"What is it?" Luna furrowed her brow, asking fervently as she placed Joshua's call on speaker mode.
"Anne was indeed kidnapped." Jude let out a sigh and continued, "From the surveillance tapes, a woman in black kidnapped her and smuggled her out from the back door."
Then, he took out a piece of paper from his pocket and handed it to Luna. "The employees found this at the back door."
Luna froze, then took the slip of paper from him.
A row of neat handwriting read, [Don't worry, Ms. Luna, we won't hurt your friend, but there's no guarantee what we'll do if you don't attend the wedding tonight.]
Luna gasped at this.
What was this person trying to do? Did they kidnap Anne just to threaten her to attend Adrian and Jacqueline's wedding?
"I found something from the surveillance tapes too," Joshua said, frowning, when he heard Luna's silence. "I've sent the video to you. According to the tapes, that woman who kidnapped Anne from the back door circled to the restaurant entrance to pick up Jacqueline before leaving."
Joshua's voice was solemn as he continued, "Therefore, we can be sure that Jacqueline was the one who kidnapped Anne. Perhaps her appearance at the restaurant at the same time as you was not a coincidence at all, but planned. Perhaps unbeknown to you, she had been following you since the start."
Joshua propped his chin in his hand as he stared at the surveillance tape. "This woman is far more sneaky than we initially thought."
Neither Luna nor Joshua would ever think Jacqueline would be following them.
Luna had just left the house for a few hours, and Jacqueline could not possibly have stumbled upon them by accident. The most logical explanation for this was that Jacqueline had known about their return and had followed them since they landed at Banyan City Airport.
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