Falling in Love With A One-Night Stand

498 Where Has He Gone?

In the bedroom, Jasper woke up after a while. His eyes hadn't adjusted to the darkness yet, but he was already feeling sad and self-conscious. Then he got out of bed, lifted the blanket, and went into the bathroom.

With a "click" sound, he turned on the light in the bathroom and placed one hand in front of the mirror. Seeing how haggard and tired he looked in the mirror, Jasper punched himself in the mirror. The next moment, his blood stained the mirror, which shattered into pieces. Immediately following that, he turned on the shower and tried to wash everything away.

At the same time, Isabella and Sean took a taxi back to school. Sean looked back at her from time to time to observe her expression. He noticed Isabella was acting strangely after she left the house, but he had no idea what had happened.

"You smell like alcohol." Eventually, Sean decided to ask the question that had been bothering him the most.

Jasper was drunk, so I helped him to the bedroom. He reeked of booze." Isabella didn't mind talking to Sean about it though she was exhausted. Later, as if lost in thought, she turned her head out the window. Sean knew she was tired, so he didn't say anything else. He gripped her hand tightly and followed her gaze out the window.

The next morning, Jasper awoke early and called Liam to pick him up. 497 Where Has He Gone? nal Before leaving, he packed up his bags and asked the maid to tell Isabella that he wouldn't be home for a while and that he was too busy with business affairs. So, he would stay in his downtown apartment for a while and would not return home anytime soon.

After getting into the car, Jasper started to look at his laptop. Liam, who was focused on driving, asked, "Why are there so many police cars around here? Is there something wrong?"

"Sometimes, curiosity gets you in trouble," Jasper said, raising his eyebrows.

Liam realized he had asked the wrong question and quickly shut up.

Half an hour before the senior management meeting, they arrived at the office. Liam walked into Jasper's office, a pile of files in his arms, and briefed him on the meeting's basic outline and the necessary details. When Jasper's phone rang, Liam was just halfway through his speech.

Jasper frowned as soon as he received the call. "Liam, go back to my house and pick up Gary," he said.

"Huh?" Liam was feeling a little overwhelmed after finishing the first bullet point. He hadn't expected Jasper to ask him to do something unrelated to this important meeting. Therefore, he became perplexed and even doubted whether Jasper had heard what he had just said. He didn't dare to say anything about it, though. So he closed the file, nodded, and then got ready to leave.

"Putt here," Jasper said as he reached for the file.

"Okay." Before leaving, Liam placed the file on the coffee table in front of Jasper.

Jasper had just moved his company to Birmingham, so he had a lot to deal with these days. It was a tough and tedious task, he needed to be 497 Where Has He Gone? - extra focused asa result. Several minutes later, Jasper got up and paced to the window, looking down from the tenth floor at the entire bustling city. He was at the city's financial and commercial center, and he could see the Gabriel Group office building was two streets away.

Years ago, he went to college in the United States and stayed there after graduating, Back then, he had never imagined he'd return to England one day. After all, things did change. When he got back to England, he remembered what he had encountered here before.

At the thought of that, he felt a tinging sensation on his right hand, reminding him of what had happened between Isabella and him the night before. Still, he couldn't figure out why he remembered something from twenty years ago when he pressed Isabella under him last night. He couldn't even tell the difference between Lily and Isabella in his daze. Thinking about what had happened before, he got a headache.

"The meeting is about to begin, Mr. Thomas." Someone knocked on the door, forcing Jasper to come to his senses. He then calmed down and left his office.

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"I am opposed to transferring all the resources we have in America to the UK, and I believe we can consolidate our resources. The UK market may not be as large as the US market, and our technical capabilities are limited. This is not only a big risk to take, but we might not be able to make a profit. As a result, I don't understand your decision," One of the employees said to Jasper.

Jasper responded seriously, "I am not relocating resources from the United States, but rather developing a new market here. In other words, I

gave up all my assets and interests in New York and transferred them to my 497 Where Has He Gone? wall ex-wife. You have the option of returning to New York or staying here with me. Of course, it would be best for you to stay. I am confident that I can build a whole new group within five years."

