Chapter 561: Chapter 561



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The news was about the Nanshan Temple, which was unremarkable. The key point was the man in the news item: he was the man who stalked Dolores when she was in C-Town.

The man was found naked in the temple, badly injured. The scene was full of speculation. Therefore, it became news.

After all, everyone knew that the temple was supposed to be a clean place, where anything dirty was forbidden. However, such a scene occurred there.

Dolores went to sit on the sofa, continuing to watch the news. Then she learned that the man had been found in the most discreet storage room of the temple.

Pinching the remote control, she lost herself in thought.

He thought about all the things that had happened recently.

At first, he got those pictures. Then, the man showed up to harass her and a man showed up to save her. According to Oscar, that man looked rich, but he was not from C-Town.

Therefore, he assumed that the man must be from City B because he showed up in City B. He assumed that the rich man must be Declan Bailey, mentioned by Matthew.

The news man was performing in the show with Declan at the time, so he must be someone the latter trusted very much.

However, he had been found like that in a temple.

Dolores believed that Theresa must also be locked up in a secret place, like the Nanshan Temple.

The more she thought about it, the clearer the clue became and the more frightened she became. If Theresa was hiding in the temple as she supposed, Dolores wondered if that naked man had some evil intention towards Theresa.

Dolores almost strangled herself. She patted her chest hard, but no matter how hard she did it, she still couldn’t breathe properly.

“Mom! Mom! Can we get out?” Amanda ran to her, throwing herself into Dolores’ arms. She wrapped her arms around Dolores, playing cute. “Mommy, I want to buy dog food for Cotton. I also want to change the dog’s chain…”

“You can’t go out today,” Dolores interrupted her before she finished her words. Rubbing Amanda’s hair, Dolores said, “Good girl, you have to stay home. Don’t go out today.”

“Why not?” Amanda looked at her disappointed.

Dolores didn’t know how to explain to her daughter. She didn’t know what kind of man this Declan guy was. Since he dared to take Theresa away, it meant that this Declan was not a nice man. Besides, he kept making trouble.

What if he wanted to do something with the children?

The village was safe enough. So, Dolores tried to make an excuse to calm Amanda down, “It’s too hot outside…”

“We’ll sit in the car. The driver will take us. We don’t need to walk in the sun. Besides, we have sun protection umbrellas, or we can use the sun protection hats,” Amanda quickly rendered Dolores speechless.

Dolores was silent.

She wondered since when Amanda had become so scathing.

She turned away from her smile and became solemn. She said seriously, “You can’t go out today.”

Amanda blinked. Suddenly, she pulled out of Dolores’ arms, turned and trotted into her room.

She was furious.

Coral didn’t know what had happened. She didn’t have the courage to disappoint Amanda. When they were bathing Cotton, Amanda kept insisting that she buy her something. So, she tried to convince Dolores. “The kids actually want to go out. We can take them out shopping. The driver and I can take good care of them.”

Dolores disagreed. Looking at Coral, she insisted, “They’d better stay home this time.”

Before Coral spoke again, Dolores interrupted her, “I’m going out now. The driver will take me. Let the children stay home today.”

After finishing her words, she got up and went upstairs. She was still wearing casual clothes at home. She decided to go out after watching the news. Last night, Matthew told her that Theresa had run away. She wondered if something had happened and he didn’t dare tell her the details. She couldn’t feel at ease if she didn’t know the details.

Coral was a sympathetic person. As Dolores insisted, she could not insist any longer. She went to Amanda’s room to convince her.

Andrew let out a sigh. He poured a bowl of dog food in front of Cotton, squatted down and rubbed his head. “How happy you are!”

Cotton could be a carefree dog as long as the master provided the food.

If Cotton had known what was going through Andrew’s mind, he would have said that a dog had his worries too. He needed to please the master and was always worried about being abandoned.

A pet dog’s life wasn’t easy either. It didn’t live as happily as the human had imagined.

Dolores came downstairs and found Andrew feeding Cotton. She told him, “Go calm your sister down.”

Andrew lifted his head and gave her a look. “I’ll take care of her. Don’t worry.”

Dolores reached over to give him a kiss on the cheek. Andrew was too sensitive. “Thank you, my son.”

“If you have time later, you’d better take her to the pet store. The Frontline for the cotton has run out. We have to get some,” Andrew said.

Dolores had never had a pet before, so she didn’t know what he meant. She asked, “Is Cotton sick?”

Andrew jokingly replied, “Mom, so there are things you don’t know about!”.

Dolores gently pinched his ear with a fierce look. “It’s not easy for me to raise them, how could I have time and money to have a pet for you?”.

Andrew was still pleading. “Mommy, my mistake, my mistake. That’s not medicine to cure any disease. It’s to expel parasites. Someone brought that stuff to us. There was some left. After we bathed it, we used it up.”

Any family with pet animals should have the medicine at home to expel parasites, especially if there are children in the family. Dogs can easily get lice and fleas in their hair. If the medicine was not used, the lice and fleas would get in the children’s hair and in the house.

Dolores patted him on the head. “When your dad is free, ask him to take them there.”

“Okay. Mommy, are you going with us then?” Andrew asked with a smile.

“Of course. Now I have to go out and take care of something, bye.” Dolores got up. Andrew dutifully dismissed her. She waved to him, changed her shoes and walked out the door. She didn’t take anything on her way out last time, so she wasn’t missing anything at home.

The driver approached, opened the back door for her and asked respectfully, “Mrs. Nelson, where are we going?”

Dolores thought for a moment. “To the company.”

The driver closed the door and trotted forward to the driver’s seat.

The car quickly parked in front of the company entrance. Dolores didn’t get out right away. On the way, she hadn’t thought about what she would do and wondered if Matthew would be at the company. Pulling out her phone, she set out to call Boyce. He thought he might be able to get more reliable information from Boyce than from Matthew.

She knew Matthew didn’t want her to worry about this matter, but Theresa was no stranger to her. On the contrary, he had been treating Theresa as his family. Besides, Theresa had been kidnapped because of him.

When she called Boyce’s number, put the phone next to her ear and waited for the call to connect, another car pulled up next to hers. The car door opened immediately and a man in a suit got out. He turned around and walked into the company. Dolores saw his face clearly.

Her jaw dropped. It was him.

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