Regretting The Wife He Threw Away

Chapter 233

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.

been hospitalized, she and

the hospital and headed

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

frowning. "And the man with her he

grumbled, sniffling from her cold. "Let's go, Mom. Why do you even care what

given us more allowance these past few months! But if Briony gets herself a well-off boyfriend and the old lady finds out,

just don't say anything!" Ottilie rolled

silence could keep it from her forever." Melody grabbed Ottilie's hand. "That old woman's always keeping tabs on Briony, even if she pretends

dragged along, trailing behind Briony and

Scarlett's hospital room, Briony raised her hand and

Ableson answered the door.

greeted politely. "I've come to see

out, but he nodded

James following after a brief nod to

room was

closer,

swollen and red from crying. When she saw Briony, fresh tears welled

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