“No, I want to help you find Gary, “Isabella seemed determined and tried her best to calm down. She thought to herself, Gary has already suffered a lot when he was in the welfare house. I can’t bear to watch him suffer again. Ada is a dangerous woman and she’s insane. God knows what she will do to Gary when she catches him?!
“Rest assured, Isabella. I asked a friend to post an arrest notice online. Someone on the Internet will provide clues as long as Ada is seen in public,” Ryan said.
At the same time, the cops were still searching the hills and the surrounding area. In the afternoon, the location Ryan’s laptop screen flashed again, and it indicated that Ada was inside a mall downtown.
A group of plainclothes officers immediately went there. As the rest of the group rushed there, Isabella went with them as well.
The car stopped near the mall. After getting out of the car, plainclothes officers quickly and expertly took up positions at various points and passed messages back and forth. Listening to Ryan’s instructions from their headsets, they approached their target slowly.
They were dressed up as mall cleaners, cafe clerks, or customers. Ryan sat in a cafe on the third floor and pretended to be a college student writing a paper there. “You two have no professional training, so act like you’re shopping. Pretend to be Isabella’s father, Jasper. Don’t act too conspicuous,” Ryan said.
What do you mean by “pretending to be father and daughter”, Ryan? Isabella and I are already father and daughter. Thinking of that, Jasper said nothing. He was waiting in line at the cafe’s door to buy a cake for Isabella. After buying the cake, he returned to the cafe and placed it in front of Isabella.
Isabella was feeling down and wasn’t in the mood for cakes. She was irritated when she noticed Jasper was calm as if nothing significant seemed to have happened.
Jasper sat across from her, unpacked the cake box, and pushed it in front of her once more. He was as cool and collected as usual, as if he hadn’t taken the things that happened last night seriously at all. So, Isabella suspected he was too drunk to remember anything.
“I’m going to the bathroom,” she said abruptly.
In the bathroom, she sobered up by washing her face. Instead of returning the way she came, she went around another corner. At that time, she saw a familiar child.
Gary was dressed in a light gray hooded sweatshirt and a small baseball cap. Isabella almost didn’t recognize him because his clothes were nothing like the ones he had worn before leaving the house.
A woman was holding his hand, and her clothes matched Ryan’s description. Then Isabella realized the woman had to be Ada.
Before she had a chance to run away, Gary noticed Isabella. “Isabella!” he exclaimed, waving his right hand.
“Gary!”
After hearing Gary’s voice, Isabella decided to run to him anyway. At the same time, Gary also tried to break free from Ada’s hand. And Ada immediately reacted to what had happened and ran to the elevator with Gary in her arms.
“The target is on her way to the first floor,” While speaking over the intercom, the nearby police officers quickly followed her.
The police officers quickly ran towards the first-floor lobby. Isabella also moved that way, with Jasper close behind.
Eventually, Ada was stopped in her tracks at the mall’s main entrance. A group of plainclothes cops drew their guns on her and ordered her to stop.
She held Gary in one hand while pulling a fruit knife from her pocket. She then placed the blade against his neck. “If any of you dare to come over, I’ll stab him right away,” she warned everyone around her, her voice cold and sinister.
Gary screamed in terror as everything happened so quickly. “Mommy!” he mumbled as he cried. On the other hand, Ada simply ignored him as if she didn’t hear him. Gary was so terrified that he couldn’t breathe, so he kept struggling.
Ada became angry after hearing his cries and then cut him lightly on his neck with the knife. “Shut up! Don’t call me ‘mom,’ you idiot! I worked so hard to find you a place to live, but you ran away! She only raised you for a few months! Do you even remember who your mother is? You ungrateful brat!” She yelled angrily at him.
Terrified, Gary screamed and struggled to get away, his mouth wide open. As Isabella saw that, she felt heartbroken. She shouted to Ada from a distance, “You’re so vicious! Gary is your own son! Why are you doing that to him?!”
Ada sneered and turned to face Isabella. She cast a sinister look at her and said, “Aren’t you Anna’s adopted daughter? Her favorite hobby is raising children for others, doesn’t she? So, you must be as cheap as she is.”
Gary was crying so hard that he couldn’t breathe. Instead of shouting “mommy,” he reached out his hand and shouted Isabella’s name.
Hearing that, Ada was enraged and shouted with wide eyes, “Shut up! She’s Anna’s daughter. You are not allowed to talk to her!”
