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CHAPTER 80

Author: azalea
last update Last Updated: 2024-10-23 23:52:54

VLADIMIR

"These are all the footage we got, boss," Blaze reported when I got to my office.

I called him last night to get CCTV footage around the area of the gala venue. I had a bad feeling after Yvonne told me she saw her mother. I don't think that's a coincidence.

"I've played this part numerous times. There's nowhere else for her to go aside from this vehicle," he pointed at the screen.

A black van passed the area, covering the woman standing by the street. She vanished at the same time the van drove away. But the van didn't stop to pick her up.

"Did you check other CCTV's?" I asked, still doubtful of the angle he's been getting at.

"Yes, boss," he nodded. "She wasn't caught by any other CCTV around the area."

"Are you telling me, the van dropped her at the same spot where it picked her up?" I frowned.

"That's the only plausible explanation we could come up with," he said. "We checked earlier footage, the same unidentified black van passed by the area two hours before, but there we
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