NovelEnglishChapter 892 I smiled. "What's bothering you?" Caroline hesitated for a while before saying, "Just a question, Ma'am. It's going to be National Day soon. Do you have any plans?" I realized what was going on at once. She wanted to askwhen the national day holiday was going to be. Keith was normally the one who arranged all these things. He was probably so busy lately that he had forgotten to inform Caroline.
I asked her, "Are you going hfor the new year?" Caroline nodded. "My son and his wife will be going hfor the new year. I'd love to go back and visit them." "Have you bought the tickets?" Caroline seemed a little awkward and said, "Not yet. M y son will book them forafter I know when my break is." I nodded to show that I understood. "Ask your son to book the ticket now, then. It'll be harder to book in two more days." Caroline's face broke into a grin at once. "Thank you, Mrs. Grant." After grabbing ssnacks from the kitchen fridge, I went to the sofa in the living room to watch TV.
"Mrs. Grant." Caroline walked over. "Your phone kept ringing just now." I forgot to charge my phone last night and had been charging it in the bedroom when I woke up this morning.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtI grabbed the phone and thought that Theo had givena call but when I looked at it, it was actually a bunch of news notifications.
Perhaps it was because it was going to be the new year soon, so all the hashtags were about the new year. It all looked very festive.
After staring at my phone for half an hour, I switched on the TV.
It was snowing heavily outside and it was inconvenient to go out, so I could only stay at home. After a long thad passed, I could not sit still anymore.
I was wondering if I should go and visit Susan when Jercalled.
As soon as I answered the call, Jerome's slightly anxious voice entered my ears. "Where are you?" I was a little speechless. "At home. Why?" "Looks like you still don't know." Jertook a deep breath and continued, "Munchkin went missing in South Vasetine." My mind went blank at once. There was a ringing in my head and I could not hear anything.
Jercalled out my nseveral times from the other end of the call but I could not hear him.
Caroline sawsitting on the floor and rushed over." Are you okay, Mrs. Grant?"
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmI cback to my senses and grabbed her hand, looking up at her. "Munchkin went missing. He went missing. How did he go missing?"
I broke down emotionally and tried to stand up from the floor but my legs were extremely wobbly. They sentfalling to the floor as soon as I stood up.
My phone was still connected, so I brought it to my ear again and m wanted to ask Jeroine questions. However, a s soon as I opened my mouth, I realized that I could not find my voice. "Are you okay, Wanda?" Jerome's anxious voice rang out on the other side.
Caroline was shocked by my reaction and poureda glass of water. "Have a sip first, Mrs. Grant." I nodded and took a sip. The water tasted bitter and was hard to swallow.
After a very long time, I found my voice again and asked Jerwith a trembling voice, "You're joking with me, right, Jerome?" X
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