“Thank you!” the woman replied happily.
Naomi followed after the woman. When the woman turned her body around, a hint of coldness flashed
across her eyes.
After half an hour later, Ryleigh finally got the coffee. However, when she came back, Naomi was
nowhere to be found.
She looked around, and then she put the coffee down. She pulled her phone out and made a call to
Naomi.
However, Naomi did not pick up her call. She called her again, and this time, it showed that her phone
had been switched off.
Ryleigh looked at her phone and fell into contemplation. She wondered why Naomi would switch off her
phone.
‘It’s impossible that Naomi would go away without telling me anything. Could it be that something has
happened to her?’
When the thought surfaced in her mind, she took the coffee and went to look for Naomi.
Ryleigh ran from level two to the restroom on level three, but she still couldn’t find Naomi. She tried to
call her several times, yet her phone was still switched off.
She was panicking more and more as the bad feeling was getting stronger in her stomach pit. She ran
here and there in an attempt to look for Naomi but to no avail. She forced herself to calm down, thought
of someone, and made a call to him.
When the person picked up the call, she hastily said, her voice filled with sobs,”
Louis…
Louis was checking a document, and he was stunned when he heard Ryleigh’s sobbing voice. He
frowned slightly and asked, “What happened?”
“Naomi… I can’t find Naomi. Help me. I… asked her to hang out with me today…” She was
whimpering, and her voice was shaking
Louis frowned even deeper, and he said.” Calm down, Ryleigh. Tell me what is going on first.”
As he listened to Ryleigh, he put the document down, rose to his feet, and took his car key.
“You wait for me in the shopping mall. I’ll be there right away.”
Ryleigh waited anxiously on the bench in the mall. When Louis appeared, she pounced at him and
wrapped her arms around his body.
Louis allowed her to hug him as he patted her back gently.
“Alright, alright. I’m here. Let’s go check the surveillance recording.”
“Okay,” she said with a sob.
After Louis talked to the manager, the manager brought them to the monitoring room. Soon, they saw
that Naomi went away with a masked woman after talking to her.
Louis pointed at the screen and asked, “Can you zoom in here?”
The security guard zoomed into the screen. Inside the recording, the masked woman had borrowed
Naomi’s phone. After that, she said something to Naomi, and Naomi went away with her after a short
hesitation.
The woman brought Naomi into the emergency exit on level three according to the surveillance
recording. However, Naomi did not come out since then, and they surmised that Naomi and the woman
had left through the emergency exit.
Louis remained calm and asked, “Can we check all the surveillance recordings for the car park and the
side door?”
The security guard did as he was told, and they soon saw that Naomi was brought into a car by
someone. Ryleigh grabbed Louis’ hand tightly, and her face turned pale.
“Oh no, Naomi… She has been taken away!”
The security guard frowned and said, “It has been about 50 minutes. If she was taken away, I think you
guys should call the police.There’s a possibility that you can still catch up to them.”
Louis got the surveillance recording from the security guard and brought Ryleigh away from the
monitoring room.
Ryleigh couldn’t hold herself back anymore when they entered their car and dissolved into tears. She
was trembling, and her voice was filled with fear.
“What should we do? This is all my fault. I shouldn’t have left her alone and gone to buy coffee…”
Louis made a call to Helios and grabbed her into his arms to comfort her.
“Don’t worry. We’ll find a way to save her.”
Inside a roughcast house in the suburbs…
Two dogs were barking and baring their teeth outside of the house.
Naomi’s cries could be heard from the house. Three men pinned her on the floor, and one of them was
tearing her clothes off. She tried to fight back, and her eyes were filled with despair.
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