The middle-aged man finally got the picture. "Ah? That fast, huh?"
Patricia didn't have time to explain to this dimwit. She rushed into the cave to take Baber out of the dog cage and whisk him away.
Other people wouldn’t have found them so quickly, but Ellinor and Theo could. She needed to find a new hideout, pronto.
Baber continued to cry. He was whimpering and shivering uncontrollably.
Patricia couldn't care less about the child's feelings. She yanked him out, tied him up with a hemp rope, and then called the middle-aged man to carry the child.
The middle-aged man was quite reluctant, but the promised hundred grand from Patricia wasn’t in his hands yet, so he had no choice but to comply.
With Baber on his back, Patricia and her accomplice left the cave. Patricia even purposely left the middle-aged man's phone in the cave, promising to compensate him with a better one.
...
Barren Mountain was far from the city. Theo and Ellinor arrived two hours later; it was past midnight, and there was barely any light around them.
The mountain was desolate and covered in thick shrubs, with no accessible roads for cars.
Ellinor wanted to start climbing the mountain on foot as soon as they got out of the car to look for her son.
However, Theo stopped her in time. "Let's calm down. Searching like this is like trying to find a needle in a haystack."
Calm down?
How could she possibly calm down?!
The thought of Patricia possibly taking out her frustrations on Baber for not being able to have Theo made her feel sick. She had no way of calming down.
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