What Separates Me and You

Chapter 307 Taken Away

Lewis frowned. He briskly entered the room. It was empty, and so was the bedroom.

“How …” Gerald rubbed his eyes and hastily explained, “I’ve been keeping watch downstairs and never saw her come down!” Trembling, he lifted his eyes to look at Lewis and noticed Lewis’ ferocious glare. Gerald shuddered and said, “I … I… I’ll check the surveillance footage…

Then, Gerald darted toward the control room while dialing the hotel manager’s number.

All this fuss… Gerald couldn’t get his head around it. Josephine was already a grown-up, not a three-year-old, yet Lewis got all worked up just because she went missing for a second.

Hardington was turbulent but only where the hustle and bustle were or in remote areas. It was safe within the vicinity of his hotel.

Nevertheless, Gerald checked the surveillance footage right away. The footage showed Josephine leaving the hotel room an hour ago and heading for the elevator.

However, there was no sign of her in the elevators. Therefore, she might have taken the stairs. instead.

Gerald also checked the surveillance footage in the lobby, just in case. He was slightly relieved after discovering Josephine had never exited through the hotel lobby.

He made a copy of the footage and showed it to Lewis. Lewis simply glanced at the footage before hurling the tablet back at him and leaving the room. Gerald gathered some people to search the stairs.

This hotel was the largest property under Gerald and comprised more than thirty floors. It would take some time to search the whole premise.

Lewis started searching from the eighteenth floor and headed up while Gerald’s men searched upward from the first floor.

They searched for over an hour, leaving no garbage can unturned, but still found no signs of Josephine.

Lewis searched his way down again from the top floor to the lobby.

He rubbed his temple as he sat on the lobby sofa. Although he said nothing, Gerald was

already sweating profusely.

Gerald said softly, “Don’t worry, Chairman Alvarez. I’ve sent some men to search every single floor. We’re checking the surveillance footage too. We’ll find her, for sure.”

Lewis, his eyes closed, ignored him while he rambled on.

Seth returned to both of them sitting together in an unsettling atmosphere.

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He walked up to Lewis and asked, “What’s up? You lost her again?”

back into the sofa. He pulled out a

volumes-that little mute was missing again.

sat too. He helped himself to a cigarette from the table

them. After grasping the situation, Seth looked up at Gerald

right. Weird, isn’t it?”

any surveillance cameras in the stairway?”

as he said sheepishly, “Why would I install them

parking lot, can’t they? Have you searched the parking lot?”

“I did. Chairman Alvarez searched it once already, but I sent my men down for another round of search

lot comprised two levels;

off his cigarette. He cast a glance at Lewis and

find her?”

question triggered more intense

surveillance cameras had blindspots; their coverage wasn’t whole. It would be very troublesome if someone brought Josephine into a car

“I-It can’t be…”

of the

wasn’t speaking about Lewis; it

Lewis kept silent.

and turns among them. He anxiously asked,

“Locate her.”

could turn it on, Lewis said, “There’s

materialized a white watch and cast

flickered when

He concluded, “It’s the one Josephine wore. Did someone

it in

up from the parking lot. Did

and got up

in, “I’ll

if someone actually did abduct Josephine.

before stopping and looking back at Lewis. Lewis continued smoking with a sullen

it be that Lewis knew who

scratched his flappy stomach. After mulling over it, he contacted some helpers

continue the search.

Josephine’s disappearance this time differed from the

was in a car. She leaned against the car door and looked out

was almost certain that she had strayed from the familiar part