"Miss Alaina, you're back?" Leola didn't sleep. When she saw Alaina coming back, she rushed to the door and asked with concern, "Miss Alaina, where did you go? You ran so fast when you went out, and you didn't tell me where you were going. I was so worried."
"I didn't know your phone number, so I had to call Mr. Bai..."
Hearing this, Adele trembled uncontrollably and clenched both of her hands into fists.
"However, I couldn't get through to Mr. Bai. I don't know if he was busy at that time."
Adele breathed a sigh of relief and slowly loosened her fists.
"Miss Alaina, have you eaten yet? I didn't know when you would come back, so I kept the food for you. If you haven't had your meal, I'll heat it up for you now." "There's no need." Adele said softly. She looked in the direction of the living room and then asked, "Isaac... Well, hasn't Mr. Bai come back?" God knew how much courage she had screwed up to ask this question.
However, she had to ask.
"Mr. Bai may be busy. He hasn't come back yet."
Adele let out a sigh of relief temporarily and nodded gently. "I'll... go to rest."
As soon as she returned to her room, she fell straight on the bed. She was too tired. She had walked for a very long time and had been worried for a whole day. She was physically and emotionally exhausted.
However, she could not fall asleep.
Although she had found Arvis, she was still being tortured by fear and worry, because she did not know what would happen to her when Issac came back.
Worried and uneasy, she felt that every second appeared like a year in length.
She was back, and Arvis should be back home, right?
She didn't know how long she had waited in deep anxiety. When her phone rang, she almost jumped up from the bed.
Looking at the caller ID, she swallowed hard and then comforted herself before answering the phone call.
"Hello, Mrs. Liu..."
"Alaina, I've taken Arvis home." Aria said on the phone, "I cooked for him, but he didn't want to eat. He said that he wasn't hungry. Later I asked him about it carefully, and he said that the man had bought him something to eat."
Hearing Isaac's name, Adele became even more nervous. She held the phone with more strength unconsciously and grabbed the sheets tightly with the other hand.
After a while, she asked in a trembling voice, "Mrs. Liu... did you say anything in the police station?"
"No. You told me not to mention you, didn't you? So I didn't mention your name."
"Then... did Arvis say anything? What's more, what... did that man say?"
As soon as she asked these two questions, she couldn't help but close her eyes tightly, waiting for Aria to answer her nervously.
At this moment, she was like a prisoner who was about to be sentenced to death. She was jittery and hoped that a miracle could happen.
"No." Aria replied. "Arvis stayed with him at that time. I don't know what they said, and I couldn't ask much, because I was afraid that it would be counterproductive. However, when I went to pick up Arvis, the man didn't ask much. He only asked me to take good care of Arvis in the future and not to let him run away again."
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