning to Escape

Those men would definitely discover what she was up to whenever shehad any plans or thoughts to escape.

When she had tried to escape the first time, she was grabbed by herhair and given a slap on her face. The men had made two shots beforeher feet and warned her in broken English, “If you dare to try to makeanother escape, you will take a bullet in your heart.”

As the men were extremely skillful in their marksmanship, Veronica'sfew escape attempts had failed, which left her with no choice but toobediently follow them as she waited for a more suitable opportunityto rise.

After all, she could never outrun a bullet no matter how fast she wasand she had no plans to die either!

Since Veronica didn’t seem like a simple woman, Yvonne was aware thatthey would continue to be held captive if she refused to say anything.Therefore, as she sat on the floor, she replied in desperation, “The menare mercenaries. I had offended their boss, so they are now doingeverything they can to capture me.”

As she spoke, Veronica stood at one side and carefully observedYvonne's facial expression since her gut feeling was telling her thatYvonne was lying.

However, she didn't press on the matter as she knew that Yvonne wasunwilling to tell the truth.

“The cruise ship has started to sail. This room is pretty much sealed up,so we won't be able to escape.” The door of the room could only beopened from outside and there wasn't a handle inside the room, whatmore a keyhole.

Veronica's gaze rested on the small window that could only fit twoheads; no grown adult could pass through the window.

“The ship is heading toward Castron. It's their territory over there. If weare unable to escape now, we definitely won't be able to do so once wearrive at Castron.” Yvonne sat in the corner, leaning against the wall andlooking at Veronica with a calm gaze.

Yvonne's delicate features made her seem stunning even without anymakeup on and she exuded an air of coldness and indifference.Although she had been kidnapped, there wasn't even a shred of flusteron her expression.

Has the woman really been kidnapped? Veronica had a feeling thatYvonne took her as a fool.

However, it was apparent that Yvonne was clear about the identities ofthe kidnappers, so Veronica chose not to initiate a fight with her sinceshe still knew some valuable information.

"Is the ship going to make a stop anywhere along the way?" Veronicaasked.

“It will head straight to Castron.”

“Head straight to Castron? You have boarded the ship before this?”“No, but I heard them saying it,” Yvonne explained.

Veronica massaged her temples and mumbled, “A plane travels 40times faster than a cruise ship. It takes 12 hours to travel from Destor toCastron by plane, so it will take about... 20 days by cruise.”

Three days had passed since she had been kidnapped. As she waswearing a special wiretap on her wrist, Cody must have known hersituation.

However, nobody had come to her rescue up until now.

There were only two possibilities that could explain that—firstly, Codywas in some life-threatening danger or secondly, he had chosen tobetray her! No matter what the truth was, the situation had leftVeronica with no other choice but to save herself!

Therefore, in the following few days, the two of them were on their bestbehaviors to lower the guard of the mercenaries. They were sosuccessful to the point that the men were willing to untie their ropesand allow them to move freely in a room with an attached bathroom;they even gave the two girls a few books to pass the time.

Soon, one week had passed. Veronica would eat on time on a dailybasis and make no fuss, which gave the impression that she wasunbelievably well-behaved.

Finally, even Yvonne couldn't suppress the urge to ask the womanbefore her, “They have now lowered their guard. Aren“t you planning toescape?”

As there were two beds in the room, both of them were placed againstthe wall and each one took a bed

Veronica, who was languidly lying on the bed on her side, raised hereyes to look at Yvonne, who was sitting on the bed opposite hers. Shewas eating sunflower seeds and spat out the shells of the seeds as sheresponded, “Why should I escape? When we are obedient, they notonly untie our ropes and even provide us with fruits and books. Onlyidiots would resist that.”

Of course she wanted to escape, but ever since the ship had startedsailing, they were surrounded by nothing but the ocean and jumpinginto the vast sea would be suicidal.

Besides, even if she was able to steal a lifeboat, she would make a hugecommotion and it would attract the attention of the mercenaries.

The moment the boat landed on the surface of the sea, she wouldbecome a 'life target’ and the mercenaries could easily shoot her in thehead.

Therefore, rather than struggling now, it would be better to search forthe right opportunity to escape once they have disembarked from theship.

Nonetheless, one afternoon, when Veronica was lying on the bedreading a book, she noticed that the brightness in the room hadgradually weakened. She stopped cracking the sunflower seed openand sank into a deep thought.

They had departed from the port and traveled south all the way towardCastron.

Their room was located at the western part of the ship, so the eveningsunlight would pour into their window on time every evening. However,this day was different. When she looked outside the window, shecouldn't see the sunset.

“Is it going to rain? Why can't we see the sunset today?” Yvonne, whowas sitting opposite her, mumbled a question

Veronica instantly felt that something was not right, so she moved thetable to the window and stepped on top of it. Then, she poked herhead out of the window and saw the evening sunlight on the otherside!

“What's wrong?” Yvonne got out of bed and pulled Vanessa down thetable before she herself stepped on the table to stick her head out ofthe window as well.

"Didn't you say that the ship will sail straight to Castron without makinga stop anywhere?” Veronica questioned, coldly staring at Yvonne whilestanding in the middle of the room.

“Maybe... I've heard it wrong?” Yvonne was puzzled as well. “I heardthem saying that the ship will head straight to Castron when we wereboarding the ship.”

Upon hearing that, Veronica fell silent and turned to lie on her bedwhile sinking into deep thoughts again.

Yvonne, who took in her reaction, tried to gauge her thoughts. “Are yougoing to escape?”

It was undeniable that Yvonne was a clever woman—at least she wasway more intelligent than Tiffany.

Veronica ignored Yvonne, turning to the other side with her back facingYvonne as she closed her eyes to rest.

“You have to bring me along when you escape. Otherwise, I'll snitch,”Yvonne threatened.

When Veronica heard that, the rage that she had been suppressinginstantly flared up. She directly sat up on her bed, walked up to Yvonneand grabbed her by her collar. “Just tell me if you want to die! I willchop you into pieces and throw them into the ocean so that you cansave some money since you won't be needing an urn or a casket!”“W-Who wants to die? I don't want to die, which is why I'm asking youto take me along with you.”

Yvonne's cold and distant temperament instantly vanished and herexpression sank as she looked at Veronica gloomily.

“I'm not your parents and not related to you either, so why should Isave you?”

“I saved you as well that day.”

"You—" Veronica was rendered speechless.

Although Yvonne's act of saving her that day had indirectly caused herto fall into the hands of the mercenaries, it was still an act that was bornout of kindness.

Therefore, Veronica couldn't bear to leave her alone here.

“Okay.” She released her grip angrily and turned to her bed. Then, shesat down and started to think about their escape plan.

At this moment, Yvonne walked over and gave Veronica a gold,spherical, openwork pendant, which she had been wearing all the time.“Please keep this pendant as a souvenir; a little something to rememberour encounter, I suppose.”

Veronica took a glance at the spherical pendant. There was a brilliantdiamond within the sphere, and after taking a closer look at it, shefound the word “Yvonne’ engraved on it.

It was a plain-looking but extremely valuable pendant.