"Lulu, it's time for dinner. Lulu..."

Cillian knocked on the door, but there was no response. His heart skipped a beat. Without any hesitation, he reached for the doorknob and pushed the door open.

Inside, he found a cluttered table with scattered draft papers and a lonely laptop sitting on top. Lucy was nowhere to be seen.

Cillian felt a pang of anxiety, but before he went into full panic mode, someone tugged at the hem of his clothes. He turned around and saw that it was a little girl with short hair.

He recognized her. It was the landlady's child who often stuck around Lucy. Britney stared at him with her large eyes as she said, "Sir, I forgot to tell you that Ms. Lucy went out to the garden.

"She saw that you were busy with work, so she didn't want to disturb you. She asked me to wait until you were finished with work to let you know so that you wouldn't worry too much."

Cillian did not bother addressing the fact that the kid called Lucy 'Ms. Lucy' but him 'sir.'

Hearing that Lucy went out for a walk eased his worries a bit, but after a while, he felt that something was not right.

asked,

but it was probably

as she tried to recall what

said that Lucy left around early afternoon, which meant that she left around one or two

at least five or six hours had passed since then. Lucy would not have been out in the

He had to go find her. Cillian stood up shakily, but he suppressed

only have one garden. Just go out the door and keep turning right. When

the obedient child. He grabbed his phone before informing Maggie and dashing out of the house, following the directions Britney gave him. While searching,

Cillian had already made sure that there were no assassins in Charleston. Nobody here

was dead to the outside world. Who would go through so much trouble to harm a dead

went for a walk in

beautiful scenery and lost track of time. Yes, that had

he called

to charge her phone before leaving, so it was switched off. Despite Cillian's persistent efforts, he could not reach

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