"You are the foodie! Why are you laughing? You are the one who married a foodie." Nicole snapped.
Her words made Samuel laugh.
"Just kidding. Now, hurry up. Let's go to the sanatorium."
"Why are we going to the sanatorium?"
Nicole was a little dozy.
"Are you planning to set up a place for us to retire at this age?"
"Are you still asleep? Oh, please. Nicole, wake up!"
Samuel shook Nicole's head twice, almost making her dizzy.
"Samuel, what are you doing?"
"Are you awake?"
"What's wrong with you? Why are you acting so childish? You are just like Tim now."
Nicole felt that Samuel was acting more and more like a child.
She pushed Samuel away, frowning slightly.
Samuel smiled and said, "Well, there is a thing involved Tim. He called and said that Ballard went to
the sanatorium to see Martha. He was afraid that his mother could not take this and would hurt herself.
He wanted us to go and check on her. You know, if it weren't for you, I wouldn't care about this crap.
Are you coming or not? If not, I'll go back to work."
Hearing this, Nicole quickly grabbed Samuel's hand and said, "Yes, yes! I'll go. Why didn't you tell me
earlier?"
"I just thought that you can sleep a little more. And Nicole, you are so enthusiastic about Tim's stuff,
aren't you?"
Samuel said bitterly.
Nicole hugged his head over and gave him a kiss.
"Be good. Don't be jealous. Tim is in Bordeaux. It will take him at least six to seven hours to get back.
Besides, what if something happens to Aunt Martha? This is a life-and-death matter. Let me just
change. I'll be ready soon."
Nicole rushed to the dressing room.
Samuel shook his head with a smile. He touched the place where Nicole had kissed him.
It felt good.
It was as sweet as sugar and warm as a pie.
Samuel went to change his clothes with a foolish smile. After a while, Nicole came down.
"Let's go."
"Samuel, shall we buy Martha some fruit or other presents?"
Nicole asked nervously.
"No need. Martha can't recognize us now. We just need to go over and see if she's fine. Let Tim take
care of the rest when he comes back."
Nicole hesitated,
"Are you sure that's a good idea?"
"Okay, we can buy some fruit."
"Samuel, be serious!"
Nicole finally realized Samuel was skating around.
Samuel shrugged his shoulders and said, "Please, we are going to see if anything is OK, not to visit
your future mother-in-law. Why are you so nervous?"
"Hey! Watch your mouth."
Nicole glared at Samuel before leaving the house with him.
Although Samuel's words were very unpleasant, he still bought some presents on the way and carried
them over.
Nicole found this man never said what he meant.
When they arrived at the sanatorium, they told their names and Tim's orders to the registration, but
found the nurse was extremely flustered.
"Mr. and Mrs. Green, I'm sorry, Martha is missing."
Nicole and Samuel were stunned.
"What do you mean by disappearing?"
Nicole asked.
The nurse explained anxiously, almost crying,
"I have checked if everything is fine after Mr. Tim left. At that time, Martha was still sitting by the
window. But when I returned from the bathroom, she was gone. We did have surveillance cameras
here but didn't see Martha going out of the room. What should I do? Mr. Tim will kill me."
The nurse broke out in tears.
"Wait a minute. You said that Martha didn't leave the room? How are you sure that she didn't leave the
room?"
Samuel quickly asked.
The nurse wiped her tears and said, "We checked the surveillance footage. There were no traces of
Ms. Martha coming out. But how did she disappear from the room? That's impossible!"
"Take us to the surveillance room."
Samuel intuitively found something was wrong.
Nicole followed Samuel and the nurse to the monitoring room.
Video from the surveillance room was still playing.
Samuel walked over, watched from the beginning and found the problem with the surveillance footage.
"Look, the time here doesn't match the time after that. About ten minutes were missing. Unfortunately,
the video was edited. But for the time here, no one could find there was a difference. Martha was
probably taken away. Moreover, the abductor had cut off all of this. Perhaps the person in the
surveillance room knew Martha's whereabouts. Who is on duty during this period? Where is he?"
Hearing Samuel's analysis, the director and the nurse finally figured it out.
"Chuck is on duty today. When I came to check the security tapes, he happened to be in the
bathroom."
The director's words caused Samuel to frown slightly.
"Hurry up and send someone to find him. If I'm right, he is trying to escape."
The director hurriedly sent people to look for Chuck. Unfortunately, they were still a step too late.
"Call the police to arrest Chuck."
The director hurriedly called the police.
