Chapter 976

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The man who led the group stepped forward and said urgently, “Ms. Davidson, have you seen Ms. Brooks? We haven’t been able to contact either Mr. Riley or Ms. Brooks, and we’re starting to get worried.”
“I’ll check right now,” Dolores replied, knitting her brows together while retrieving her phone. There, she noticed a string of messages from Linsey, all sent around three hours earlier.
She called Linsey, but just as they’d mentioned, the line wouldn’t connect.
Dolores’s lips pressed into a tight line as she tried calling Collin next. That call failed too.
“This is strange. I can’t get through to either of them,” Dolores murmured, clearly baffled by the situation.
In her mind, it made sense that Linsey and Collin might have gone somewhere together, but she couldn’t imagine where they would go without informing her.
Surely, Linsey wouldn’t leave the kids waiting at home without saying a word. That simply wasn’t like her.
From the corner of the room, Glenda’s voice cut through the tension. “After lunch, Mr. Riley asked me to take Zenia and Zander out for a walk. When we returned, the house was empty. Neither Mr. Riley nor Ms. Brooks could be found.”
The men stationed there were under Collin’s orders to watch over Zenia and Zander that afternoon.
“So you’re saying Linsey and Collin left without any protection?” Something about this didn’t sit right with Dolores.
Just then, the head of Collin’s security team spoke with quiet authority. “I just received word that Gorman’s parents arrived in Grester four hours ago.”
Dolores’s eyes narrowed as the meaning hit her immediately. It hadn’t been long since Gorman died protecting Linsey. Knowing that, Gorman’s parents probably blamed her for his death.
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On top of that, Collin and Gorman had been enemies for years. Was there a connection between Linsey and Collin’s disappearance and the Greens showing up?
Dolores pressed him quickly. “Can you find out where Gorman’s parents are?”
The leader replied, “It’s possible, but it will take some time. They appear to be deliberately concealing their movements.”
Dolores’s expression grew more troubled as she heard this. Why would the Greens go to such lengths to cover their tracks?
Obviously, they were planning something.
Dolores glanced down at her phone, where Linsey’s last message still glowed on the screen. The timestamp showed three hours ago. That meant Linsey and Collin could have been missing for three entire hours already.
Dolores’s breath came in shallow bursts as panic began to claw at her chest.
“Ms. Davidson, we’ve already dispatched teams to check every location Mr. Riley and Ms. Brooks frequent, but there’s been no sign of them. We’ll need to widen our search radius now,” the security leader reported just as fresh updates reached him.
Dolores pressed her lip between her teeth, worry etched across her features. “Have you tried reaching Dustin?”
If Collin was executing some kind of plan, Dustin would surely be in the loop. He was Collin’s most trusted confidant. Otherwise, Dustin would be just as frantic with concern by now.
At Dustin’s name, the team leader’s expression shifted uncomfortably. “Ms. Davidson, we can’t get through to Mr. Wade either. His mother has been… monitoring him quite closely these days.”
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