Chapter 273: Chapter 273 Leaving Home

That wasn’t the end of it. Amos Granger later took her to their bed once more. In the end, Eudora George fell asleep, worn out from the passionate night.

When she finally calmed down, Amos reached out and softly caressed her face in absolute satisfaction.

“Honey, now let’s see if you’ll have the energy to take such interest in other men.”

…

When Amos got up the next day, Eudora was already not in the room. This sort of situation was common, especially since Juju had moved out. Whenever he was too rough with Eudora in the bedroom, she would usually flee to Juju’s room in the middle of the night.

Therefore, Amos didn’t really think too much of her absence.

After he got out of bed and washed up, he ordered some breakfast. He then walked over to Juju’s room and pushed the door open.

Juju was already up and she had changed out her pajamas, “Good morning, Daddy!” She greeted with enthusiasm upon seeing Amos at her door.

“Good morning,” Amos replied, rubbing the back of his head, “There’s breakfast on the table. Have your breakfast when you’re ready.”

When Juju left her room, Amos walked over to the bathroom in her room, “It’s light out now. When are you going to stop hiding in there? Come out.”

Not a sound came from the bathroom in reply. Amos frowned, proceeding to push the door open.

It was empty.

He spun around the room, searching the cupboards just in case. There really was no one in here.

Outside the door, Juju saw the commotion that Amos was making in her room, “Daddy, Mommy didn’t come to my room last night.”

Amos felt a bit embarrassed and he paused for a moment, “Alright, thank you. Eat up first, won’t you?”

Taking out his mobile phone, he tried to call Eudora. The operator’s recorded voice message answered him instead. That meant her phone was turned off.

He then went to call the front desk and had gotten word that no one had left the resort. The security system in this resort was pretty decent, and perhaps he should look into the security footage. If he saw that she was safe, he’ll be able to stop worrying.

At that moment, there was a knock on the door.

Harley Louis sounded delirious as he spoke, “Amos, bad news. That annoying Thea hasn’t been back to our room since she left last night.”

Amos opened the door, “When did you see her last?”

“At Christopher’s door. She kicked me and left right after. I thought she would return to our room by herself, but she still hasn’t come back yet.”

At the same time, Christopher’s door opened as well. He stood by his opened door, dumbfounded. As though sensing that someone was staring at his back, Harley turned around and met Christopher’s eye.

His eyes lit up, “Your woman is missing, too?”

Christopher frowned, “Could it be that yours are missing as well?

Amos suddenly heaved a sigh of relief. With a sudden realization, Harley spoke up, “Ah, I know now. Those three must have made plans to ditch us so they could go out and have fun by themselves!”

Christopher suddenly thought of Tina’s cramped foot from last night, “I’ll find them and bring them back.”

“Where are you going to find them? Their phones are turned off, and there’s no trace of them anywhere!”

After that, both of them looked at Amos.

Amos sat across Juju and began to eat his breakfast in leisure, “They just went out to relax. Why are you two getting so anxious?”

“Hold on! That’s not right…” Harley thought out loud.

“Tina left because Christopher slept with her even though he didn’t like her, so it’s only reasonable that she ran off. As for Thea… Well, we’re not well-matched so that’s reasonable. But you and Eudora though, you are happy with each other. Why did she leave too? Did you do something to her last night?”

Amos glared at Harley, covering Juju’s ears.

“Just do whatever you want!”

Harley knew that he had misspoken again. So, he hurried over to Juju and tried to appease her, “Your mother is not here today. How about I take you sight-seeing? How does that sound?” He asked Juju with a smile.

Juju frowned at the suggestion instantly, “No!”

Harley went silent at that.

He had no choice but to turn towards Christopher and take hold of his hand, “Forget it then. Come on, Christopher. Let’s go have some fun outside!”

Unfortunately, Christopher rejected his offer as well, “Sorry, I don’t quite have the time.”

Harley let out a chuckle.

“Well then, forget it. I’ll just go back to my room and sleep!”

After saying that, he went straight back to his room. However, as he lay on the bed, he could not get the image of Thea’s red-rimmed eyes out of his head.

After tossing and turning in his bed for a while, Harley sat up. He was feeling incredibly annoyed.

“That woman. Why did she cry just because I brought up about her family?”

Feeling curious, Harley took out his mobile phone and dialed a number.

He worked in a police station, so it was easy for him to pull up any information he wanted from anyone. He gave his colleague a call and asked them to look up Thea’s information for him.

Not long after, he received a reply.

“Boss, how did you come to know of this woman? She really is not one to be trifled with!”

Harley was taken aback, “What do you mean?”

“I mean literally. If I’m not mistaken, Thea Stewart is the eldest daughter of the Stewart family in Rosaville City. She doesn’t have a very good rep. The Stewarts felt that she had brought shame to the family when she fought with her younger sister over a man. Her parents shunned her from their home and forced her to make a living by herself from a young age. There were rumors going around that she’s often seen together with different men. The Stewart family literally threw her out to feed the dogs. They even said it’d be best if she just died out there.”

Harley was visibly upset, “Are there really such parents in the world?”

His colleague was rendered silent for a while, “Boss, are you okay? It’s clear that Thea is the disobedient sort. How could a lady from a rich family act out like that?”

“What do you know?!” Harley argued while gritting his teeth, “Being seen together with different men doesn’t necessarily mean she’s done anything wrong. Couldn’t she just be working with them? Colleagues? Or even friends?”

At this point, Harley recalled his past behavior. Didn’t he bear the same judgment towards her in the beginning?

He felt himself getting increasingly more annoyed so he hung up the phone.

As it turned out, her family’s pretty horrible. No wonder she got so upset at the mention of her family last night.

In fact, she probably acted out the way she did deliberately because she wanted to get other people’s attention, didn’t she?

Just like many children, if one found out that no one loved them in the family, they would do all sorts of nonsense to garner attention. Sometimes, they’d even act sick, just because they wanted their parents’ attention.

Unfortunately, the cold-blooded Stewarts had instead completely turned her away.

What a poor thing.

Harley started to feel guilty. He had already had trouble sleeping, and now he could just forget about the possibility of getting any rest altogether.

He waited in the room for a while. It was already afternoon, and the three women still didn’t come back. Harley started feeling anxious.

Meanwhile, in Amos’ room.

After catching Amos’ numerous glances towards the door, Juju couldn’t help but speak up, “Daddy, if you miss Mommy, can’t you just call her?”

Amos frowned. If only his call could get through to her.

Amos didn’t reply to Juju’s inquiry. Instead, he asked, “Aren’t you worried?”

“Why should I be worried? Didn’t Daddy say that Mommy went out to have fun? I think that’s pretty good. It’s already hard for her to take care of me every day. She deserves it.”

Such a sensible child. Amos reached out and caressed Juju’s hair.

After a while, Juju said again, “Mommy said that she wanted to drink last time. It’d be nice if she is doing it now.”

Juju’s statement alarmed Amos.

Hearing his daughter’s words, Amos couldn’t help but envision Eudora’s sultry look that always accompanied her whenever she had something to drink. He couldn’t sit still any longer. He was jittering with anxiety.

Places like the bar were crowded with all sorts of wicked people. Anything could happen to her.