Owned by Mr. Lan

Chapter 7

Wang Yibo

I don’t need to reach for her to know she isn’t there. I felt her get out of bed, but I thought she was just using the restroom. I let my guard down. I became so comfortable in bed with her, loving the feeling of having someone there to warm the usually cold and unforgiving side that I didn’t think she wouldn’t return.

Furious doesn’t begin to describe what I feel, or worse, it’s nearly 9 in the morning. I never sleep in that late. Business doesn’t get done and money doesn’t get made, but right now, I don’t care about any of that.

Where. Is. Xiao Zhan.

Throwing the covers off, I swing my legs over the bed and slip on my sweatpants, barreling out of the room and down the hall.

“Well, good morning, sunshine,” Xue Yang greets, crunching on a piece of bacon. “Lulu made a wonderful breakfast —”

“I don’t give a fuck about breakfast. Where is Xiao Zhan?”

He hides a smile as he eats and that’s how I know he knows something.

Biting back my anger, I glance at Haoxuan and take a deep breath. “Can you please pull up the security footage? I need to know where she is.”

“Sure. Let me get done —”

I roar into the kitchen and startle Xuan Lu. “Now!”

“All right, Yibo. I’m going. I’m going.” He places his fork down, scrambled eggs still attached and pulls out his phone and taps then security app we have installed.

“No need for that. I know where she is.”

I run around the table and grip Xue Yang by the back of the neck. “I don’t know what games you’re playing here but I am getting fed up with them, Xue Yang. Where is she?” My entire body shakes with rage and I’m seconds away from slamming his face into the counter.

“I’ll tell you what you want to know, brother. I planned on it. You never give me a chance.”

“Because you never take the chance to tell me immediately. You like to get me angry.”

“She climbed the gate.” Haoxuan shows me his phone and I watch as Xiao Zhan, my clever little Bunny, climbs the steel without any issues.

“And this dumbass,” he points to his twin. “Let her out the door.”

My temper rolls through my shoulders and I have to take a deep breath, grinding my teeth together to keep myself from killing him.

I take a step away, my chest rising and falling in dangerous pulses. I flex my fingers, staring at my injured hand, the fresh scabs across my knuckles remind me of how Xiao Zhan took care of me last night, how she tended to my wounds and how I liked it.

I liked her attention.

“Why?” I seethe, my vision clouding as my anger rises. “Why would you let her leave?”

“Why won’t you?” he asks, not bothered by my fury. “She’s a human being, Yibo. The more you treat her like a prisoner, the more she will resent you. If anything, I helped you. She wants to have her own life too. You need to remember that. Her wants and dreams won’t go away because of you. And if you try to take them, she’ll hate you. By the look in your eyes, I don’t think you want that.” He takes a bite of his biscuit and groans in delight. “Lulu, this is fantastic. You did such an amazing job. Thank you so much.” He takes another bite of the biscuit and licks his fingers. “So good. Yibo, you want one?”

“No. I don’t want one. I want to get Xiao Zhan. I need to know she’s safe.”

“I think you should take your time. Get ready, have breakfast and then we will go. The more time you give her alone, the more it will work in your favor,” he suggests.