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Tears poured down her face. If no one was coming to save her, she probably would not be able to step out of the house alive.
The old lady gave a call some distance away from the main door. “First Young Lady, I’ve done everything as per your request.” “Alright. Start reducing the temperature tomorrow. I hope… she dies in the house.”
“Don’t worry. By the look of things, she certainly won’t be able to survive for more than four days.”
After Shaun got off from work, he went for a meeting regarding an international financial case at night. Having had some alcohol during the meeting, he felt slightly dizzy.
The moment he switched on the lights after entering the house, Fudge ran to him. She kept meowing while hugging his leg.
“Little one, you missed me so much, huh?”
Shaun rubbed her head gently. After a while, he noticed something wrong with Fudge which he could not figure out until she rubbed her nose against the empty bowl.
Fudge was probably hungry.
Had Cate not fed her?
He immediately poured some cat food for Fudge who seemed to be starving badly.
Shaun went to the room to search for Cate, only to discover that she had not returned. His face darkened.
This woman had been causing endless problems. She was previously admitted to the hospital, and now that she was finally back at his house, she left Fudge in such a state.
She still had not returned although it was already so late.
He took out his phone to give her a call, but her phone was off.
Did something happen to her?
After taking out his phone, Shaun tracked Cate’s location. Fortunately, when he handed the phone to her today, he had turned on location tracking in it for fear that incidents like last night would occur again.
Upon tracking her location, Shaun sent Hadley a message. [Check out this location for me.]
A minute later, Hadley called, “This is the Cox family’s house where Miss Cox’ parents live.” “Got it.”
Shaun hung up furiously.
This woman did not know her place. He had only displayed a hint of kindness and she started taking advantage of him. Just like that, she went home without giving him a call first. What was worse, she had turned off her phone.
Was she under the impression that she did not have to return to his house after bringing back the recording and being forgiven by the Cox family?
What did she take him for? How dare she bite the hand that fed her?!
She had better not come back forever if she had the audacity. He would not care about her anymore even if she was in trouble.
Never would he have expected that Cate could be so heartless. There was no news about her for three solid days. She did not even answer his calls.
What depressed him further was that he did not eat well throughout these three days.
He even visited the restaurant that served the most delicious food in Melbourne as recommended by Chase, yet he found the food unappetizing.
Sometimes, he suspected that something might have happened to Cate. Nevertheless, every time he turned on his phone to check her location, she was always in the Cox family’s house.
Her biological parents could not possibly hurt her. Clearly, she had long since forgotten him.
Throughout the past three days, he was as cold as an iceberg in the office.
When it was time to get off from work, he immediately packed his stuff and left. He then bumped into Chase at the door. “Are you going home to take care of Fudge? Is Cate still not back?”
“Don’t mention this woman anymore.” With an icy expression, Shaun walked forward.
Chase shrugged helplessly. “I had no choice but to ask you since Mireya asked me to find out about Cate. She said that she hasn’t been able to contact her, so she’s worried that something has happened to her.”
“She has always been in the Cox family’s house, hasn’t she?” Shaun stood frozen to the spot. It was understandable that Cate did not call him back since both of them had just met each other not long ago, but Mireya was her best friend.
“Let me call her back.” Chase tried to make a call.
Shaun got down using the elevator without waiting for him.
On his way home, he felt that things were increasingly strange as he thought it over. However, he was afraid that he might just be overthinking and end up poking his nose into Cate’s affairs.
Unexpectedly, he received a call from Chase shortly after he reached home.
‘That’s not quite possible. Just now, Mireya told me that she visited the Cox family. They told her that Cate has gone abroad to relax, but they didn’t provide me with her contact number. Damn, could something have happened to her?”
Shaun frowned. “I don’t think so. After all, she’s the Cox family’s biological daughter.”
“Maybe not. Mireya said that the Cox family is hopelessly biased.”
“Alright. I’ll check it out.” Fretful, Shaun then gave Hadley another call. “Find out where Cate last appeared.” An hour later, Hadley brought him some news.
“Miss Cox went to the Cox family’s house three days ago. Shortly after she entered the house, the Cox family headed to the old house located in Pennington using their car. She’s probably there.”
“Do you mean that she might be imprisoned?” “Very likely. The Cox family would not go there except for their family worship. What’s more, that place is remote and desolate.”
Shaun held his phone firmly. “Come and pick me up. I’m going to visit that place in person.”
Considering that Pennington was a large distance away, Hadley drove for three hours before they reached there.
It was already midnight by then. Only when Shaun got out of the car did he realize that the place was eerily desolate. It was surrounded by mountains, and there was no light.
The old house that belonged to the Cox family was constructed in an enclosed style. From the main door, it seemed that the house was a few decades old.
Shaun knocked on the door, yet there was no response. As such, he climbed over the wall straight away.
The minute he stepped on the ground, a ray of light shone on him.
“Who are you? Why are you barging into the house in the middle of the night?”
Shaun turned around and saw an old lady who was holding a torchlight. “I’m looking for someone. I knocked on the door just now, but you didn’t open it.”
“I’m the only one living here. Get out now.” The old lady gave him a push.
Shaun then pushed her back. He took the torchlight and headed to the two-story house. As he glanced around, he got a shock.
He noticed that all the windows were nailed shut on both levels while the door was locked.
“Hurry up and get out now, or I’m going to call the police.” In a panic, the old lady pushed him even more violently.
“You’d better call the police. Don’t let me catch you imprisoning someone illegally.” Her expression further confirmed his assumption.
He took a big step forward, then kicked the door hard. After a long while, he still failed to kick it open. Upon noticing the ax at the side of the house, he broke one of the windows using it and leaped into the house.
A rotten smell filled his nose. Since there was no electricity in the house, he had to search for Cate room by room. At last, he found her curled up in a corner of the wooden bed.
She was still dressed in the same thin top that he had seen before he left that afternoon. The material of the top was very thin, while the temperature had reduced by ten degrees over the last two days. However, there were not any blankets and pillows on the bed she was sleeping on. There was not even bed linen.