The bedroom door was closed again, and Jeff was only slightly relieved that he had finally been sort of lulled to sleep.
When he returned to the living room, Zach Stone, who had been lying in his chair, was up at some point, his eyes drowsy as he looked at the man in front of him.
Jeff patted him on the shoulder and couldn’t help but laugh, “When did you wake up?”
“While you were talking to him.”
“Did it wake you up?”
“Nope.” Zach Stone shook his head and smiled bitterly, “Wasn’t sleeping soundly.”
“Also ……” Jeff nodded knowing that Elena Bush without a scrap of news was unsettling anyone, much less down to earth.
A phone rang suddenly and Zach Stone gave a jolt, “There’s movement!”
“Who’s it from?” Jeff came too and immediately padded up.
“Jacob,” Zach Stone said as he opened the communication site he and Jacob had set up and a video call ensued.
Jacob on the video had also been up all night, “Mr Stone.”
Zach Stone nodded, and in order not to delay got straight to the point, “What have you found out over there, any movement on Mason Bush and Emma Bush?”
“They drove to G last night and should have arrived about two hours ago, but they couldn’t find his car after they left the G highway, so they must have gone to the unsupervised suburbs.”
“Surely it was premeditated.”
Zach Stone slapped his head in remorse, “Why didn’t I know what they were up to sooner? If I would have spotted it sooner, maybe I wouldn’t have ……”
“It’s okay with Mr. Stone, after all, a lot of this isn’t something you can stop either.” Jacob said in a deep voice.
Jeff also chimed in with understanding, “And you don’t need to take it all on yourself at once.”
“But I was the one who noticed something was wrong from the start, and I couldn’t stop it from happening.” Zach Stone blames himself for that.
“Let’s get down to business.” Jacob’s eyes flashed and he stopped dwelling on the matter.
Zach Stone nodded and sat up straighter, then followed up with, “Last night Jacqueline took sister-in-law away in a van, only the plates I checked were fake, I couldn’t find where exactly they came from, and after that they drove out of the dead zone of surveillance, they couldn’t be found at all, most likely the plates were changed, or maybe they changed the car ……”
Too many possibilities, so that for a moment they did not know how anyone should start.
Jacob also fell into silence for a moment, half a sound before speaking again, “Jacqueline this time is likely to have long ago the nearby surveillance as well as the route have been designed, that is why delayed so long before making a move.”
“That’s what I thought, but if it’s because of that it’s even harder to do, the longer my sister-in-law disappears the more likely it is ……”
At the end of the sentence, even he himself was a little too afraid to continue, much less to think deeply about it.
Jacob immediately reassured, “And don’t think of things in such a quick way, maybe nothing is at all?”
Even he didn’t want to believe the lie when he said it ……
Jacqueline hated Elena Bush so much, and had gone to such lengths to get her away, how could she not want to do anything?
For a moment, both of them fell silent
When Elena Bush woke up again, there was darkness around her and she felt around for a while before she confirmed that it was an abandoned building.
It was funny to say that she didn’t find it strange at all, having been locked up in the same place with Sophia, and didn’t know whether to be nostalgic for the past or to rue her uselessness.
“Awake?”
A light struck down, allowing her to see clearly all around her.
It wasn’t as bad as she thought it would be, it was even fairly clean, and more than that …… it felt a little like a rented house.
Jacqueline’s face appeared in front of her, making her subconsciously startled , it took her a moment to react before she allowed herself to withdraw her surprise, “Jacqueline, what is it that you want me to do after going to all this trouble?”
“I want you to pay homage to my daughter yourself!” Jacqueline looked at her and suddenly smiled, “You’re wondering why I’m not dead, aren’t you?”
“No need to ask, I’ve probably already guessed.”
Elena Bush smiled and leaned her body naturally against the wall looking at her, “Except I really admire your courage to take such a big risk and either die or live ……”
Jacqueline couldn’t help but laugh along with her as she listened, “So, God is on my side after all, that’s why he let me live and come to you alive!”
And to give her the chance to watch her end up like this, which, in the end, was just the way of God!
“No.” Elena Bush shook her head, “You are alive, but is there any difference between you being alive and being dead?”
Not one iota of difference at all, much less the pain of death!
“Shut up!”
Jacqueline plucked out a fierce look at her, “Who are you to talk about me! Or do you think my face is too ugly? Who do you think did this to me? If it wasn’t for you guys, would I have ended up in this situation?”
“I had nothing to do with it, Jacqueline, you can’t make me take the blame for what happened to you, in the end, it was your own doing!”
She was originally a dead person, she should have died with all her sins, but she had to live, and in the end she had made herself look like this, how could she blame others?
“You’re the one who did this!” Jacqueline couldn’t listen to anything and said, “Elena Bush, you don’t know what was going through my mind the moment I jumped, I thought, if I live, I’ll bury you to the ground!”
And what happened?
God was there for her, God heard her heart’s most desired wish and took pity on her and granted it for her ……
But God is also merciless, in those days she had a high fever, almost nine deaths, and finally her vocal cords were damaged, but she was also glad that it was only her voice, if that was the case, it would not be a bad thing.
The one thing one cannot disguise is one’s voice.
So she thought it was a gift from God, a way of getting back at Elena Bush. ……
Elena Bush looked up at her and couldn’t help but shake her head, “So, you came back, just for me, right?”
The mention of it didn’t surprise her at all, it was even clearer in her mind ……
Jacqueline’s face came a little closer, as if to show her clearly, “Yes! I live for you!”
From the beginning to the end it was so that I could see her in pain!