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CHAPTER NINETY-SEVEN

Author: Alina Vanette
last update Last Updated: 2024-12-27 23:35:20

Until that evening, there was no update on Reynolds's whereabout and it drove Isabel insane.

She could neither eat nor sleep, nor do anything. Her eyes produced more tears than the Niagara waterfall.

Even when Sebastian brought her dinner that night, she refused to touch it, despite all his begging.

"You've got to eat something, Isabel." He pleaded with her, keeping the tray of food he'd asked the chef to make specially for her, near her side.

"You haven't had anything all day."

She neither spoke, nor did she touch the tray of food, despite the aroma that was harassing her nostrils, reminding her how hungry she was.

How could she eat, when she doesn't know the whereabouts of her son, whether he is safe of not?

How can she be at ease, when her son scared witless wherever he was?

There was no appetite to eat anything and there wouldn't be any, until her son returns home to her.

"The police are still searching for him, and I have men combing every nook and cranny of this city, looking
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