Mr. CEO's Substitute Bride-Chapter 1020 - 1016: His Little Darling Abandoned Him
The two actors weren’t seriously injured. The male actor, whose brakes failed, had a forehead injury, while the actress driving in front was just a bit shaken.
Professionals were brought in to check, and it was determined that the cause was lack of vehicle maintenance rather than tampering.
By the time everything was settled, it was already dark. Initially planning to negotiate with the director immediately, it seemed it would have to wait until tomorrow.
The next day at work, Nicholas Croft instructed his assistant, Tang, to negotiate with the police station, while he went to the temporary holding facility, intending to tell the mischievous girl the good news first, so she wouldn’t remain frightened. However, upon arriving at the temporary holding facility, the officer on duty said, "There is no one named Sophie Foster."
"Officer, could you have made a mistake? I just visited yesterday."
The two officers on duty exchanged glances, sharing a mutual understanding that only they could comprehend. The officer still denied, "Sir, our temporary detention center indeed has no one named Sophie Foster. Maybe she was taken somewhere else."
The police were adamant, and Nicholas Croft couldn’t continue. While driving back, he was full of doubts.
Because of his initial non-involvement, and with Edward Holmes constantly applying pressure from his side, Sophie Foster, with no background, was directly sent to the temporary detention center without any interrogation, even though it belonged to the same department as the police station but had a different person in charge.
After returning to the city, Nicholas Croft called Nathan Moore, asking him to help by using connections to inquire. Nathan Moore agreed without hesitation, and in the evening, several brothers gathered at the club. Despite Nathan Moore pulling strings, the response was still that there was no one named Sophie Foster.
As for where she was sent, there was no record of it. Felix Shaw even suggested, could it be that little Sophie thought you really didn’t care for her, so she vanished in frustration, 𝗳𝗿𝐞𝕖𝘄𝗲𝕓𝗻𝚘𝚟𝕖𝐥.𝚌𝕠𝕞
but Nicholas Croft found that impossible. He knew Sophie’s dependence on him well, and certainly, if she had requested this from the police herself, they would have told the truth rather than saying she didn’t exist...
After chatting for a while, the brothers went their separate ways, each preoccupied with their issues. Before parting at the club entrance, Evander Lancaster jokingly teased, "Big brother, I told you to get little Sophie out sooner, but you refused. Now look, she’s vanished off the face of the earth. Where will you find her now?"
Originally, Evander Lancaster’s words were meant in jest. With their influence in T City, finding out where Sophie Foster had been detained through connections was supposed to be easy. However, over a week had passed, and neither the municipal bureau nor the temporary detention center had any information. Sophie Foster had indeed vanished as if into thin air, disappearing without a trace.
To find Sophie Foster’s whereabouts, Evander Lancaster even went back to ask his mother for help. With the Lancaster family’s high status in T City and their business branches across the country, even the city officials would show them great respect.
Yet, even after his mother pulled strings, no information about Sophie Foster was uncovered.
Meanwhile, the eldest son of the Holmes family, who had just been discharged, was hospitalized again. Reportedly, he was caught cheating in a gamble after being invited to a casino by a friend and had his fingers chopped off.
With all available resources exhausted, Nicholas Croft suddenly got a bad feeling. His little girl had abandoned him.
He suddenly remembered Sophie’s apartment. Perhaps he could find something there. He took the key Sophie had made for him, drove there, and opened the door to her apartment. Her belongings were still there, but the lively presence was gone.
