Regretting The Wife He Threw Away

Chapter 232

Three days passed, and the search and rescue teams had found nothing. Both the rescue squads and the police had done everything they could.

"We've searched the mountain, the woods, and the entire length of the river downstream. There's nowhere left to check," the team leader reported, his expression grim as he debriefed Cedric Clarke at the rescue base camp.

Earlier that afternoon, Quentin had already taken the rest of the medical staff back to the hospital.

But Cedric Clarke refused to give up hope.

The team leader looked troubled. "In our experience, if no one turns up

downstream, chances are they were buried by the landslide."

"That's not possible..." Cedric shook his head, unwilling to accept it.

"There's one other possibility," the leader offered, "Someone might have found her downstream and taken her away before we got there."

Cedric's face was haggard-he hadn't slept for three days and nights. He set his jaw. "Then widen the search along the river. We keep looking until we find her- alive or... not. If we still find nothing, we dig up that landslide. No one leaves until Stella is found. That's final."

The team leader hesitated, but a job was a job. If the client insisted, he had no choice but to order his team to continue.

It wasn't until the second day after Stella went missing that her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joyner, received the call.

Ableson and Scarlett Joyner rushed straight to the mountains, staying at the site for a day and a night. By the following afternoon, the strain became too much for Scarlett-she collapsed from exhaustion and grief.

for someone to take both Ableson and Scarlett

Lockwood Hospital.

hospitalized, she and James hurried there

entered the hospital and headed straight for

just finished picking up medication for her daughter, Ottilie Kensington. As she turned

with her he looks

know?" Ottilie grumbled, sniffling from her cold. "Let's go,

more allowance these past few months! But if Briony gets herself a well-off boyfriend and the old lady finds out, she'll be furious. And when

just don't say anything!"

from her forever." Melody grabbed Ottilie's hand. "That old woman's always keeping tabs on Briony, even if she pretends not to care!

Ottilie got dragged along, trailing

Scarlett's hospital room, Briony raised

Ableson answered the door.

Briony greeted politely. "I've

nodded and

entered, James following after a brief nod to

room was

and Ottilie crept closer, trying not to draw

Briony, fresh tears welled up. "Bryn, what are we going to do? What will

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