Molly left her hospitalized mother in the care of the ever-reliable Anya and took off.

When Chad arrived to visit his mother, he found Anya there. "Anya, where's your aunt?" he asked.

"She's gone to pick a fight," Anya replied nonchalantly.

Officer Chad: "..."

He glanced at his mother lying in the hospital bed, thought about Molly's fiery temperament, and muttered to himself, "Damn it! She's out of control again!" Without wasting a second, he rushed out of the hospital.

By the time Chad arrived at the Thompsons' house, it was pitch dark, and the front door had been ripped off its hinges.

Chad inspected the doorway. It was clear that the door had been violently removed.

Inside, the place was a wreck. The flat-screen TV lay shattered on the floor, glass from the door was scattered everywhere, and there were splashes of blood on the ground. Chad knew this kind of chaos all too well. If anyone could create such a mess, it was his sister.

It seemed this time, Molly was genuinely furious.

But strangely, no one was home.

Chad knocked on the door of the only neighbor to ask for information.

Despite his persistent knocking, no one answered.

"Open up, police," Chad called out.

After seeing Chad's badge through the peephole, the occupant cautiously opened the door a crack. Chad frowned, "Where are the people from across the street?"

The man, who lived there with his family, stuttered nervously, "I... we... we were out... I don't know." Chad could see this guy was scared out of his wits.

"If you don't cooperate with the police, you'll have to come down to the station with me," Chad warned. The man continued to deny any knowledge.

Chad took out his phone and showed the man a picture of Jade on his lock screen. "Have you seen her?" The man's eyes widened in fear. "No, I haven't seen her."

how to disrupt police investigations.

no other choice,

grabbed the man, pinning him against the wall. "You think by keeping quiet, you and your family will be safe? If they come back, you'll

until it split open. They scared the Thompsons so much they were crying. Then they went

But if we have to break it down and find someone inside,

I had no choice but to open the door. She warned me that if we called the police, they wouldn't spare my family. I could hear Mrs. Thompson's cries, which had gone hoarse. I was...

"Where did they

bag, and Mrs. Thompson was nowhere to be seen. And there was blood on their

him go. "Do you

leaning on the door handle for

my sister," Chad

face went pale- the sister of a cop

had to clean up after

time Chad left, it was already past

tried calling Molly, but her phone was

remembered something the neighbor had said- Molly was with

Leo, who were usually inseparable, were not together

Chad immediately called Leo.

the abandoned construction site, overrun with dry grass, not even the

low and the wind was biting. It

led a group of burly

Thompsons running for their

the cold and too scared to lift their heads. "Want to call your grandparents

was wrong. I'll apologize, I was wrong." Juliana's face was swollen, and a few of her

hair in disarray and her face bruised, she knelt before

stood up and gave her orders to the men behind her. "Go, get the 'meal' I prepared. Let them

pinching his nose brought out a bag of feces and placed it in front of Juliana, Walter, and

up at Molly.

foul mouth; you must eat a lot of this

held his nose and kept his

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