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?”

and leaned back into the sofa. He pulled out

reaction spoke volumes-that little mute was missing again.

to a cigarette from the

findings next to them. After grasping the situation, Seth looked up at Gerald and asked, “Did you say you lost track of her after she entered the stairway?”

it?” Gerald

cameras in

“Why would I install

can’t

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

the parking lot comprised two levels; it was vast.

cast a glance at Lewis and said slowly, “What if someone took her away from

to find

question triggered more intense

Josephine into a car within the blindspots of the surveillance. cameras and

“I-It can’t be…”

her every second of the day. That person

about Lewis;

Lewis kept silent.

and turns among them. He anxiously asked, “What should

“Locate her.”

phone. Before he could turn it on, Lewis said, “There’s no

watch and cast it on the round

eyes flickered when he saw it.

He concluded, “It’s the

it in

on Gerald. No wonder Lewis stopped searching after he came up from the parking

and got up

chipped in, “I’ll look for her.”

no trivial matter if

back at Lewis. Lewis continued smoking with a sullen expression. He barely spoke,

be that Lewis knew

flappy stomach. After mulling over it, he contacted

continue the search.

a hunch that Josephine’s disappearance this time differed from

door and looked out the window. The roads whizzing

that she had strayed