The Retired CEO's Guide To Being Spoiled-Chapter 274: Intercepted in the Garage

Meanwhile, outside the room, Helen Lloyd and Colin Grant managed to intercept the two individuals right at the door. Helen and Colin had deliberately allowed the intruders to approach Ethan Caldwell’s room before appearing with their trusted bodyguards. They swiftly subdued the targets and escorted them into the elevator, heading straight down to the private garage area.

At this moment, another person was already lying motionless in their private garage. This woman had been knocked unconscious beforehand and carelessly thrown onto the cold concrete floor, completely oblivious to everything happening around her. The group that Colin Grant and Helen Lloyd had just subdued and brought down consisted of a man and a woman. The man had been knocked out cold by the bodyguards on the spot, while the woman appeared to have been drugged. Her eyes were glazed over, lacking any real consciousness, and her body was so limp that she had to lean entirely on a bodyguard just to remain standing. This drugged woman had a figure identical to the unconscious fake lying on the floor, and even the dress on her body and her hairstyle were exact replicas.

Looking at the two unconscious individuals discarded on the dirty floor, and then turning his gaze to the young woman whom the bodyguards were carefully helping into the car seat to rest, Colin Grant frowned deeply. He clicked his tongue, tapped his fingers against the hood of the car, and looked at Helen Lloyd to ask: "What do we do next? We cannot just keep them locked up in this garage forever."

Helen Lloyd pursed her lips, her expression clearly revealing her dilemma. She had quickly sent a text message to report the current situation to Julian Sterling, but she had no idea how things were going on Julian’s end. Her phone screen remained dark and silent, and the message was temporarily left unanswered.

Everything was unfolding far differently from their original plan. According to the prior calculations made by Julian Sterling and Helen Lloyd, today’s charade was very likely a trap actively set by the woman named Thea Lockwood, creating a misunderstanding to ensnare Ethan Caldwell. Helen and Julian had even boldly speculated that Thea Lockwood herself was the spy, a hidden card secretly planted by Harrison Thornton’s rivals to cause sabotage from within.

However, human calculations could never outmatch the will of heaven. 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖

Unexpectedly, right after Helen and the bodyguards had secretly escorted Ethan Caldwell into the room, they caught a girl stealthily approaching the area. That intruder was clearly not Thea Lockwood, but from her dressing style, the dress, the shoes, and even the silhouette of her back, she was disguised to look remarkably similar to Thea.

Helen Lloyd had always been a sharp and observant person, she only needed a brief glance to immediately guess what kind of trick the enemies were trying to pull. Perhaps Helen and Julian had guessed wrong from the very beginning, and Thea Lockwood was actually nothing more than an innocent victim in this whole affair. The enemies had prepared a body double possessing striking similarities to Thea Lockwood to put on a performance in front of that hidden camera.

The perpetrators wanted to fabricate false evidence. After that, the culprits simply needed to wait for the right moment to turn off the camera, and then brazenly drag the real, unconscious Thea Lockwood into Ethan Caldwell’s room to complete their sinister setup.

Ultimately, the enemies’ greatest objective was to orchestrate a scandalous jealousy scene that would shock the public, aiming to smear reputations and completely destroy the relationships of everyone involved.

And as it turned out, everything happened exactly as Helen Lloyd had predicted. Not long after the imposter made her appearance, the group responsible for transporting the real Thea Lockwood also revealed themselves in the hallway area.

Fortunately, at that time, Helen Lloyd and Colin Grant had acted with utmost caution, remaining carefully hidden in a dark corner to observe the situation instead of rushing to leave. If Helen and Colin had not intervened in time to stop them, the entire plan to protect Ethan Caldwell would have been completely ruined right then and there, and the consequences would have undoubtedly been unimaginable.

Facing the messy predicament before them, Helen Lloyd let out a long, exhausted sigh, looking up to ask: "Should we inform the Thornton family about this?"

Logically speaking, a matter as serious as this should have been reported to the Thornton family right from the very beginning. However, the situation at that time had been far too chaotic, and the information they received had been incredibly urgent.

Helen herself and Julian Sterling had completely lost contact with Ethan Caldwell and Colin Grant. They had no possible way to get in touch with the Thornton family. Furthermore, as previously mentioned, Helen and Julian initially harbored prejudices, firmly believing that in this incident, Thea Lockwood was the traitor who was secretly aiding the enemy. If such a betrayal had genuinely occurred, Helen and Julian would have been forced to gather sufficient, concrete evidence before they dared to speak up.

Who could truly know just how deep the actual feelings between Gemma Thornton and Thea Lockwood ran? To walk right up to someone without any rhyme or reason and loudly declare that the person they shared a bed with every night was a spy planted by the enemy, how many people would actually be willing to believe such words?

"...But even if we wanted to call them now, there is no way to establish contact."

Colin Grant added this remark from the side, leaving Helen Lloyd with no choice but to sigh once again.

Under normal circumstances, they had no business relations with Harrison Thornton whatsoever, so they did not possess any contact information for the man or his close assistants. Even though there was a verified social media account, who knew who actually managed that profile?

While the two of them were still frowning in deep thought, standing in the middle of the desolate parking lot without knowing how to perfectly resolve this tangled mess, a bodyguard strode over to them: "Helen, the young woman in the car has woken up, but her condition does not look very good. Her consciousness is still quite hazy."

Upon hearing the report that Thea Lockwood had groggily awakened, Helen Lloyd hastily turned around. She instructed Colin Grant to stay right where he was and wait for her, while Helen herself walked quickly toward the car parked not too far away to see Thea.