He would never believe that! James did not keep provoking him just then, and assured him, “Look, I misspoke.Maybe Lulu is just held against her will.The key is Ember, so—”
Before he could finish, however, Zachary had already run out of the room.
“Hey!”
James tried to stop him, but Zachary was already gone.
James turned toward Diarmuid just then.
“Sir?”
He was worried Zachary would do something rash and cause irreversible damage.
“Leave him be,” Diarmuid said.
He would not have gotten involved at all if not for Abigail.
“He’s not thinking straight.They would see him coming from miles away, “
James pointed out.
“It might not be all bad, since he might drive his real enemies into the open.Also, don’t contact me if it’s unimportant,” Diarmuid said, picking up his jacket and starting to leave.
He wanted to leave for a while now, but he would have nothing for Abigail without at least doing what she asked, so he simply braced himself and waited.
He could not wait to return to Abigail—why would he even waste more time here?! Arriving outside Abigail’s hotel room, Diarmuid knocked on the door but no one answered.He tried again, but it was still quiet inside.
Heading to the front desk, he asked, “Could you call Room 508 to see if the guest is in there?”
The receptionist did so, and replied, “I’m afraid they must be away. at Diarmuid frowned.
It was already very late—where else could Abigail be? “What about Room 506 and 507?”
“Sorry, sir,” the receptionist replied.
The waitress who saw Abigail faint noticed them just as she was about to leave work.She asked tentatively, “Is the person you’re looking for a pregnant lady?”
“Yeah,” Diarmuid replied.
“She fainted, but the two foreigners who were with her rushed her to the hospital,” the waitress told him.
Fainted? Diarmuid panicked right then.
“Which hospital did they go to?”
The waitress shook her head.
“I don’t know.”
With that, Diarmuid hurried outside, calling James as he did.
“Find out which hospital Abigail has been admitted to!”
On the other end, James was caught dumbstruck.
Diarmuid himself had just told James not to call him if it was not important, and he was calling him already? Also, Abigail was sent to the hospital? She was not due yet, was she? Nonetheless, he was too afraid to ask since Diarmuid sounded very anxious, and he quickly replied instead, “I’ll find out what I can.”
Once Diarmuid hung up, Diarmuid drove straight to the nearest hospital to start looking.
For some reason, he was exceedingly flustered, paranoid that something terrible would happen to her.
It had been a long awaited reunion, and he did not even have the time to get a good look at her, let alone sit down and have a heart to heart.
He had so much to tell her, and he did not manage to tell her that he missed her.
He wanted to tell her that he read Yvaine Lynd’s letter, that he knew everything — that he was thankful for what she did.
Arriving at the nearest hospital, he quickly parked his car and headed inside.
However, there were too many people there, so he had to make calls and pull some strings to get the front desk to look for Abigail.
There were no records of Abigail Bernstein or Jane Tanner, just as James called him.
“Sir, there’s no record of her being admitted to any hospitals…not even with her alias.”
Diarmuid finally realized that something was out of place.
After clearing the air with her, she had no reason to run off so quickly.
He quickly told James to check the hotel again and he rushed back as well.
They were going to have to find any clues there.
Diarmuid arrived first, so he asked security to show him the tapes—it was customary of hotels to equip cameras.
From the footage, Diarmuid clearly saw Abigail entering Dr.Pitt’s room before heading out together to dinner at the hotel restaurant.
While they ate, Abigail appeared to be taken ill and soon fainted.
Dr.Kramer then carried her off.
The footage was clear, but there was no voice recording—they could not tell what they were saying.
James rushed to the scene just then, and he immediately sensed the gravity of the situation due to Diarmuid’s anxiety.
“What happened? “She’s gone,” Diarmuid said, his eyes still on the footage.
“Find someone who can lip-read.We need to know what they are saying.”
James almost wobbled when he heard that Abigail went missing again.
Did she run away again? Gosh, they had just found her again less than 24 hours ago! Even so, he quickly left — regardless of what happened, he must do what Diarmuid told immediately, even as he hoped that this was a misunderstanding.
Who knew? Maybe Abigail did not run away and had to leave because of something urgent, and would be back after one night.
He made call after call, but soon found a lip-reader and brought her to the hotel in under an hour.
While he led the lip-reader to the security room, Diarmuid asked the hotel to call in the waitress who had spoken to him before and questioned her about Abigail.
The waitress was quaking in her boots.
She was just being helpful, but she had the feeling she got herself caught in a serious mess…
Until Diarmuid gestured for James to smack a stack of dollar bills on the table.
“What happened to the pregnant lady? Tell me what you saw.
Tell me everything without messing up, and this is yours.”
The waitress saw that there must be five grand in that stack of bills, which was more than twice her monthly salary! Feeling thrilled, she quickly said, “They were having dinner at the restaurant in the evening, and I think the pregnant woman must have been feeling ill and was going to return to her room.However, she suddenly dropped to a crouch and soon fell on the floor, so I tried to help, but the foreigners who were eating with her carried her, saying that they would take her to the hospital.I didn’t follow since I was leaving work soon enough, and that’s all I know.”
Her statement matched everything they saw on the security footage.
Now, they could only wait for the lip-reader to decipher Abigail’s conversation with her colleagues.
Later, James arrived and handed Diarmuid the script completed by the lip-reader.
“It’s done.”
[When did Hotmesh publish the data?]
[Didn’t you check your phone?]
[We only found out after we were called about it.I mean, we are the leading research center for cardiovascular diseases, but Hotmesh somehow beat us to publish that data.What is that if not a slap on our collective faces? Can we even maintain our reputation from now on?] [Yeah.] [Is that milk…spiked?]
[You catch on quick.Yes, I spiked it—the caller just now insisted that I bring you in.The investigation concluded that you were the one who stole our data, and if I don’t bring you in, my whole career would be over.This is my only option if I don’t want to be fired before my retirement.]
[Give up already.I knew you’re sharp, so I kept the dosage at a level where you’d never notice until you lost consciousness completely.]
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
Loredana’s father left the family for his mistress, leaving them to fend for themselves abroad. When life was at its toughest, her father showed up with “good news” after 8 years of absence: To marry off Loredana to a paralyzed son of the wealthy Mendelsohn family.
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