For a moment, their minds went blank. Luckily, it wasn’t Louis behind the wheel; otherwise, his current unstable state might have caused a catastrophe on this highway.
Louis’s voice was harsh and unpleasant, “Didn’t I tell you to keep her safe? Why did she disappear?”
Patrick briefly recounted the process to Louis. There were surveillance cameras in the restaurant, and the circuit had been cut at the time. Fortunately, the cameras were not connected to the same line, so everything that happened at that time could be retrieved through the surveillance footage.
Patrick was also anxious and weighed down by the situation, but his professional instinct forced him to calmly analyze the current situation for Louis, “Louis, it’s my responsibility that Miss Powell wasn’t protected. The person who kidnapped Miss Powell this time is quite tricky. They first hid in the restroom, then cut off the restaurant’s power once they had control of someone. Judging by their skilled methods, it seems they had been monitoring Miss Powell’s phone in advance and knew she had made a reservation at the restaurant early in the morning.”
Just from the aspect of monitoring her phone to invade her privacy, it was clear that the other party was no ordinary person.
Louis took a deep breath and quickly calmed down, telling Patrick, “Send me the surveillance footage. I have two suspects here: Hamish and Finn. Get more people from the White family to investigate Finn, and I’ll contact Hamish. Also, send me the route Elisa was taken. I’ll go there directly.”
“Yes.”
Patrick had already sent people to investigate the route taken by the car that kidnapped Elisa through the road surveillance cameras. Not every road had surveillance cameras. Once they reached the outskirts, the cameras were no longer there. Additionally, the intricate paths in the wilderness were the most difficult to determine. It’s easy to find people in crowded areas, but every second was crucial now. They were afraid Elisa might be in danger.
Last time, when Finn took Elisa, it was fortunate that there was a ring tracker. They found her in time, unharmed. However, this time, all of Elisa’s jewelry had been thrown away. Her ring and phone were thrown into the toilet.
This time, judging from the preparation of the other party, it was clear that this situation was much more complicated than the last.
…
The thought of something happening to Elisa made Louis’s chest ache uncontrollably, and he opened his mouth, unable to breathe from the pain.
Patrick quickly sent the video to Louis’s phone. He opened it and saw Elisa entering the restroom. After a while, there was a scream from inside, which abruptly stopped. There was a shadow at the door, and after everything went silent, darkness surrounded the area. Soon, a tall figure appeared in the restroom. From the camera, all that could be seen was that this person was muscular, wearing a mask, and a work uniform, carrying someone over their shoulder. The figure walked into the safety notice, and the scene switched to the figure pushing a garbage bin out.
Louis’s eyes, already reddened, now seemed bloodshot, a bit frightening, as if two drops of blood had dripped into them. Watching Elisa being taken away secretly, despair filled his eyes.
Louis had many dark thoughts. Each one made his heart ache uncontrollably, filled with fear and soul-shaking.
He clenched his fist tightly, forcing himself to calm down and not panic. Clearly, the abduction of Elisa had been carefully planned.
After confirming the route the kidnapper took, Louis checked his location and instructed the driver to change direction at the next intersection.
Then he called Hamish.
Hamish answered quickly, but before he could speak, Louis asked directly, “Did you have someone kidnap Elisa?”
“What?”
Louis ground his teeth, “Don’t play dumb with me. Elisa is missing, and besides you, who else could have secretly taken her away?”
To be honest, Louis was more suspicious of Hamish. Before, he had lost his memory and had no recollection of the past. Now that he remembered everything, he knew that Hamish had treated Elisa poorly and had a strong possessiveness towards her. Considering the things Hamish had deceived him about before, once a person’s impression of someone turns negative, nothing that person does will be of any help.
It was like catching a thief; if something else went missing in the future, the first person to be suspected would always be them.
Louis had an extremely negative impression of Hamish. He was so angry that he wanted to kill him for how he had treated Elisa.
“I didn’t kidnap her. Wasn’t she always under your protection? Why would someone kidnap her?” Hamish’s face grew darker as he listened. When he took Louis’s call, a sudden fear rose in his heart, as if a stone had been placed on his chest, and black despair loomed above him.
Engagement in a dispute over the phone would be foolish. Both men calmed down and agreed to meet at a specific location. Louis provided the address to Hamish.
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Elisa’s disappearance and the subsequent phone call from Louis hit Hamish like a thunderbolt, leaving his head spinning and his mind blank.
Before his brain could even react, he was already on the phone with his subordinates, launching a full-fledged investigation to find the person who had kidnapped Elisa, conducting a thorough search for her location.
Out of fear, his lungs pained him greatly. Hamish coughed up blood and, pale-faced, found medication, opening the bottle and swallowing a few pills to relieve the pain.