"She's gone, son. By the way, didn't you say that you heard her voice last night? Do you remember what you heard?" Clara grabbed her son's hand and asked. She regretted not letting her son go to check on Joan the moment he heard something. If he had gone to check on her soon enough, this wouldn't have happened.
"I didn't hear it clearly," Johann replied. He was also filled with regret for not knocking on Joan's door last night and this morning to check if something was amiss.
Jessica sat frozen on the sofa with a look of helplessness on her face. How was she going to find Joan?
"Let's call the police!" Johann hollered.
"Wait a minute. Don't call the police first. I need to inform Larry about this. Please don't say anything about this to anyone yet. |'|| leave now, and I'll call you later."
After saying that, Jessica ran out of the house. No matter what, she had to tell Larry about this. At that time, Larry appeared to be swamped in his office.
Bang! Jessica hurled the door open and barged into his office as she tried to catch her breath. Larry looked at her with disdain.
"Larry, something bad happened," Jessica said in panic.
"What happened?" Larry asked nonchalantly.
Jessica lowered her head and hesitated for a moment. Finally, she summoned her courage and told him what had happened.
"What did you say? Joan's abducted? When?
Who's behind it?" Larry stood up and roared at her.
She knew nothing. Jessica shook her head and hung her head in guilt.
She had promised the man in front of her that she would take good care of Joan. But now, Joan was being abducted by someone again.
"No clue? Is there no evidence at all at the scene?" Larry asked cruelly.
"Where's Caspian? Caspian!" he hollered after that.
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