Chapter 499


    Exhausted from crying, and burdened by his injury, it wasn''t long before Carl drifted back into a fitful


    sleep. But it wasn''t a peaceful rest; he''d whimper and wail intermittently, clearly in pain.


    The doctor reassured me that it was lucky the main artery hadn''t been hit, just muscle tissue, but given


    the boy''s tender age, we had to keep a close eye on him.


    I resolved to stay put in the small town until his wounds healed, postponing our return to Goldenvale


    Town.


    After getting the doctor to administer a mild sedative, I took Hannah and headed straight to the local


    sheriff''s office to confront the detained Jan.


    Seeing him, I felt a surge of rage so fierce I could have torn out his heart. But I kept my cool, asking


    him, "Tell me where you''ve sent my child."


    At first, Jan yed dumb, iming he didn’t understand.


    I mmed my fist on the table, anger boiling over. "You really think I''m that gullible? Or are you keen on


    spending your life behind bars? Because I can make that wishe true!"


    Iid out all the pieces of the puzzle before him, peppering him with questions until his face went pale.


    "I swear, Aaliyah, I have no idea where that woman took the kid. I''m telling you the truth; I just don''t


    know."


    He was stubborn, almost insolent. "I had my reasons, okay? She used this to ckmail me, forcing me


    to give in, threatening Carl''s well-being. I asked her a thousand times, but she wouldn''t budge. What


    could I do?"


    "Jan, are you even human? You''ve gambled away your business, your family, your own flesh and


    blood for a fling. How can you live with yourself?" I was livid. "It should have been you who died!"


    Those were my raw, unfiltered thoughts. What good was this excuse of a man still breathing when


    Zora, the only lead to finding my son, was now six feet under?


    I remembered when I was pregnant with Carl, Zora suddenly imed a family emergency back home


    and took an eight-month leave, only returning when I was about to give birth. She looked healthier and


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    a bit bigger then.


    I joked with her, "Looks like going home did you good; you’ve put on some weight, huh?"


    She admitted to some family business but wouldn''t borate, and I didn''t press.


    Now it seemed obvious that during those eight months, she must have been hiding out in Goldenvale


    Town, waiting to give birth.


    I couldn''t quite recall Jan''s activities back then, but I remembered how he was especially busy when


    I was seven to eight months along, often workingte.


    It all pointed to that being the time Zora was delivering her child.


    Looking at Jan, disheveled from two days in custody, I felt nothing but disgust. Knowing he was


    aware of Zora''s son was enough; there was no point in pressing him further.


    I got up and said to Hannah, "Let''s go."


    Jan panicked, standing up quickly. "Honey..."


    "Don''t you dare call me that!" I roared back, revolted by his address.


    Hannah scoffed in disdain.


    Without another word, I left the sheriff''s office with Hannah.


    Outside, Hannah asked, "Do you believe what he said?" Co?tent of Drаmа?ovels.cоm


    "He wasn''t lying; he probably doesn''t know where Carl is. Otherwise, he wouldn''t asionally yield to


    Zora. He was telling the truth about that."


    "How do you know he was taking them for Zora?" Hannah asked, puzzled.