Pampered by my three brothers: the return of the neglected heiress

Chapter 704: Lead

"Any news? I couldn't contact you the whole time." Atlas stood in the middle of his room, holding his phone to his ear. "What's going on?"

"Uh, nothing's going on," Hugo reassured him with a light chuckle. "My phone died earlier. I was too busy investigating."

"Found out anything useful?"

"Nope." Hugo sighed, glancing up at the ceiling of the ward. "I checked the CCTV footage of the nearby establishments, but they didn't catch anything or anyone suspicious."

"Can you send the copies to me?"

"Well, about that... you should get them soon."

"Hmm?"

Hugo smiled a bit. "I asked Penny to send them to you."

"Why would you do that?"

'Because I can't do that right now, considering I'm admitted to the hospital with a roommate who has a bounty on his head,' was what Hugo wanted to tell his first brother, but he chose not to.

After all, Atlas would worry about him because it was Atlas who asked Hugo to look into it further. If Atlas found out that Hugo almost lost his life because his investigation led him to Merrick, it would throw Atlas off his game.

"I'm broke as hell, remember?" Hugo reminded him sassily. "And Penny doesn't want to lend her laptop to me. That little sister is becoming more and more stingy. So, I just asked her to send them to you."

Atlas arched a brow upon hearing Hugo's excuse. "That's the reason?"

"Yeah."

a lot more believable excuses and lies you could come up with," Atlas called him out but didn't dwell on it. "However, whatever you're not telling me, I'm

checked them, and Penny had other people check them as well.

of Atlas's lips curled up slightly. "That's what we think, because we're looking for something that is

"Huh?"

about it once I review

his phone, deep lines appeared between

remarks in his head over and over. When he couldn't take it anymore, he checked his phone, as he had a few copies of the footage

can't sleep,"

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Atlas sat down on the couch with the laptop over the cushion on his lap. He had just received the files from Penny, just as Hugo said. He didn't waste a second and began reviewing

was nothing in the footage. They didn't catch anyone suspicious. Leaning his

whispered, zooming in on the corner of the footage where a car was parked. Atlas hurriedly checked the other files,

the files before he found another clip that caught the same blue car parked in the same spot. This time, the angle showed a bit of

was that he couldn't see the

to wait," he murmured, fast-forwarding and skipping through the

several minutes for

According to the timestamp, this happened after Allen was already sent to the

ve

a proper look

a bit grainy, he could make

curled up. He took a screenshot of the plate number and sent it to Hugo and then to Penny,

might see his message the next morning, as it was already late, so Atlas took

getting confirmation that the car had been towed and reclaimed by the owner the next day, he called someone who could

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