"Yeah, I rember when she first ca ho. She’d agree to anything you asked — so obedient and non-fussy."
"I think the orphanage is a little sketchy," Rosemary’s sixth sense told her. "Is there a possibility that all the children in the orphanage are not ordinary children?"
That assumption took Logan and Taylor by surprise, including Clark, who was also taken aback.
But since her sister started investigating the matter, every guess she had made turned out to be correct. So, Clark took out his phone and said, "I’ll have soone look into it. Let my people handle it."
Rosemary insisted on doing it with her people, as she thought Clark’s might make so noise — but hers were different, all specially trained.
Clark paused, looked at his sister, and trustingly said, "Alright."
Rosemary took out her phone and sent a ssage to Jack, nearly giving him a heart attack.
Ever since he found out that the boss was taking a risk coming to Lidaria, and that Roo had the audacity to trust her without coming along, Jack had been utterly disappointed in Roo. At the sa ti, he was extrely worried — always feeling that the boss was in danger. Finally, he had to sneak into Lidaria.
When he heard his phone beep, he took it out. Seeing that the ssage was from the boss, his face turned pale.
Jones was puzzled by his reaction. "What’s the matter with you? Are you sick?"
"The boss sent a ssage! She needs ! Oh no! Does the boss know we’re here? Is she going to settle scores with us?"
"Really?" Jones was also frightened. "Can I still catch a flight back ho?"
"You don’t care about the boss’ safety?"
"We have you, right? I’m more worried about whether my neck will be wrung by the boss."
"So, you’re just going to let the boss wring my neck alone?" Jack grabbed him. "You’re not going anywhere! If we’re going down, we’re going down together!"
"Stop it, let go! I’ve never been in love. I’ve never experienced the beauty of life."
Jack’s phone vibrated again; it was a question mark sent by the boss.
He wanted to cry but had no tears. He summoned up the courage to unlock his phone, clicked on the ssage — only to find out that the boss wanted him to investigate an orphanage back ho!
He couldn’t believe it. The boss didn’t know they were there!
Why would the boss suddenly make them investigate an orphanage?
Oh my God, he was almost scared to death earlier!
[Don’t worry boss, I’ll get it done!] Jack quickly replied to her.
Seeing that Jack even sent several emojis expressing his love for her, Rosemary resisted the urge to block him, put away her phone, and looked at Taylor and Logan again.
"We should have results in a couple of days."
Taylor and Logan couldn’t believe it — who was that girl who could get results on an orphanage investigation in just two days?
Keep in mind, they had been looking for their daughter for two to three months and had yet to find any leads.
"When will we be able to find Carol?" Taylor was clearly worried; it sounded like their daughter was in a lot of danger.
"But just let us know anything you can," Rosemary said softly. "I believe we can find Carol soon."
Rosemary paused for a while, then continued, "Carol lied to you that she had found her biological parents and was going to live abroad with them. But we checked all the flights in the past year, and there is no record of her leaving the country."
At those words, Logan and Taylor were taken aback.
"I knew Carol couldn’t be so heartless. Sothing must have happened to her," Taylor said. She had been with her daughter for years and had a telepathic connection with her. Ever since Carol ntioned finding her biological parents and leaving them, Taylor had a nagging feeling that sothing wasn’t right — that she was hiding sothing.
Seeing Taylor quietly wiping away her tears, Logan felt a lump in his throat. His voice was slightly hoarse, "I rather hope she really found her real parents, and she’s not in any danger."
If they could, they’d rather have their daughter happy for the rest of her life — even if they could never see her again.
"Your neighbor ntioned that a few months ago, a group of people visited your house. It was raining, but they kept walking around your yard," Rosemary looked up at them.
It was said that after that day, the Earwood family didn’t open their doors for about four or five days. When their neighbors saw them again, they inquired about the situation. The Earwoods simply said that they had relatives visiting, but didn’t elaborate any further.
"That ti..." Logan hesitated, unsure if he should disclose the matter.
"Tell them, they are good people. They really want to help us," Taylor urged.
Eventually, Logan decided to spill the beans. "It was a rainy night. I was asleep when I heard so noise in Carol’s room. At first, I thought I was hearing things. But then, I heard it again — and this ti, Taylor heard it too. We both thought Carol had co back.
We were so excited that we got up to check it out. However, the storm was so loud that it made us nervous. The door to Carol’s room wasn’t fully closed. I saw two or three people sneaking around, going through her stuff. At the ti, I thought we had a break-in. I held Taylor’s hand, and we tiptoed downstairs, hoping to ask the neighbors for help. But to our surprise, there were also people in our living room, rummaging through our things. Once we got down there, we walked right into their hands.
They saw us, rushed over, and we got hurt while resisting. Afterward, we sohow managed to escape to the yard — but they caught us and knocked us out."
Rosemary nodded in understanding. No wonder there were so many blood stains on the living room floor and a few in the yard. As she had suspected earlier, Mr. and Mrs. Earwood had also been in danger.
"When we woke up, we were tied up. There were a few people in the living room, guarding us. They were all wearing black masks and black clothes, so we couldn’t see their faces clearly. They kept asking us the sa question over and over again — Where is Carol? But we had no idea where she was.
At first, we thought Carol had been targeted by so gang because she’s young and pretty. But as ti went on, we realized things weren’t that simple."
Rosemary then asked, "How long did they keep you?"
"Three days," Logan replied truthfully.
"Did they ntion anything else other than Carol?"
"No," Logan recalled. "They wouldn’t answer any questions we asked. Oh — they also went through our cell phones, looking at our chat history. It seed like they wanted to know if we had been in contact with Carol privately. They even took pictures of us injured and sent them to Carol. We think they were using us as bait to lure Carol out."
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