Michelle was worried sick and looked around for each corner, any dark alleys, and also she began showing a picture of her daughter to all the strangers that she passed through.“Did you see this kid? She’s with a nanny, she’s wearing a blue uniform…” no one bothered to listen to Michelle, and she started losing faith. But in the sea of the crowd, she thought she saw Marsha. Michelle then started running toward that kid, and she bumped a lot of people.“Hey, lady! Watch out where you’re walking!” a man shouted as she bumped into him that, make the old guy lose his balance. Michelle didn’t even apologize, and she went on running, and as soon as she reached for that kid, a lady then went in front of her.“Belinda, where are you going?” the old lady then look Michelle.“Ma, do you know her?” the kid that she thought was Marsha uttered.“I’m so sorry, and I thought she’s my child…” Michelle then bowed her head and went on and looked for Marsha. She was unconsciously walking toward the stre
MICHELLE burst into tears and tossed the phone on the couch.The entire situation was making her lose her mind, and to know that Marsha was in the hands of someone who had an ulterior motive made the dread crawl over her skin and almost slowly kill her.Ethan grabbed Michelle’s arm, pulling her around and engulfing her in a hug. Michelle hugged him as she cried in great despair."What are we going to do now?" she asked, hopeless and worried. "What if Anna hurt our daughter? I swear I’m going to die if she has done something that will harm Marsha! I can’t allow it, Ethan. We just can’t!"Ethan pressed his lips to her forehead as he rubbed her back to calm her down."We will find them. I promise you. We are going to save Marsha. Calm down, Mich," he said, trying to soothe her.However, Michelle could hardly find a way to calm herself. Marsha, her precious daughter, might be scared at that moment. Her daughter tended to cry a lot if she hadn’t seen her parents for a long time. The though
MICHELLE was completely shocked.Her hand trembled as she gave the papers to Ethan so he could see it for himself. When Ethan took it and read it, his eyes narrowed in confusion.“Who is this woman? This is not Anna,” he told the cops and looked at them with a questioning look. “This is an old woman. Anna is still in her mid-20’s!”One of the cops tilted his head and gave them an empathetic look.“That’s the issue here, Sir. We have confirmed with the agency that Anna Peterson is a fifty-year-old nanny. She was the one who was chosen to work for your daughter, not the woman in the picture you provided. The agency had no idea who that woman was. They have been trying to call Anna Peterson for weeks and all they were getting were text messages saying that she couldn’t accept calls due to her busy working schedule in your family.”Michelle could hardly process the information she just heard and only looked at the cops in disbelief.But when it sank in, she gasped loudly. To say that she
“HI, do you happen to see this kid in the picture?”Michelle showed Marsha’s picture to the old woman who was sitting on the bench in the market, with high hopes that she would get a different answer this time after asking so many people.The old woman adjusted her eyeglasses and took a closer look at the picture. Her lips pursed before she shook her head. “I apologize, but I didn’t see that kid around here.”“T-Thank you,” Michelle stuttered as she felt the lump building inside her throat.“Is she your child?” asked the old woman curiously.Michelle nodded. “Y-Yeah, she’s missing and we’ve been trying our best to find her.”“Oh, poor girl. I hope you find her soon.” The old woman held her hand and squeezed it. “Don’t give up. Your child needs you.”Michelle had no idea what she was going to say. The past couple of days had been rough for her, and hearing those words from the person she didn’t know was something she never expected. In the end, she nodded her head, and spun around, gla
HER EYES widened, her lips separating slightly as she was completely shocked at what she heard.Michelle had been wondering who was to blame for her accident at the ski resort, or if it was truly an accident that no one wanted to happen.However, it was all planned.The fraud Anna Peterson, who taught her how to ski and smiled at her in a friendly way, was the one who harmed her that day. That woman almost killed her without her knowledge!Michelle’s body started to tremble, both in fury and fear. She could not believe she let a lunatic woman stay in their home and take care of her daughter. She could not believe that she slept in the same house with a woman who had such criminal thoughts swirling inside her head. Anna made them look foolish and manipulated them like freaking puppets!“I will never forgive you…” Michelle stated firmly, her teeth gritting so hard that her jaw ached. “I will never let this slide, bitch… I swear. You are going to hell after this!”Anna laughed once again
THEY RECEIVED two phone calls from the police since they went to where Anna and Marsha were. One that informed them that the police were on their way to the ski resort in Grindelwald and the other that said they were going to raid the entire area.Michelle paced back and forth in the living room, biting her fingernails as she was anxious about the operation. Anna was with their five-year-old daughter who had no idea that she was kidnapped, and Michelle knew that Marsha would freak out once the police took action to arrest her lunatic nanny. Her little girl would be terrified, or worse, traumatized.Her heart pounded aggressively inside her chest, and her insides seemingly ran out of air because of the anxiety that was consuming her.It had been almost an hour since the police last called, and her patience was getting thinner.“Why aren’t they calling us yet?” she asked Ethan, who was seated on the couch and looking at the phone resting on the center table. Even though his eyes were fo
ETHAN and Michelle wasted no time in booking a flight back to the United States that night. The case was forwarded to the U.S. police and they’d be helping them from now on to arrest the woman, whose name was Ellaine Suarez.Ethan coordinated with Andrew, who used his connections to secure the airport where Ellaine and Marsha were supposed to land in a few hours. He wanted it to be as discreet as possible, knowing that Ellaine had an anger issue and could harm Marsha if things did not go to her plan.When they finally landed, they were welcomed by Andrew and Megan. Michelle burst into tears when Megan pulled her into a hug. The last few days had been torture for her, and it would continue as long as Ellaine wasn’t arrested and Marsha wasn’t saved.Ethan and Andrew proceeded with the operation..."They should already have landed a couple of hours ago," Ethan told Andrew as they approached the police, who were disguised as normal civilians.Ethan was confused as to why there was no upda
MICHELLE’S body went still as the police, Andrew and her husband scanned all the CCTV footage in front of her. She couldn’t breathe properly while her eyes focused on the multiple monitors before her, trying to find her daughter and Ellaine.Her stomach twitched in anxiety. It had been hours since she spoke with that woman, and yet Ellaine’s furious voice still lingered in her mind. The woman was totally enraged when she spoke with her on the phone, and she couldn’t imagine what an enraged, mentally unstable woman could do to her daughter."Do you happen to know the color of their clothes, Sir?""No," Ethan answered in frustration. "They are on the run. But I know my daughter’s body frame. I should be able to recognize her.""Please prepare the CCTV footage of the basement too," the U.S. cop requested.Michelle sucked in a deep breath. Her eyes checked every CCTV footage, hoping one of them could give them a hint about Marsha. Her poor little daughter must be really scared right now,