Falling in Love With A One-Night Stand

Chapter 459 Tammy Is Missing

Selina invited Anna and Wayne to her birthday party. She made many dishes and only invited her family members.

While having dinner, Tammy fiddled with the crab legs on her plate intently. She gathered some crab meat and placed it on Selina’s plate, saying, “Happy birthday, Grandaunt Selina.”

Hearing that, Selina laughed 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.

Minutes later, 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 to come 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 exclaimed, “Impossible! | worked late 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 sent last 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 accident to the series of changes that had occurred 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 that complicated.” Content rights by NôvelDr//ama.Org.

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 clapped her hands and exclaimed, “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’m coming 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 the last 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 planned 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 minutes later, 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 surveillance footage.” Noel entered about a moment later through the driver’s side door. He handed Wayne the black flash drive he was holding.

Wayne inserted the flash drive into the computer 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 shop last 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 surveillance, 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 replayed 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 his computer 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 something complicated from a long time ago. As he regained his composure, 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.