"Who's looking after who right now!" Mike teased. "How is your investigation coming along? Have you gotten any evidence yet?"
"I've gotten Juliet's phone, I've also got her sim card." Elliot recounted what he did these past few days. "But it's a pity I didn't find any leads on Ivy. Juliet seemed to have the maturity and meticulousness of someone beyond her age."
"What on earth is she thinking? She bought other people's children, yet she doesn't return the child to them. Technically speaking, she did not seem to be the type of person who would torture children. Raising children takes up a lot of money! Didn't that burden scare her?"
"The rich and poor both have their ways of raising children. With the poor, as long as the child didn't starve to death that would be enough." When Elliot found out that it had been Juliet who had purchased Ivy, the worry he felt lessened.
From what he understood of Juliet, she was not the type that would mistreat a child.
"Juliet went to college in Aryadelle. I suspect that she had brought Ivy with her to Aryadelle as well. Ivy has constantly been under our noses. I have just never been aware of it." Elliot voiced out his speculations.
"Didn't you spend a lot of money hiring an internationally renowned detective? Such an amazing detective, yet they didn't realize that Ivy was right under their noses?" Mike laughed. "Spending so much money with no results, how amazing!"
"Mr. Mike, stop poking fun at my boss. He has spent money and time looking for Ivy, and he must be extremely sad about it," the bodyguard said, heartbroken.
"I know! I'm sad that Ivy is missing. But I'm reminding him to not get cheated out of as much money again by hiring another "famous detective". I'm telling him to look at things in a different way," said Mike.
"I didn't hire a single detective," Elliot said, "I hired many detectives to look for Ivy. I even sent Ivy's photo to all the surveillance systems around the country…"
"Aryadelle is huge. It's going to be hard to look for a small child." The bodyguard spoke for Elliot. "Not all children have been registered in the country's system. Juliet is a Ylorean, perhaps she might have registered Ivy in Ylore! It's really hard to find a moving person."
"You can stop defending him. Avery's not blaming him. He won't lose out on anything even if I blame him. Just do your best to find her!" Mike said. "Perhaps one day she might even appear on her own."
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