Knowing how important Ashtyn is to Vivian and Edward, Adriana hastily arranges for Harlee to send home a pregnant Eliza, as well as her own two children.
They also joined the search.
Because the child was missing, Edward had already called the police, and during the New Year period, the police came out quickly.
The entire Neptune street was blocked off, everyone was carefully checked, and every place to hide was searched, but there was no sign of Ashtyn.
It was late at night and we all returned to Asnana villa, physically and mentally exhausted.
Seeing them finally come back, Eliza was about to ask, but when she saw their expressions, she swallowed her words.
Have the cook bring up their evening meal.
“Have something to eat, it’s been a long day.”
Harlee said to the four men.
Edward and Vivian both looked like they had lost their souls, sitting frozen, their eyes empty.
“Vivian, come on, eat something or you won’t have the strength to keep looking.”
Adriana held back her heartache and brought the noodles to Vivian’s hand, persuading her in a gentle voice.
Vivian then looked up, look at her head down and then look at the noodles in her hands, instant tears came down.
“Ashtyn has been missing for a day, and I don’t know if there’s anything to eat, starving or not.”
The thought of Ashtyn somewhere, without food or water, was so painful that she couldn’t breathe.
Never cold, hard and strong face covered with disheveled, eyes full of scarlet, face gray and defeated without the slightest spirit, full of self-reproach guilt.
The child was missing from his hands, and he still doesn’t know who snatched it away from him.
“Edward, where the hell did the baby go?”
Vivian was tormented by full of worry and heartache almost broke down, pinching Edward’s hand and shouting in grief.
Edward had a bitter face and his mouth opened and closed.
“I don’t know, I …”
He lowered his head, clutching his head, lost in thought.
“How can you be a father? The baby was properly in your hands and you let him disappear.”
She frantically punched Edward, who didn’t move half as much and let her have her way.
“Vivian, don’t get too excited, Edward didn’t mean it either. Let’s all work together to find it seriously, we will definitely be able to find the child.”
Adriana hurriedly wrapped her arms around the out-of-control Vivian and softly comforted her.
Give a wink to Peter and tell him to take Edward away and not to irritate Vivian anymore.
“Let’s eat something first, eat enough to have the strength to find the child, right? You eat first, and when you’re full we’ll continue to go out and look tomorrow. I’ll inform everyone we know to help keep an eye out, okay?”
Adriana knows that Vivian’s mind is in turmoil right now, and she has to get Vivian to settle down and have a goal, or Vivian might go crazy.
Vivian looked at Adriana with teary eyes, her eyes full of despair and helplessness.
“Is there any hope of finding it? He’s so small, it would be easy to …” without someone to take care of him
“Vivian, listen to me, the baby is definitely fine now, you can trust me.”
From the time the child disappeared, Adriana started thinking about quite a few possibilities while looking for the child, and only after communicating with Peter did she settle on one.
If it is usual, Edward will not ignore, but now he is also because of the child’s problem heart is in turmoil, the brain is blank.
“Really?”
Vivian was in complete disarray at this point, and she clung to Adriana as if she had caught the last straw, as if her words were her only hope.
“Of course, you are in such a bad shape, you trust me, tomorrow we will go out to look again. It may be a bit of a tough process, but if you’re not even strong, isn’t Ashtyn even more hopeless?”
Adriana gently patted Vivian’s back and coaxed her to eat the noodles without knowing what she was eating.
“Brother, help pour a glass of water.”
Adriana said to Harlee, winking.
Harlee instantly understood what she meant and turned to pour over a glass of water and added a little something to it.
“Here.”
Adriana brought the glass of water to Vivian’s mouth and coaxed her to drink it.
Within a few moments, Vivian’s eyelids began to get heavy and her body went limp.
Adriana assisted her and lay down on the couch.
“What the hell do you think is going on here? How come a good child is missing?”
Harlee simply shuddered at the thought that if a child that young was missing from his life, he wouldn’t even dare to think about it.
“Don’t let me catch who’s behind this.”
Adriana’s plain hand slapped hard on the coffee table, a cold and stern face.
“Adri, what do you mean?”
Harlee exclaims that he came back early and wasn’t sure what was going on with the missing child?
“Yes, the child was taken from me, I can be sure of that.”
Edward’s hoarse voice sounded, he dragged his tired feet, his eyes filled with tender guilt looking at Vivian and coming to her side.
“The baby I held tightly in my hands, but many people around me were premeditatedly bumping into me, and they were definitely planning to snatch Ashtyn.”
Edward gritted his teeth and said, word for word, the words that caused him immense heartache.
“Yes, if it was an accident, there is no way we could have searched for a day and not found it.”
Adriana feels the same way.
“Edward, hurry up and eat something, if you can’t hold out, Vivian will not be able to do it even more, and then the baby will be in real danger.”
Adriana looked at Edward and Vivian with worry, they were just about to start their happy little life, and then something like this happened.
She couldn’t even imagine what would happen to them if Ashtyn couldn’t be recovered.
“I know it, and I will get the baby back, no matter how hard it is.”
He leaned down and picked Vivian up in his arms, gritting his teeth and swearing with word-for-word determination.
Peter tapped him on the shoulder.
“Something to talk about.”
Edward nodded vigorously and carried Vivian up the stairs.
Looking at the backs of the two, Adriana couldn’t help but sigh.
“What is this all about.”
The New Year, Old Mr. Alston passed away, Ashtyn disappeared, this year’s year is not very auspicious.
“Come on, all go and rest, it’s the middle of the night, there’s still work tomorrow.”
Harlee wrapped her arms around Eliza, and couldn’t help but be a little thankful that Eliza went inside the store today, if she was outside and had an accident, it would have been a real disaster.
“You should be at home these days, don’t go out, I don’t worry about you.”
He said this to Eliza.
Eliza saw the worried fear in his eyes and nodded her head in agreement.
“Good.”
Adriana and Peter went back to their room and Adriana hesitated for a moment and opened her mouth to ask.
“Do you think Ashtyn, can you still find it?”
Peter undressed with a start and looked back at her, expressionless.
Adriana, who was familiar with his reaction, instantly understood what he meant.
“You don’t think it’s likely either, do you?”
In fact, they didn’t even show it in front of Vivian and Edward.
So small children, even if someone deliberately snatched, if the care is not careful enough, it is easy to die.
Especially since no one has called all day today to ask for anything, it has made the hope in their hearts even more faint.
“What do you think, who did it?”
Adriana hated the thought that Vivian might go crazy if Ashtyn really didn’t come back.
Peter patted her on the shoulder.
“Just know it in your own mind, and don’t say it tomorrow in front of them.”
Vivian and Edward are now holding on to a glimmer of hope so that they don’t give up their search.
If they knew there was little hope for their child, they would probably just fall apart.