As the situation unfolded, a growing crowd of curious onlookers, comprised mainly of community residents, began to gather. Ariana’s anxiety swelled, and she didn’t mince words. She confronted the property manager directly, her voice laced with urgency.

“What’s the meaning of pressing issues? Valuables have vanished from my house! If you continue obstructing access to the surveillance footage, I’ll be left with no recourse but to summon the authorities and let them take it from here.”

Then, she feigned dialing the police.

Quickly, the property manager interceded, “Wait, hold on. It’s not that we’re barring you from the surveillance footage. The stark truth is that our community’s surveillance system has been on the fritz for years, rendering it inaccessible.”

This revelation drew a chorus of criticism from the onlookers.

“What?

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years? What have you been doing with the hefty property fees we’ve

today, but who

gentlemen, I assure you, we’ll take immediate

the commotion continued, Ariana’s hopes

to a sliver of hope. She inquired tentatively, “Pardon me, but before my unfortunate incident, did you happen to spot a tall gentleman entering that

all along keeping an eye out for anything. During this whole time, you

spark of hope that Ariana had been holding in her heart was completely extinguished. She lowered her head and managed to utter a feeble thank you. A self-deprecating smile tugged at the corners of her mouth. She realized that she had let her longing and imagination get the

around and walked out

sense of

from his work earlier in the morning, so he hadn’t seen anything. But when Ariana asked him about it, the manager had been standing right next to him, so he couldn’t

Holden was spending

sat on the bed, engrossed in looking at picture books. As he observed his daughter, Holden couldn’t

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