Chapter 77

Day 12:

There have been zero transactions?” I ask Peter.

“Zero, Sir.” He confirms, his lips thinned into a straight line.

“Has Lou called back yet?”

“No, Sir. Mrs. Whitlock and Luna both took a flight the day after she….” He pauses, looks away. “Left. And Lou found out that the flight she took went either to Chicago or Philadelphia. The authorities wouldn’t give us their CCTV footage, and your grandfather did ask the mayor to put some pressure. We still haven’t heard back from the airport authorities.”

I nod

At least she was safe.

At least she was safe.

“Call our contacts in both Chicago and Philadelphia, ask them to search for her. If they can find any reservations, any registrations under the name of Sophia Whitlock, I want to know.”

Peter nods, and then just stares at me.

Hake a breath. “What is it?”

“With all due respect, Sir. I… I don’t think she would go with Sophia Whitlock.”

Huh?

I raise my eyebrows in question

“I.. I think… I.. I believe,” he takes a deep breath as if scared for his life, “I think that she would go with the name Sophia Baker

now.”

Oh.

upon me, and I felt like I was being crushed by a thousand pounds. I nod without meeting his eye. “Ask them to

Day 17:

over the call we were on since the past twenty minutes. “She inherited it from

place and expect me to find her. Besides, London is in the UK and I have no contacts there. I’m afraid my

then silently curse under my breath. Every where I turn was a dead

for everything you’re doing, Lou. Please keep

but decided against it at the last moment. “Okay,’ she replied, and then the phone

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front of me, staring out of the window at the dark streets filling with grey clouds overhead as if there was a storm coming. Everyone went home

home hurt. Being surrounded by the ghost of her smiles and

my home. I

had forgotten was here, clears his

need to… I… I lose my words, feeling lost and

hide in his expressions reflected in his voice. “Sleep, buddy. You need the

Day on

going to

expansion of the Whitlock company, but that wasn’t the reason I was

slightest one, that I find my wife

to take off

home that day exhausted from work, and I think even the housekeepers were surprised looking at me. stopped coming home. I came once a week, grabbed

Thad

showered in the bath my grandfather thankfully had gotten made a few years ago when he worked all day

just couldn’t

few days ago.” One of the housekeepers said, and it seemed like she was sweating just by talking to me. I’m not that intolerable

it to

I had

по

of clothes into a suitcase and le get away from here, but

packing to reveal a blue square

one that

ago.

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