The Woman From Hell

It was already late at night when we returned to the hospital. In the conference room. Chief Royce sat directly opposite us in silence.

I knew he had gone to the villa in the suburbs and found that those were merely an ordinary gang of crooks. Although they were able to save the children in time, there was no progress made in Munchkin's

case.

When he came back, he also learned that we had approached Alex by ourselves.

"How could you go to Alex alone, Mrs. Grant? It's too dangerous. There's a high possibility that your child is with him. If the kidnapper has the upper hand, then it'll be extremely disadvantageous to you and your family!"

I understood that he was mad, and he should be.

"Since you chose to call the police, then you should trust the police and share all information with us. You shouldn't act alone and take such risks."

"I'm sorry, Chief Royce. We had no choice but to act without permission." I sincerely apologized. "It's not that we don't trust the police, but it's because Alex's identity is truly special. In order to know more about Munchkin, we had no choice but to do so."

that we were anxious, but it was fortunate that we were

sense too. We were not messing

before, but this time, I can tell

I recounted everything that happened in the hotel, and he quickly figured out what was going

case, Munchkin is worth something to him, but we still don't know what

probably help him obtain certain benefits. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been that nervous either. We know far too few things about him. "Also, the police are also curious about one thing. Why did he appear at such a precise timing? It's almost as if he had been waiting here for you at

frowned slightly. It did feel like

any other relatives of

shook my head

with me since he was a kid. Xander and Jerome were not high-profile people either. They would drop me a reminder if they had any enemies, but they had never said anything like it. "I know all the people around Munchkin. The ones I don't know are probably those who

clues were stuck here once

is that Munchkin's

mother is Cecilia. I know Cecilia's relatives but... I don't quite

not want to bring up the past either. He would have