Chapter 1787
Inside one of Ylore''s five-star hotels, Avery had just entered the lobby after parting ways with Nick
when she saw Mike sitting on the lobby sofa.
Mike saw her and immediately got up.
"Didn’t you see the message I sent you?" Mike waited for her in the lobby for three whole hours.
"Let''s get something to eat. I’m starving!"
"I was at the prison. The signal was terrible there." When Avery saw that Mike was still holding his
luggage, she asked, "You haven''t checked in?"
"Not yet. You didn''t tell me your room number. I want to get a room that''s next to yours," Mike said.
"Or we could share a presidential suite."
Avery took him to the front desk and booked a suite for him and the bodyguard.
"You two can stay together. I''ll stay in my current one."
"Are our rooms on the same floor?"
"Yes."
After Mike checked in, he took the luggage to the room and put it there before going to the hotel
restaurant for dinner.
"Why did you go to the prison? I don''t think Ivy''s in prison, is she?" Mike chatted casually. "I asked
Chad about it and he told me that Elliot never found Ivy."
"Yeah." Avery’s mood was much calmer than the previous day.
"You cried, didn''t you? Your eyes are swollen." Mike took a deep breath beforeforting her.
"Don’t be sad. Finding Ivy
is the best-case scenario. It''s not your fault if you can''t find her. It''s already been three years. That''s
a very long time."
"We''ll never aplish anything if wee up with reasons and excuses before we even start
doing it." Avery did not have much of an appetite when she nced at the menu, so she handed it
over to Mike.
"You''re not going to stay here forever, right? " Mike took the menu and nced at her," You should
set a deadline for yourself. If you can''t find her within that time frame, you should forget about it."
"I won’t stay here too long." Avery picked up the kettle and poured herself a ss of water. "I don''t
think Ivy''s still here."
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"Oh? Do you know where she is?" Mike pushed his empty ss to her so she could pour some
water for him too.
"I don''t know. All I can do is search all of our neighboring countries," Avery exined her ns. "I
don''t know how long it''ll take to find her, but we''ll reassess that strategy again if I''m too exhausted!"
"Fine. You don’t have much to do now anyway. Then again, we can always send someone to look
for her. That way, you don''t need to go there by yourself," Mike suggested. "Lots of people will want
to work for us as long as we''re able to pay them. We can even request the help of more
experienced detectives."
"We''ll use whatever method we can," Avery said. "Our priority is to find out whether or not she''s still
alive." "Okay. And by the way, you haven''t told me why you went to the prison." Mike picked up the
water ss took a sip. "When that incident happened at the Goulds'' residence, their driver took Ivy
away. That means Ivy didn''t die in that shooting. But the driver was a gambler, and he sold Ivy to a
criminal gang. I visited the prison today because I wanted to meet those people from the criminal
gang."
"Oh... Did you manage to get anything useful?" Mike pressed on.
Avery shook her head. "The main yers are all dead. It''s only those insignificant lower-level
people from the gang that are still alive in prison. When I went there, I saw some old people,
middle-aged women who were in charge of cooking, and young teens..."
Mike chuckled when he listened to her words. "You''re too naive, Avery. Who told you they were
insignificant? The guards in the prison?"
"Yeah, and so did Nick."
"What does he know? He''s a chameleon-the kind of person who tailors their statements to suit the
audience. You''d be better off trusting those fortune tellers on the street!" Mike gulped down the
water in his ss and put it down. "Do you know what a person needs to do to join a criminal
gang?"