“Jane, don’t worry. Maybe someone else saw the people who came in and can help us,” one of Jane’s friends reassured her.
Jane stood up and quickly asked her friends for the list of invited guests to see who was present and who wasn’t.
After asking, it turned out that two friends were missing.
No one knew where they had gone.
Jane hurriedly called these two friends on the phone. When they picked up, they quickly explained to Jane.
“We’re on our way back right now.”
When they returned and explained what had happened to Jane, she finally understood why they had left.
It turned out that they had seen a woman carrying the two babies. At first, they thought the woman was one of Jane’s invited guests.
But when the woman tried to walk towards the exit carrying the babies, they stopped her.
Surprisingly, the woman told them her name was Melissa and that Jane would provide all the answers they needed.
Worried that something might happen, they followed her, but they were intimidated along the way. They became anxious and hurried back to inform Jane.
As ordinary people, they had never experienced such a situation before.
They thought they would be back in just two or three minutes and didn’t even consider directly calling Jane.
But Jane called them first.
They rushed back in a panic. When Jane heard their explanation, she turned to her friends and said, “Please help me search for Melissa. If any of you find her, stop her and immediately let me know.”
Jane’s words confused some of her friends. “Shouldn’t we report this to the police? Isn’t this person a kidnapper? Or is she really your friend who forcefully took the children away?”
Jane didn’t have time to explain in detail at the moment.
“She has the right to hold the children, but it must be with my knowledge, and she absolutely can’t take them away today.”
“Today is the children’s hundred-day banquet. I’ll explain the details later. Right now, it’s crucial to find the children. Please help me.”
After saying that, Jane grabbed a friend and rushed to the location they had mentioned earlier.
They arrived there but couldn’t find Melissa. They enlisted the help of other friends to search the surrounding area, but there was still no sign of the children. Tears unconsciously welled up in Jane’s eyes.
She didn’t understand what mistake she had made. She had only wanted to organize a hundred-day banquet for the children, yet such a mistake occurred.
If she hadn’t gone to greet her friends at the entrance but had asked someone else to do it, maybe this wouldn’t have happened.
“Don’t cry. Crying won’t solve the problem. Let’s go back and continue searching. Perhaps Melissa hasn’t left the hotel yet and is hiding somewhere with the children,” April said, trying to console Jane.
Jane agreed with April’s reasoning and hurried back to the hotel with her.
When they returned to the hotel, they asked others if they had seen Melissa, but everyone shook their heads. They were only searching the surroundings.
Upon hearing this, Jane quickly headed to the hotel’s surveillance room. She believed that if they found the surveillance footage, they might be able to see where Melissa was.
When they arrived at the surveillance room, Jane explained the situation to the staff, who then spoke to Jane.
“Don’t worry, we can retrieve the surveillance footage right away. However, taking the footage with us is not allowed. We can only view it here,” the surveillance staff said.
“Unless you have relevant department documents or personnel from the relevant department, you don’t have the authority to make a copy of the surveillance footage.”
Jane didn’t intend to take the surveillance footage with her. She nodded and waited for the surveillance personnel to retrieve it. As Jane watched, Melissa disappeared from the surveillance view, but she didn’t know where exactly.
This was because the hotel’s surveillance only focused on the internal areas of the hotel, and the footage at the entrance was limited.
Jane felt lost at the moment, feeling helpless and unsure of what to do.
“Why does this keep happening over and over again? Should I be the only one suffering?” she said, tears streaming down her face as she hugged herself.
“Patrick might be able to contact Melissa. Why don’t you give him a call?” April suggested, thinking that a phone call could easily resolve the situation.
However, the relationship between Jane and Melissa had deteriorated to a certain extent, so even if Jane called, Melissa might not answer.
Moreover, if Melissa was willing to answer the phone, she wouldn’t have silently taken the children away but would have informed Jane first.
So now Jane came up with a simple solution that wasn’t really a solution.
“Yes, yes, I’ll call Patrick right away.”
Jane took out her phone in a panic and dialed Patrick’s number.
“Ring… ring… ring…”
“The number you have dialed is not answering. If you would like to leave a message, please do so after the beep.”
After hanging up the call, Jane tried again, but the result was the same. A sense of anger welled up in her heart.
She believed that the matter of the children was originally between Patrick and Melissa, and there was nothing wrong with either of them taking care of the child.
However, since she had impulsively taken the children back, she had to take responsibility for them.
But now, the scene she least wanted to see had unfolded.
Without hesitation, Jane dialed three digits.
When she heard the voice on the other end, Jane immediately explained the situation.
“Have you called the police? Aren’t you going to search anymore? Perhaps Patrick will call back soon,” April said when she saw Jane reporting the incident. She also felt that the situation seemed to be escalating.
“We can’t wait any longer. I must ensure the safety of the children. Whatever Melissa wants to do, I need to have a resolution,” Jane firmly stated in her heart. She was convinced that this matter was not as simple as it seemed, and she needed to uncover the truth no matter what!