“My daughter really had the worst fate. She’s so young, and the child was so small!” The lady’s eyes turned red with sorrow as she mumbled, but in an instant, she realized that she was overstepping her boundaries. She abruptly stood up and announced, “I must have bothered you.”
Armand dismissed that thought, “That’s not a problem.”
“Then, you can return to your work. Someone who does good will have his rewards in the end. I wish that you can be always blessed by good fortune.” The lady said with a smile.
Armand signalled for the receptionist to send the guest away before going to his office. He worked on arranging some documents about a case which he had accepted a few days ago.
In the past, he would never accept any case like this. It was because he wanted to make himself busy, so he took on this case without a second thought.
Today, he had an appointment with the person that sought his service.
That person was a woman who experienced disloyalty on her husband’s part while she was still pregnant. Now, she wanted to have nothing to do with this husband.
She was a steely-willed woman, and at the moment she learnt of his husband’s cheating behaviour, she didn’t flail around venting her emotions. Instead, she immediately knew that she must secure the family’s fortune in her own hands.
“Although you know that your husband is cheating on you, you must have substantial evidence too. You are now in your gestation, so as long as you can provide infallible evidence about your husband’s cheating, it would be a walk in the park to make him disappear from the family register.”
“I heard that you rarely accepted these cases if any at all, Mr. Bernie. You have my utmost gratitude for being willing to help me.”
“I am a lawyer. Since I am commissioned by you, I must fight for your benefit’s sake.” Armand replied nonchalantly, “Now that your husband is still oblivious to the fact that you have learnt of his cheating, you must secure the most impenetrable evidence in the shortest amount of time possible.”
“I will, so I hope that you will also do your best later, Mr. Bernie.” The woman stood up while cupping her stomach.
Armand assured her that he would do just that.
He instructed for this person to be sent away before immersing himself in making the information on his client’s inheritance in order.
The couple owned a house which was their wedding house when they first married. The husband paid for the property and the wife paid for the renovation. The husband was a manager in a company who commanded eight hundred thousand dollars annually. There was a car worth three hundred thousand dollars at home and they had savings over a million dollars. It was a modest family, but this family was going to be torn apart due to the husband’s cheating.
The aforementioned assets were owned by this family, and now the wife wanted for the husband to be removed from the family register.
It was rare to see anyone who could remain so cold and calm when faced with such a predicament.
His phone which was on the table started to buzz.
Armand picked up and pressed the answer button. He then immediately heard Bertha’s anxious voice, “Mr. Bernie, something’s wrong. Madame Bernie is missing.”
Armand frowned as he asked under his breath, “What happened?”
“She said she wanted to get a breath of fresh air, so I brought her to the park to take a stroll. When we were walking, she saw someone selling steamed sponge cake, and she wanted to try it, so she asked me to buy one for her. However, in the few minutes that I was buying the cake, she had gone missing.”
“Did you look all over the park?” Armand got up and started to exit his office.
“I have looked around. There’s no sign of her. I don’t want this to worsen, so I am calling you now.”
“I understand the situation now. Continue to look for her, I am on my way.”
After saying that, he hung up his phone and got into his car.
When Armand rushed to the place, Bertha was still anxiously asking the passers-by in the park. Elizabeth was missing under her care. She was afraid of taking responsibility, so she almost cried out of anxiousness.
Armand walked over to her quickly, “Have you searched the whole place?”
“Yes, I’ve looked everywhere, but I still couldn’t find her. Her legs are too weak to walk, how can she just disappear like that?” Bertha felt extremely apprehensive. She said anxiously, “Her legs are not strong, how could she have disappeared so quickly?”
“How long has she been missing?” Armand asked.
“Not more than an hour.” Bertha was afraid that something would happen to her, so she informed Armand in the first place. Hence, the time was not very long.
If an adult was missing in less than 24 hours, the police would not file the case. “Let’s split up to find her. You go home and see. Contact me through the phone if you found her.:
Bertha said, “Okay, I’ll go back now.”
Armand was quite calm. After he instructed Bertha to go home, he went to find the management office. The park belonged to the community management team. All the entrances and exits had installed cameras, so he went to check on the security footage.
When they heard that someone in the community was missing, they were very enthusiastic and helped to find it. Bertha said that Elizabeth was missing for less than an hour. Hence, checking the footage within this period was not a difficult task.
Soon, they found the figure of Elizabeth in the footage.
Elizabeth rolled her wheelchair out of the park when Bertha went to buy some cakes. It could be determined that Elizabeth was not in the park anymore, so Armand went outside the park to look for her.
A few people from the community management team helped him to look for Elizabeth.
“Let’s split up and search.” Armand said, “Her legs are weak, so she wouldn’t go too far.”
Three or four of them split up to look for her.
An hour passed by and there was no sign of Elizabeth. One of the men said, “Is it possible that she went somewhere else? Otherwise, why did she leave the park by herself all of a sudden?”
This person’s words struck Armand’s mind. Elizabeth was not in this neighbourhood, so she must have gone somewhere else, but Elizabeth seldom interacted with people. The relatives had to stop contacting them because of his parents, so she would not have gone to anyone’s home.
Now, there was nowhere to continue the search. He could only give every place a try. He went to their previous house, the place where he lived before he graduated. The house that they were living in now was bought by Armand after he earn some money when he became a lawyer.
This place was very shabby already and not many people lived here. The wires were shuttled in a complicated manner, clothes were hanging outside the windows. Underwear and socks could be seen everywhere, and there was no cleanliness at all.
Armand went to the house, but he didn’t see her. He held his phone with Elizabeth’s picture displaying on the screen and asked if anyone saw her. Everyone said they did not see her at all.
After making sure that she was not there, he got into the car and began to feel more and more anxious. She was not here, where could she be?
He started the car, turned around and headed back. When he passed by the school he used to go to, where the old campus had been abandoned, he seemed to see Elizabeth’s figure in front of the big steel gate.
He stopped the car and looked back. He saw that it was indeed Elizabeth in front of the gate. He got out of the car immediately and walked to her.
“Why did you come here?’ Armand felt a sudden relief because he was glad to find her. However, he felt angry that she ran away on her own without informing anyone, which made everybody so worried about her.
Elizabeth turned around and said with a smile, “You’re out of school? I’ve come to pick you up after school.”
“What are you talking about?” Armand frowned, they had not been living here for a long time already.
“I!” Elizabeth became confused again, “What do I want to do just now?”
“Let’s go home.” Armand pushed her wheelchair.
Suddenly, Elizabeth slapped her thigh, “I came to find you! There’s a sports competition in your school today, so I came to see you compete.”
Elizabeth’s words startled Armand. What was wrong with her?
After they got into the car, Armand called Bertha to stop looking for Elizabeth because he had already found her, “Inform the management team to stop looking.”
Bertha said she got it.
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.