Chapter 86

Joseph heard a woman’s piercing cries and noticed the crowd starting to panic. The carousel quickly stopped because of the loud commotion. Joseph hurried to the gate to meet Quinlyn and held her securely by his side.

At this point, the woman was wailing loudly, and the staff quickly came over to find out what was wrong.

“Joseph, what’s going on?” Quinlyn asked, still not knowing what had happened.

“Her child is missing,” Joseph explained with a sigh. “In large amusement parks like this, if parents aren’t attentive, their kids can easily get lost.”

Some kids eventually found their way back, but most just disappeared.

Quinlyn, hearing this, looked at the woman on the ground, thought for a moment, and walked over to ask. “What does your child look like?”

A crowd gathered to watch, but everyone was in a rush, focused on their own kids, and unwilling to get involved.

“Yes, ma’am, crying won’t help. Why don’t you provide some clues so we can find your child faster,” a staff member kept urging her, thinking she was too fragile to handle things. “If you keep this up, we’ll have to take you to the police station.”

Two security guards’s patience wore thin and reached out to help the woman up to maintain order. As soon as they moved, a card fell out of her pocket.

Quinlyn bent down to pick it up and turned it over to see the words [Greenhill Psychiatric Hospital, Room 302, Janet Suarez] written on it.

“Wait a minute, she’s a patient,” Joseph said, furrowing his brow as he followed behind and stopped the security guard’s rough actions.

“A mental patient who managed to sneak out?” The guard saw the card and sighed in relief, “I guess the story about losing a kid was just made up.” With that, they decided to contact the hospital to come and get her.

But before they could make the call, a young voice spoke up. “She’s not making it up. She has a kid.” Quinlyn grabbed Janet’s hand to show everyone her fingernails.

saw stickers on Janet’s nails, with cartoon designs. They were definitely a child’s playthings.

issues, and we can’t help her. We should just let her talk to the police,”

control herself, finding a child was like a fairy tale. They gave her sympathetic

could be in danger. We have to find them quickly,” Quinlyn insisted. “Let

It was only then they gave in, leading the way inside. “Look, here’s the carousel camera. There are so many people; you’re on

of people in and out during the holidays, even if they found Janet’s trace, her kid would be

and sat down at the computer to

the security guard had been there, he’d have noticed she was watching it in reverse at super fast quadruple speed.

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only recognized Janet when the screen paused. “She’s definitely holding a little boy, but with the hoodie he’s wearing, it’s hard to identify him”

three or four boys in the same hoodie, and all the earlier footage conveniently missed the kid’s face.

detective team might have a profiler who can sketch

Janet’s clothes and shook her head. “That’s too slow,” she said and turned to Janet, speaking calmly. “Your child is in danger. If you don’t want anything to happen to him,

sat in the chair, dazed by the question, and then suddenly her

locked eyes with her, intense and steady. “Tell me what

and actually started recalling. “Quinton has dimples, eyebrows most like mine, and his

story, Quinlyn quickly grabbed the security registration book by her side and began to sketch with a pen. By the time Janet finished recalling, a portrait was completed. “Is this him?” Quinlyn showed her the sketch.

moment, and then suddenly tears welled up in her eyes as she clutched the sketch to her chest. “Oh, my little boy, mommy’s here,” she cried.

photo of it, and uploaded it to the computer. Then, she hacked into the amusement park’s surveillance

the familiar art style, he realized it was

that just from seeing it once,

spotted the boy’s trail near the back exit of the amusement park. “He was taken,” she

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