When Jasper finished his words, the room was deafeningly quiet. "I hope you will consider it carefully," he said before he left the room.

As Jasper left the conference room, Liam came running up to him, saying, "Mr. Thomas, the maid said Gary is missing."

"What?!"

Originally, Isabella had decided not to return home this weekend because she was afraid of running into Jasper again after what had happened the night before. She didn't expect Wendy to call her first thing in the morning and tell her that Gary had gone missing, Hearing that, her mind went blank, and she returned home right away.

When she arrived home, she was surprised to find that the police had cordoned off the entire estate, including the foot of the hill. Later, when she entered the living room, she discovered many police officers sitting on the couch. Among them, Jasper was sitting on a single couch across from Ryan, and they both seemed helpless.

"I can't find the location of Ada's phone now, and I can't even confirm whether she's still on the mountain," Ryan stared at the laptop screen on the coffee table and said.

"Unfortunately, if her phone is turned off, we have no way of locating her. Damnit, I should've seen it coming. Ada's phone must've been out of power as she's out there in the mountain for days," Frowning, Jasper said in a regretful tone.

Ryan scratched his brow, leaned back, and asked, "So, all we can do now is wait for her to turn on her phone?" 497 Where Has He Gone? nal

"She hasn't yet left Birmingham, so she'll be looking for someone to take her away. She'll find a way to charge and turn on her phone."

Ryan nodded. At that moment, Isabella rushed in and interrupted them, asking, "So, she took Gary away?"

Ryan did not deny it but simply replied, "This morning, the surveillance caught Gary walking to the back of the hill. There's a hole in the fence, and he escaped through it. There is no surveillance in that area, and we don't know if Ada finds him or not."

When Isabella heard this, she got a headache, and her body wobbled as if she was about to fall. Seeing that, a maid ran up behind her and held her shoulders.

Before Isabella could speak, Jasper said gently, "Isabella, you should go upstairs and rest. I'll tell you if there is any new information."

"No, I want to help you find Gary, "Isabella seemed determined and tried her best to calm down. She thought to herself, Gary has already suffered a lot when he was in the welfare house. I can't bear to watch him suffer again. Ada is a dangerous woman and she's insane. God knows what she will do to Gary when she catches him?!

"Rest assured, Isabella. I asked a friend to post an arrest notice online. Someone on the Internet will provide clues as long as Ada is seen in public," Ryan said.

At the same time, the cops were still searching the hills and the surrounding area. In the afternoon, the location Ryan's laptop screen flashed again, and it indicated that Ada was inside a mall downtown.

A group of plainclothes officers immediately went there. As the rest of the group rushed there, Isabella went with them as well.

The car stopped near the mall. After getting out of the car, plainclothes officers quickly and expertly took up positions at various 497 Where Has He Gone? nal points and passed messages back and forth. Listening to Ryan's instructions from their headsets, they approached their target slowly.

They were dressed up as mall cleaners, cafe clerks, or customers. Ryan sat in a cafe on the third floor and pretended to be a college student writing a paper there. "You two have no professional training, so ac like you're shopping. Pretend to be Isabella's father, Jasper. Don't act too conspicuous," Ryan said.

What do you mean by "pretending to be father and daughter'; Ryan? Isabella and I are already father and daughter. Thinking of that, Jasper said nothing. He was waiting in line at the cafe's door to buy a cake for Isabella. After buying the cake, he returned to the cafe and placed it in front of Isabella.

Isabella was feeling down and wasn't in the mood for cakes. She was irritated when she noticed Jasper was calm as if nothing significant seemed to have happened.

Jasper sat across from her, unpacked the cake box, and pushed it in front of her once more. He was as cool and collected as usual, as if he hadn't taken the things that happened last night seriously at all. So, Isabella suspected he was too drunk to remember anything

"I'm going to the bathroom," she said abruptly.

In the bathroom, she sobered up by washing her face. Instead of returning the way she came, she went around another corner. At that time, she saw a familiar child.