“How would I know? In any case, it had to be a family member of yours. It was a fancy car.”

A fancy car? It must’ve been Tobias, then.

I don’t know anyone else who drives a fancy car apart from him. Or could it have been Jeremy? Oh, dream on. As if that b*stard would do anything for anyone but himself.

Skylar whipped out her phone only while making her way back home and found several missed calls from Tobias.

She then called him back only to hear an especially disgruntled voice. “You just got a new phone, but it still takes you that long to answer it?”

“I silenced it and kept it in my purse,” Skylar explained. “I’ve just checked it. Where’s my mother?”

 

Tobias sounded slightly taunting. “What’s the point in you knowing? It’s not like you want to see her.”

He’s keeping me on my toes even up till now? Skylar couldn’t take it. “I want to see her. She’s still my mother, after all, so please tell me where she is. Where have you taken her?”

 

Delighted to hear Skylar using the word “please,” Tobias gave her the hospital address.

think this through, though. She’s not

responded half-heartedly and hung up before Tobias had even

You’re heartless.

by the roadside, she took out the black card Tobias had given her and withdrew a thousand in cash. Then, she dropped by a fruit stall

her past were so vague that the young woman didn’t know

notification of a

ever met. She had only used one thousand despite having kept the card for so

basket to Haywest Hospital and obtained Miranda’s ward number from the psychiatric department’s

a young, handsome, and gentle-looking man, who

eyes seemed oddly familiar to Skylar as

You must’ve gotten the wrong room.” The man

the ward number, making

my mom’s just been

eyed the woman before him with curiosity. Why would Tobias be interested in a girl whose mother just came

in. He merely leaned against the

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