Chapter 197: Don’t Play Nice
Leila frowned a bit when she saw me asking about the child and slowly shook her head, “There was no sign of the child at all, Sherry was business as usual, not half as strange, and never left the place where she lived.”
“And that’s wrong?” I muttered incredulously, “She’s the one who obviously took the baby? I do believe Alice on that one. And what about Adam? If she’s not going to do anything, someone has to do her job for her and watch over Adam?”
“Albert’s been listening in on Sherry and she hasn’t had any contact with the outside world?” Leila looked over at me, “You shouldn’t work too hard, would you like something to eat?”
I didn’t care what Leila asked me, and worriedly said, “But it’s been days since the boy …”
“Looks like you’re in the spirit!”
My words were interrupted by a man, and we all turned our heads toward the door, only to see Albert wander in with an unruly look on his face.
I sat up hurriedly, still a little light-headed, my fever causing me to be sore and limp.
“Albert, hurry up and tell me, how come we haven’t found the baby?” I was a bit anxious.
From the time the news of Amelia’s death came in, I honestly became particularly concerned about this Ryan thing, maybe it’s my flood of love, but children are innocent after all.
“There really are no clues, and according to Alice, we also played back the surveillance from the vacation shift, and we really didn’t find any clues. In fact there was no sign of the car Alice said was there either.” Albert lazily sat down in the chair in front of my bed and then as an afterthought said to the others, “Sisters, you sit too!”
“I haven’t slept in a couple of nights,” Albert said, still looking at Scarlette with his mouth full, “Can you get me something to eat?”
Scarlette snorted disdainfully, “lay! … You think I’m your maid that? Open your mouth and instruct!”
“I can’t! I’m treating you like family, why else would I be ordering you around?” Albert was unforgiving, “Scarlette, it doesn’t bother you that I’m starving to death?”
Scarlette inexplicably and surprisingly blushed and ‘pooh-poohed’, “Who is your relative? Don’t be ridiculous!”
“You can rip it when I’m done eating it!” Albert bitchily continued to, “Snappy!”
A few of us looked at Scarlette with blank faces, and she was instantly speechless, staring at the rest of us wide-eyed, supposedly feeling like she couldn’t back out.
“What are … all looking at me for? Don’t listen to him!” Scarlette hid her embarrassment.
“Go on! Come back and fight him!” I gave Scarlette a leg up.
She glared angrily at Albert and hurriedly turned to head out the door, still pretending to grit her teeth.
Only then did I look at Albert, full of suspicion, “There’s no way Alice could have lied! What she said, the child was picked up by Sherry, how could she not have a clue?”
“This Alice …” Albert trailed off, thinking for a moment without going on.
“You mean she’s misleading?” I looked at Albert incredulously, a little upset.
Albert asked some more about what Alice had told me then, and I learned it all again from him.
“If she’s being deliberately misleading, that tells us one more thing!” Albert looked over at me.
“What’s the problem?” I trailed off, getting a bad feeling.
“That means she was testing you!” Albert hit the nail on the head, “That’s why we didn’t dare touch Sherry!”Nôvel(D)rama.Org's content.
Albert’s statement made me a little depressed, and I cursed fiercely in my heart, these two sisters, neither of them are good.
“I think what Albert said is definitely possible!” Hannah spoke up to, “From what you’ve told me, there was a lot of substance in what she said later, ‘You have a really good heart, but it doesn’t always work out for the best!’ Think about it, what did she mean?”
“I wasn’t thinking about that statement at the time, it was really informative.” I had to admit, “How that statement made me feel, she hates me!”
“There’s no excuse for that, think about it, she must have known that you knew Robert had contracted a dirty disease and you hadn’t informed her truthfully, letting her, a moth to the flame, how could she not hate you?” Anna put it bluntly, “Plainly, that statement means you should stop pretending to be a good person!”