Smart Girl
“Really? You will do that?”
“If you call your daddy now, then I will.”
Zayden thought about it and hurried toward Sally to borrow her phone.
“Sally, can I please use your phone? Both our smartwatches had fallen into the reservoir while we were
playing with our water guns. I just want to call my daddy and tell him about it.”
Sally walked toward the reservoir. True enough, both their smartwatches were lying inside. It was then
that she believed Zayden.
These two must have been so excited in their game for this to happen.
“Do you want to phone your daddy? What do you want to tell him?”
“I just want to let him know that it was Joy who dropped my smartwatch into the reservoir. If not, I will
be spanked when I get home.”
Sally pondered on it. “All right. Do you know your daddy’s phone number?”
“Yes. I memorize both my daddy’s and mommy’s phone numbers by heart. All I need is your phone.”
Sally nodded and gave her phone to Zayden.
“Thank you.”
Zayden took the phone and went looking for Joy, who was nearby. He dialed his daddy’s number from
his memory.
“Daddy, Joy dropped my smartwatch into the reservoir. She said she will compensate me with an
identical one.”
“Reservoir? What reservoir?” Davin was surprised to hear that.
Zayden proceeded to explain to his father.
Once Davin understood the whole situation, he told his son, “There’s no need for Joy to compensate
you. I will buy a new one for you.”
“No. I want Joy to compensate me for it.”
“Uncle Davin, it was my fault. I will get a replacement for him.”
“All right then. If you so insist, go ahead. One smartwatch isn’t going to hurt your daddy’s pocket
anyway.”
Once they hung up the phone, Zayden felt very happy because Joy had promised to compensate him
for his smartwatch.
Suddenly, Joy suggested, “Zayden, your smartwatch looks quite special. Why don’t you ask Sally to
help you retrieve it from the reservoir? That way, I will be able to buy the exact same model for you.”
“Okay.”
“Let me use Sally’s phone for a while. I also want to call my daddy.”
Zayden was more worried about his smartwatch, and so he handed the phone to Joy before making his
way to Sally.
Sally took one look at the reservoir and knew it was impossible to retrieve the smartwatch by hand.
“Let me get somebody to help us take the smartwatch out.”
“Sure.”
Once Sally was nowhere near her, Joy scrolled through the contact list on Sally’s phone and began
taking multiple screenshots.
Finally, she sent a voice message to Juan together with the screenshots through WhatsApp. Juan, it’s
Joy here. I am using Sally’s phone and sending you these without her knowledge. See if anything looks
suspicious. Mommy’s kidnapper might have called Sally.
After which, Joy deleted the entire chat history.
Without wasting any time, she immediately searched for Evan’s number and dialed her daddy.
When Juan saw the pictures, he was stunned. After listening to Joy’s voice message, he was
astounded beyond his imagination. Juan did not expect his sister to pull off such a stunt on her first trip
out with Sally. What a smart girl.
Juan scanned Sally’s call logs and suddenly recalled the listening device that Kyle had planted in her
room. In the recording that he had heard, Juan wondered who Sally had been talking to on the phone.
Does the person have anything to do with Mommy’s disappearance?
Without further delay, Juan forwarded Sally’s call logs to Kyle so that the latter could check against the
timing of the recording and determine the exact phone number. It would be much easier to investigate
once they had narrowed down their suspects.
Kyle was equally surprised when he received the WhatsApp message from Juan.
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