However, before the police got there, Chuck died in a car accident.
All clues were broken here.
Nicole frowned tightly.
"It seemed to have been well prepared. But who did all these?"
"Whoever did this, we don't know the first thing about him. We can do nothing but tell Tim about it first."
Samuel sighed.
In the end, they didn't help.
Nicole was a little sad. She took a deep breath and called Tim.
"Tim, listen to me. Please calm down. Samuel and I are at the sanatorium. Unfortunately, we haven't
seen Martha. She's missing."
"What do you mean by missing?"
Tim sounded grimly.
Nicole knew how important Martha was to Tim, but she could do nothing about it.
"When Samuel and I arrived, the nurse said that Martha had never left the room. However, Samuel
found the surveillance video was edited. When we were looking for Chuck who is on duty, he was killed
by a car. There are too many coincidences. We don't know where Martha is now. I'm sorry."
Tim clenched his fists.
"It has nothing to do with you. I'll fly back immediately."
After saying that, Tim hung up the phone.
Nicole looked at Samuel depressingly, "What should we do? He is probably going crazy. He just
experienced a bad breakup and now his mother was missing. How much more blow does the heavens
have to give him?"
"Things will be settled eventually. Don't worry."
"I know. I'm just a little sad."
Nicole leaned against Samuel's embrace and whispered, "What can we do for him?"
"I don't think we have much to contribute. We can only wait for him to come back and deal with it by
himself."
Nicole didn't say anything else and went home with Samuel.
After Tim hung up the phone, he immediately called Ballard.
"Did you do it?"
"What? Tim, watch your attitude. I'm your father!"
Ballard was not satisfied with Tim's attitude of questioning him.
"If you weren't my father, I would have shot you. Was it you? Did you send someone to take my mother
away from the sanatorium? Where did you take her?"
Ballard was stunned.
"Your mother was picked up?"
"Don't pretend. Who else on earth would you be? My mother has been in the sanatorium for all these
years. However, just as you left today, she was missing. If you want to say that it has nothing to do with
you, do you believe it yourself? Let me tell you, Ballard Louis. If anything happens to my mother, I'll get
you back for this!"
Tim hung up the phone.
Ballard, on the other end, was dumbfounded.
'Martha is missing?
How is that possible?
Who took Martha away?
Could it be the one at home?'
Ballard hurriedly got home. As soon as he arrived, he grabbed Mrs. Louis’ wrist, "Did you let someone
take Martha away? You are already Mrs. Louis. I left everything in your charge. Other than that
marriage certificate, what else are you not satisfied with? Martha has gone mad. She is now an old
woman in her later years. Why are you still refusing to let her go? "
Mrs. Louis was a little dizzy from Ballard's shaking.
"What did you say? Why would I take Martha away? I'm not stupid. Your son is simply a devil. If I hurt
his mother, won't he go crazy and get back at me? I don't want to die. I won't do such a stupid thing."
"Not you?"
Ballard was stunned.
"If it weren't for you, who else would have taken Martha away? What did they want to do with Martha?"
Mrs. Louis pushed Ballard away and said angrily, "How do I know? I'm not those people."
Ballard was panicked.
"If it weren't for you, this would be terrible."
"What happened? What the hell is going on?"
Mrs. Louis still didn't understand the severity of this.
Ballard dropped onto the sofa and said, "Over all these years, I have only visited her once and she is
missing. Tim won't believe me. If something happens, what am I gonna tell him?"
"That's your son, not your father! Watch your manners. How disgraceful!"
Angry at the thought, Mrs. Louis simply went upstairs and saw nothing.
However, Ballard could no longer remain calm.
He discharged a lot of people to look for Martha. Unfortunately, Martha seemed to have disappeared
from the world.
When Tim flew back, Samuel had already turned the Seapolis City upside and down but didn't find any
news of Martha.
Nicole searched a lot of places herself. She was worn out. In the end, Samuel forcibly sent her home to
rest.
Tim was back at the night.
He looked resentful, like a demon from the dark. Tim directly returned to the Louis mansion, kicked
open the door, and picked Mrs. Louis up from the bed.
"Where is my mother?"
Tim was like a devil. His scarlet eyes made Mrs. Louis tremble in fear.
"What are you talking about? I don't even know where your mother went?"
"Tim, she really doesn't know. I've already sent someone to look for her. Although there's no news of
your mother, there's a clue. Let go of your aunt first."
Tim's eyes darted towards Ballard.
"What clue? Say it!"
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