"Even if you want to thank me, you didn't have to call me out this early in the morning, right?"
At the break of dawn, Bonnie sat in the coffee shop owned by her family, yawning continuously. She sipped on her coffee, her eyes blurred, complaining to Luna in a low voice.
Sitting in front of her, Luna smiled faintly. "Of course I'm not asking you out just to thank you." She found the photo Joey Charles sent to her the other day and handed it to Bonnie. "Look."
Bonnie frowned and took the phone, then, her eyes widened immediately. "Isn't this Aura Gibson?"
To investigate her brother, Jason’s disappearance, Bonnie had been conducting follow-up reports on Aura for a long time. In the end, she was even tricked b y Aura and stayed in the psychiatric hospital for a long time instead of Aura.
But...
Joshua sent Aura abroad in the name of furthering her studies and forbade her from returning to Banyan City, right? So why was the photo of Aura taken at the airport in Banyan City?
And...
Why did the little boy whose hand she was holding
look exactly like her two sons?!
"Joey gave this to me yesterday. This boy arrived in Banyan City on the same flight as him, Aura picked him up outside the airport. The photo was taken two days ago, and I asked Nigel to check all the CCTV cameras of all flights and trains that left Banyan City during the last two days and any other exits leading out of the city. There were no signs of Aura and the boy leaving the city."
Bonnie paused. "That means...the two of them are still i n Banyan City?"
Luna nodded silently. "Yes.” She sucked in a deep breath. "I hope you can help me find them."
Initially, when she first received the photo, the first person she thought about was Joshua. She went to him immediately too. After all, Aura and Joshua were intricately involved, and the kid in her hands looked exactly like the children she herself shared with him.
But...
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