You broke my heart, Gary. I always take you as the only person I care= about in the world. And now, you’re so intimate with Anna as if she were your own mother! That fucking bitch has already stolen everything from me. I can’t let her steal you away from me!
At the thought of that, Ada looked like she was going to have a nervous breakdown, so the cops were ready to shoot her at any moment. They were, however, extremely cautious because they were in a crowded mall.
Ada seemed to sense the tension in the room. She tightened her grip on Gary again, the cold tip of her knife resting against his neck. Then she shouted hysterically, “He’ll die if you shoot me!”
“No!” Isabella’s face turned pale with shock. She wanted to run over and save Gary right away, but Jasper stopped her. After that, she leaned against the door, unsure of what she should do.
At that precise moment, a car stopped in front of the mall. Ada’s accomplice was there to pick her up. He opened the door and shouted, “Ada, get in the car, now!”
At that precise moment, Ada took a step back, her expression still wary. And the police officers followed her cautiously out of the door, holding their guns tightly. They all heard Ryan’s voice ring through their headsets, “We can’t let her go! Otherwise, we won’t be able to catch her again!” In response to his words, the police quickly implemented a shooting strategy.
After being carried to the car by Ada, Gary cried and looked reluctant to go with her. Ada had run out of patience at this point. “If you keep carrying this liability, he’ll ruin things for us,” her accomplice warned.
Upon that, Ada paused for a moment before making her decision. Then, with a malicious look, she cut her arm with the knife before dragging Gary out of the car.
“Do you want to save him?” she asked, reaching out the knife in her hand and pointing to Isabella.
Isabella nodded without hesitation.
“I’ll let him go, but I want you to be the hostage. I’ll let you go as soon as we reach our destination.”
Desperate to save Gary, Isabella took a huge step forward. Suddenly, Jasper stopped her and yelled, “Don’t go, Isabella! Let me be your hostage, Ada,” he said as he took two steps forward and stood in front of Isabella.
“No! I only want her to go with me!” Ada stopped him, reached out her knife, and pointed it at Isabella.
Over their headsets, everyone heard the final command, “Prepare to fire, Eagle. Keep her alive. “
Eagle kept his gun drawn and watched as Isabella made her way to Ada.
“Let Gary go,” Isabella said calmly as she approached Ada. Ignoring her words, Ada yanked Isabella, held the knife against her neck, and then pushed Gary away. Gary stumbled and fell to the ground. He stood up and clutched Isabella’s thigh, refusing to let go. He kept calling Isabella’s name, and that broke her heart.
Ada was not as patient as Isabella. She continued to scold him and even kicked him hard in her rage. As a result, Gary flew out and hit his head on a nearby trash can. He screamed a few more times before stopping moving.
Isabella’s eyes widened in disbelief as she couldn’t believe Ada would do this to her son. Ada didn’t seem to be expecting it either. She took a long time to catch her breath before slamming Isabella.
“If you move again, I’ll do the same to you.” She had just finished speaking when she heard gunshots.
The next second, Ada was taken aback when she felt a sharp pain penetrating her chest. When she looked down, she noticed that blood was leaking from her chest.
“Bitch!!!” She cursed and raised the dagger in her hand, preparing to stab Isabella.
Isabella didn’t have time to react and stood there wide-eyed as the knife approached her chest. She took a few big steps back. And a stream of blood flowed down her fingers after the dagger pierced the back of her hand.
Meanwhile, Jasper frowned, blaming himself for not being able to save her in time.
Seeing that Isabella was still in a trance, Ada immediately attempted to stab her again, and Eagle shot Ada again. Before the knife in her hand reached Isabella, Ada fell backward, and her accomplice dragged her into the car before she fell down on the ground.
The car soon sped away.
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“The vehicle is approaching First Street. Keep up with it.” After hearing the order, most police officers jumped into their cars and followed them, leaving two of their colleagues to stay behind and pacify the crowd.
Isabella’s lips gradually turned pale, and she had sweat on her forehead. Her body trembled slightly as she bled all over the floor. What just happened was so frightening that it took her a long time to react.
Jasper stood behind Isabella to hold her in case she fell. He had been nervous for her the whole time. At that moment, he was feeling conflicted, and he had a lot of things that he wanted to say to Isabella. He remained silent, however.
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