The Indifferent Ex-Husband: Heartstrings in the Mall of Fate novel Chapter 313

Grace only realized Theresa was missing after waking up from her lunch break, and it totally freaked her out.

"Theresa." She called out for her in a panic, but no one answered.

Frantically, Grace pushed open the bedroom door, calling Theresa's name as she searched everywhere, but there was no sign of her.

From Sophia's room to the living room, then to the kitchen, the washroom, and the balcony, she scoured every corner without a trace, and not a peep from Theresa.

Grace was so scared she nearly collapsed on the floor.

Shaking like a leaf, she whipped out her phone and pulled up the surveillance footage.

On the screen, she saw Theresa toddling out with her bottle bag in tow. But the footage only showed her lingering in front of the elevator before she vanished without a trace.

In a flurry, Grace dashed to the property management to get them to check the elevator surveillance.

When the property folks heard a kid was missing, they freaked out too and quickly fired up the elevator cam. But they found nothing.

They also called the on-duty security guards, but none of them had seen a little girl going out alone.

The property team got the security crew on a search mission around the complex and even blasted out a missing person alert in the residents' group chat, but no one spotted Theresa.

Grace was so terrified she could barely move, close to bursting into tears, yet she didn't dare waste time and immediately dialed Sophia's number, but she was in the middle of a call.

Grace, now even more panicked, called Susan.

Susan was waiting for an interview and casually picked up, not expecting to hear that Theresa had disappeared. Shocked, she spun on her heel and bolted, telling Grace to call the cops while she tried reaching Sophia, not giving a hoot about the interview anymore.

But Susan couldn't reach Sophia either, her phone was still in the middle of a call.

With no other choice, Susan left a message for Sophia, "Theresa's missing."

Sophia didn't see Susan's message, because she was on a call with Daniel.

Right as she was about to head into a meeting, Daniel had suddenly called her.

At noon, Sophia had given him such a talking-to that totally pissed him off, and he totally forgetting to probe further into her connection with that little girl.

Later, when he wanted to dig deeper, the bodyguard he'd sent off had already come back.

Daniel knew that bodyguard was Brandon's man, supposedly there for his protection, but they both knew the real reason behind it.

He'd confronted Brandon about the bodyguard, but to no avail.