“There’s water, a lot of water.” Amanda grabbed her collar. “Mommy, I’m scared, I’m really scared.”
Loredana kissed her forehead. “Mommy’s here. You won’t be scared when mommy holds you.”
She was exceptionally horrified at the moment and she was worried that something would happen to Boyce.
“How could this happen?” Coral walked anxiously back and forth in the living room. “Mr. Shawn came to deliver the car keys, and just in time, Simona was pulling Lucy to buy a cake. The chauffeur had taken a leave, so Mr. Shawn drove them. How could the car go down the bridge?”
Loredana asked, “Why did she suddenly want to eat cake?”
She preferred eating ice cream during summer. There were many in the refrigerator at home.
Coral was gossiping with Lucy. Coral inadvertently asked Lucy’s age. As they talked, they mentioned about birthday. As a result, she knew that today was Lucy’s birthday. Amanda heard it and she insisted to buy a cake.
The chauffeur was not at home, and since Boyce had come, he was asked to drive them out. No one had expected such a thing to happen.
There were only Loredana, the two children and Coral in the villa.
Jayden and Kevin went out to help find Boyce.
She had no idea what had exactly happened during that time. One was dead, one had gone missing, and the other was stupefied and was shivering in Loredana’s arms.
Amanda did not sleep nor speak, she nestled in Loredana’s arms. Andrew was sitting on the sofa opposite, he pursed his lips and looked at his sister. He suddenly came down the sofa, went to Loredana, touched his sister’s head and asked, “Are you hungry?”
Amanda did not speak.
He sighed. His sister was truly frightened this time and she did not even want to say anything.
It was late at night. Loredana asked Coral to take Andrew to bed. He refused. “What about you?”
“I’m waiting for your father.” Loredana looked at her son. “Be a good boy and go to bed.”
Andrew sat next to her and said, “I want to stay with you.”
Loredana touched her son’s head and took him into her arms. Waiting would not be so painful with them around.
They did not sleep that night. When it was bright in the morning, Coral said, “I’ll get you something to eat. You didn’t eat last night. With your current health, you can’t always skip meals.” “Please make something.”
Cormac had not come back yet. It must be that Boyce was not found yet. How could she have the appetite to eat?
Even if she did not eat, the two children still need something to eat. When Jayden and the gang came back, they could have something to eat too.
It was always right to prepare something.
However, all this was prepared in vain. They did not come back the whole day.
The two children could not help but fall asleep on the sofa. Loredana carried Amanda and went upstairs, while Coral took Andrew into the room downstairs to sleep.
She sat by the bed and pulled a little quilt over her daughter. She did not dare to put her down. When she fell asleep, she would suddenly wake up and look for her. That was caused by excessive fright.
Coral put Andrew on the bed. Seeing that there was no sign of him waking up, she went to the kitchen and brought a bowl of soup to Loredana. “Do you want to eat this bowl of soup?”
Loredana shook her head. “I can’t.”
“You have to even if you can’t. You’re not alone.” Coral scooped the soup with a spoon, reached it to her and said, “I’ll feed you.”
“It’s okay, leave it on the table. I’ll eat it later.” Loredana could not possibly let Coral feed her. She really did not want to eat it, but she did not want Coral to worry too.
At this time, there was a sound of door opening downstairs. Loredana became alert. “Are they coming back?”
Coral said, “I’ll go down and have a look.”
Soon there were footsteps upstairs. It wasn’t Coral. She turned back. The one coming in was Cormac.
“Well, did you find him?” Loredana asked anxiously.
Cormac did not speak, he jerked his collar and pulled down his face.
Loredana fell silent. He must not have found him, otherwise he would not be in such a bad mood.
Cormac frowned when he saw the untouched soup on the table. “You didn’t eat?”
“I can’t eat.” Loredana lowered her eyes.
Cormac sat by the bed, looked at his daughter and whispered, “It was Declan who did it. I don’t know how his family did it, they managed to get him out. They were going to go abroad. Old Mr. Bailey was going to get executed that day, and they wanted to avenge me.”
During his two nights and one day outside while looking for Boyce, he had investigated the situation at that time. There was monitoring on the bridge. All the scenes at that time were captured.
Declan knew it was Cormac’s car, but he did not know Cormac was not the one driving it. He drove a 4WD cross-country car and frantically hit Boyce’s car. At that time, there were many cars on the bridge, and Boyce could not get away. Since there was a child in the car, he was very passive.
When the car was pushed to the railing by Declan’s car, he threw Amanda out of the window and Amanda was rescued by the people on the road. Neither he nor Lucy got out and they fell with the car. There was a dam under XX Bridge. The current was fast and it was very dangerous.
The car was salvaged, the car doors were closed and the window glass was not damaged. There was no trace of Boyce, only Lucy drowned in it. Loredana trembled a little. “What about Declan now? Escaped?”
“No, he wanted to escape, but before he had time to board the plane, we found him in a nearby small hotel and had sent him to the police station.”
He took the soup from the table and fed it to Loredana, comforting, “It’s a good thing we didn’t find Boyce, that means he may be fine. Armand and Officer Miller are still looking for him. I come back just to have a look at you and I’ll go out later.”
Loredana was still worried. Embankments were built at both sides of the river with stones. It was not easy for anyone to get rescued without help.
“How could Declan get out?” Loredana could not figure it out. His father had become like that, who would have the ability to get him out?
Cormac suddenly understood one thing. Emma Bailey, the sixth of the family, had suddenly showed up in front of Loredana, and it was easy for Boyce to find out that it was her. What was her purpose? Was it really to ruin the relationship between him and Loredana?
It seemed to be not the case now. If it was really to ruin their relationship, she would not disappear after showing up only twice. She was trying to turn his attention away. Although the daughters of the Bailey’s were not satisfied of the Bailey family, Declan was the only man in the Bailey family. Now that Roger Bailey was sentenced to death, in order to secure the Bailey’s only heir, it was still possible to get Declan out.
“Alright, eat something first.” Cormac scooped the soup and handed it to her mouth. “Be a good girl. If you’ve fallen sick, what would happen to the children?”
Loredana could not refuse him and she opened her mouth.
The Miller family was not peaceful these two days too. Officer Miller had been looking for Boyce outside. Mrs. Miller sat on the sofa. “How could this happen? Something’s happened to him when you’ve just recovered.”
“Alright, mom, don’t say anything unlucky.” Wendy was upset and she did not want to listen to her nagging.
“Aren’t I worried about you? You’re divorced. Now that you’ve recovered with Boyce, his life and death are unknown. Why are there so many disasters in your life?”
Wendy was provoked, she got up from the sofa and walked towards the door.
Mrs. Miller was worried and she shouted, “It’s late, where are you going?”
“I’m going to look for dad and see if there’s any clue.” She then went out and did not want to hear Mrs. Miller’s nagging.
New Book: Beginning with a Daring Encounter
Celsie was tired of being labeled as an introvert, workaholic, and dull virgin by her friends. Determined to prove them wrong, she made a bet that she would do something daring on her 25th birthday. Now that the day had arrived, it was time to fulfill her promise. On her daring to-do list, there was one task: a one-night stand with someone.