OH PLEASE, MY EX-WIFE

"I am sorry. I shouldn't have asked, but I could tell that Mr. Smith really loves you. I have been staying with Mr. Smith in these years and in order to find you, he..."

"I know," Alice replies. She interrupts Allen and continues in a deep voice, "Back then, he easily believed in others and I almost lost my children. Now I don't dare to try anymore. So just let bygones be bygones." Alice went abroad that year in order to protect her family and she has been aboard for five years. She doesn't come back until he is going to get married with Joanna.

"But... Mr. Smith was deceived at that time. He only loves you or he would not..." Allen gets agitated, but then stops as if he reminds something. Edward once told him not to disclose this secret. Alice is also aware of something weird and asks, "But what?"

"No... Nothing," replies Allen who shakes his head flurried. "Mr. Smith is not back yet. Let me take a look," he changes the topic as if tries avoid Alice's inquiry.

After hearing this, Alice nods and thinks they need to take a look after all she has been there for a while.

Therefore, three of them head to the direction of the washroom.

Rebecca is gone.

Alice doesn't expect that her daughter would get lost even if under the supervision of Edward.

The whole process is simple.

Edward took Rebecca to the washroom while Rebecca told him men were not allowed to enter the Ladies. Rebecca assured him that she could handle herself, so she got in alone. Edward said nothing but waited outside.

He waited for a while but Rebecca still didn't get out, so he asked a female waiter to take a look. However, the female waiter told him that there was not child at four years old inside. Alice happens to hear the waiter's words and she almost faints. She rushes into the washroom and checks again and again, but finds Rebecca is not inside. Rebecca!

Why would a child vanish without trace?

When Alice is unable to stand the stimulation, Edward supports her with his hand. But she turns around, looks into him eyes and asks, "Is that you? What did you do to Rebecca?"

Edward is taken aback and he notices the distrust in Alice's eyes. He smiled with self-mockery and asks, "Am I such a contemptible man in your eyes? Do you think I will hide Rebecca and threaten you to stay with me?"

Although he did bear such an idea earlier, Edward gives up his idea finally since he understands love can't be compelled.

Alice couldn't withstand the blow but when she sees the misery in his eyes, she knows that she might have wronged him, because Edward would not act so recklessly.

"I am sorry..." Alice apologizes.

"I will find her. Don't worry," responds Edward firmly.

Alice has no choice but to trust him. Tears keep shedding down. She embraces Albert tightly, hoping nothing bad would happen to Rebecca.

"Mom, Rebecca will be fine," Albert says to console her.

Albert grabs Alice's hands to give her comfort, but something occurs to him suddenly. He raises his right hands to look at the positioning watch which is the same as Rebecca's. When Albert turns on the GPS system in his watch, he only sees the green dot which represents his location, but the red dot which represents Rebecca's position is gone. Albert becomes serious because he knows that Rebecca would not turn off the GPS system in watch for no reason.

There two possibilities. Either the place she is staying is affected by the magnetic interference or it is destroyed by someone deliberately who might be a computer expert as well. Albert is burning in anxiety since he is unable to find his sister on his own. He has to rely on Edward just like Alice.

Soon the police arrive.

The case arouses the police's attention since Smith family enjoys a good prestige in local. Although the police don't know Rebecca is Edward's daughter, they have also read the news and learned that Edward abandoned the mayor's daughter for the woman next to him. Therefore, it is not weird that Edward would get so anxious for this woman's kid.Nôvel(D)ra/ma.Org exclusive © material.

Despite this, the police station still has dispatched the most capable team to assist Edward to find Rebecca.

The whole restaurant is under control, but there is no camera in the washroom area, so they need to search the suspicion through the cameras in other areas of the restaurant.

"Mr. Smith," the captain of the investigation team greeted Edward respectfully, "Don't worry. We will find the kid."

"As soon as possible," replies Edward.

They get the monitoring records for the whole day while Edward and Alice also watch carefully, especially Alice who is trembling slightly out of extreme stress.

Rebecca is an adorable four-year-old girl and Alice is so worried at the thought of some horrible scene.

A warm hand suddenly grabs her. When she turns around, she meets Edward's soothing eyes. "She will be fine. Trust me," Edward says in a determined tone.

She is somehow comforted by him but suddenly she takes a glimpse at the screen of the computer. "Wait!" Alice says abruptly.

The police are shocked but still stop the video footage which is from the gate of the restaurant.

Among them, a man with a hat was wearing a coat, which seemed to be wrapped in something. The coat was a little bulging and the man bowed his head so they could not see him clearly.

However, even so, Alice manages to find a figure similar to the figure in her mind and suddenly reminds a man. "It's Charles."

Edward furrows his eyebrows, staring at the screen carefully and says to the police, "Find out all of his screen footage." "Yes."

A few minutes later, the police and other staff of the restaurant find out two footages of Charles. One was in the back of the restaurant where he just showed up and the other was at the front door where he passed and even took a glance inside the restaurant. When he showed up at the back door, there was nothing in his coat, but when he appeared at front door of the restaurant, his coat was bulging.

It seems Rebecca's missing has nothing to do with Charles, but Alice keeps looking at his bulging coat which almost reached Charles's ankle, where the bulge was about the size of a child.

The figure of a four-year-old child is small.

But what frightens Alice most is that there was no movement inside the coat. If Rebecca was inside, she would struggle, unless...0000000