Chapter 459 Tammy Is Missing
Selina invited Anna and Wayne to her birthday party. She made many dishes and only invited her
family members.
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While having dinner, Tammy fiddled with the crab legs on her te intently. She gathered some crab
meat and ced it on Selina’s te, saying, “Happy birthday, Grandaunt Selina.”
Hearing that, Selinaughed happily.
Tammy pulled out the jade bracelet with her greasy hands while eating crab meat, which surprised
Selina and moved her to tears. Then, Selina cried on her husband’s shoulder.
Wayne, who was sipping the soup, looked perplexed and locked eyes with Tammy, who was also
feeling overwhelmed.
Tammy had crab paste on her nose, but she didn’t even realize it. She said as she was worried, “If you
don’t like this one, Grandaunt Selina, | can get you another. Don’t cry, please!”
After hearing her words, Selina looked up, smiled, and kissed her cheek, “I cry because | feel so happy.
| love your gift, of course! “
Then Anna’s phone vibrated. She got a message from Peace, saying, “| really miss Tammy! I’ll pick her
up from school tomorrow afternoon and let her spend the night at my house.”
Anna continued to drink her soup and replied, “sure.”
The next day, when she received a phone call from Tammy’s teacher, Anna was having lunch in the
hospital cafeteria. After talking to her teacher over the phone, Anna knew that Tammy hadn’t arrived at
school all morning. 458 Tammy Is Missing
Taken aback, Anna tried her best to stay calm. She then dialled Peace’s number.
Peace sounded tired, but after hearing what Anna said, she immediately woke up. She asked,
surprised, “You said | texted you yesterday that | picked up Tammy? No, | didn’t!”
“Come see me in person then.” After saying this, Anna hung up the phone, exhausted. She was
shocked and upset.
Minutester, she arrived home to find Wayne and Peace waiting for her in the living room. They were
both stone-faced and silent.
“Anna! What in the hell is going on?” Peace ran to Anna as soon as she saw her enter. She was
terrified on her way there. She had been waiting for Anna for a long time, so she told Wayne toe
home as well.
Anna sat on the couch and then burst into tears. She took her phone from her bag and opened her chat
log with Peace.
“| really miss Tammy! I’ll pick her up from school tomorrow afternoon and let her spend the night at my
house.”
“Sure.”
Seeing the text messages, Peace jumped up from the couch. She widened her eyes and eximed,
“Impossible! | workedte at the office yesterday and didn’t even get home that night. | didn’t even send
you this message!”
Then Peace suddenly recalled something terrible. Frowning, she said, “I went downstairs to the
supermarket to get coffee around eight o’clock yesterday, and then | lost my phone. When I left, a little
girl returned it to me.” She then took her phone from her bag, searched for their text message and
found that their most recent message was sentst week.
Hearing that, Anna was desperate. She was sweating all over and felt like the world was spinning
around her. 458 Tammy Is Missing
“Anna, are you all right?” Wayne asked. He was concerned that Anna would crumble under the
pressure of one blow after another.
Anna looked up at Wayne with sadness. Her voice shook as she said, “Go find Tammy, Wayne. Please
find her!”
Peace had no idea what had happened, so she had no way of connecting this ident to the series of
changes that had urred sometime before. As a result, she reassured Anna, “Tammy had lost before
when she was younger. She is now old enough to protect herself. Let’s go find her. Perhaps things
aren’t all thatplicated.”
Anna ignored Peace’s words and tried to force herself to calm down. After a while, she had a thought.
“Have you ever seen this pattern?” she asked, rolling up her sleeve and pointing to the pattern of the
sticker on her wrist.
After thinking for a while. Peace pped her hands and eximed, “Yes, | did! A man bumped into me
in the supermarket yesterday. He has this tattoo on his neck.”
Anna became even more desperate after hearing her words. She grabbed the phone from the coffee
table and dashed out the door.
Wayne stopped her as she walked for a few steps. He stood up and gave Anna a tender and
compassionate look. He was just as worried as she was, yet, he had to remind her, “If you go look for
him now, you’ll only make matters worse. He might have quit his job in that restaurant. I’m going to the
school right now to get some information. Peace, call the police and then stay with Anna for me.”
After a quick phone call to Noel, Wayne had everything ready and headed out the door. As he walked
past Anna, she grabbed his arm and said, “I’ming with you.”
As she tugged on Wayne’s shirt, Anna’s hands trembled slightly.
Wayne gripped her tightly, his strong arms providing her a sense of security. “Please wait for me.” He
said firmly before turning and walking out the door.
After Wayne arrived at Tammy’s school, Tammy’s teacher told Wayne, who was sitting sternly on the
couch, “These are the two students who left school with Tammy yesterday after school, and they were
thest people to see her.” She then pointed to a girl nearby, saying, “Sally, please tell this gentleman
of the situation.”
“Our practice exam results were released yesterday. Tammy did well on the test, so we nned to
celebrate it after school. But not long after we entered the dessert shop, she abruptly said that she
needed to leave.”
“What?” Wayne asked, perplexed
The other girl nodded and echoed, “Yeah. | had a feeling that something was wrong with her after we
entered the dessert shop. She is usually very energetic and often tells us jokes. But she was unusually
quiet yesterday, as if she was thinking about something. She also left in a hurry, as if she needed to do
something right away.”
Wayne asked, “Which dessert shop did you go to?”
Twenty minutester, Wayne arrived at the dessert shop . He sat in the back seat, slightly leaning
toward the car door. He was expressionless as he stared out of the car window at the pedestrians
coming and going.
“Got it! I told the owner’s wife that my sister had gone missing and gave her another $500. Then, she
gave me the surveince footage.” Noel entered about a momentter through the driver’s side door.
He handed Wayne the ck sh drive he was holding.
Wayne inserted the sh drive into theputer quickly and didn’t 458 Tammy Is Missing seem to
want to say anything. He carefully watched the video, and his expression gradually became sullen.
Tammy and the two girls arrived at the dessert shopst night at 6:53 p.m. and took a seat to the left of
the door. The waitress served them three cakes. Tammy ate only a few bites of the cake before
stopping. She left the store alone with her backpack at 7:08.
Wayne frowned. He noticed that Tammy paused as she walked through the store’s door and then kept
staring at a specific spot to her right. The surveince, however, did not capture what Tammy was
looking at.
And he became distressed and leaned against the back of the chair. He had an idea as soon as he
closed his eyes and immediately reyed the video.
Two people walked by before Tammy left. They walked from the screen’s right side to the store’s
entrance. They quickly left the store, and Tammy soon left.
Wayne realized something wasn’t quite right. He couldn’t tell who the person was because the image
was so blurry. After some thought, he sent a screenshot of the image to Ryan and said, “Please help
me look into this. Iwant to know who they are.”
Ryan was on a mission to investigate some data. He stopped what he was doing on hisputer to
refine the blurry image and then sentit to Wayne, saying, “I need time to figure out who they are, but
you can see their faces now.”
Wayne frowned as he looked at the picture Ryan had sent. He tightened his grip on his phone as he
remembered somethingplicated from a long time ago. As he regained hisposure, the
dampness in his palm reminded him of what he had just thought. 458 Tammy Is Missing “Ryan, I think |
know who they are,” Wayne sighed.