Chapter 817 Unfortunate Incident

Chapter 817 Unfortunate Incident

Day Eighty-Seven...

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At Vincent's Secret Villa n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

"Have you seen, Mia?" Jane asked the head butler. She went to her room but she didn't see the little girl.

"Lady Jane, she went downstairs earlier to join you and Master Vincent. Didn't you see her?" the butler informed her.

"Earlier? I thought she went to her room?" Jane furrowed her eyebrows.

"She forgot something to tell you so she returned to talk to you."

Jane had a bad feeling about this. She was talking to Vincent a while ago and she didn't notice Mia at all.

'Wait. Don't tell me she overheard our conversation?' "Where is Vincent?" Jane asked with urgency.

"He left the house, Lady Jane." the butler responded anxiously. He could sense that something was not right.

"Check the CCTV footage. Look for Mia immediately!" Jane ordered the butler as she decided to search Mia around the house.

"Okay, Ma'am."

The head butler sprang into action. They would face great consequences if Mia had gone missing. They needed to find her as soon as possible.

Jane searched the entire house but to her disappointment, she didn't find Mia at all. Panting heavily, the head butler approached her.

"Lady Jane, come. You have to watch this." The head butler escorted Jane to the CCTV control room.

Jane clenched her fists when she saw Mia running away from the house while she was crying. It looked like Mia had overheard her conversation with Vincent.

Meanwhile, at Xu Family Mansion, Nathan arrived, visiting his father and Ethan. The maid escorted him to the living room where Old Man Xu was drinking his tea.

"Oh, you are here. Sit down." Old Man Xu invited Nathan to join him.

"Are you alone? Where is Ethan?" Nathan sat down and noticed that Ethan was not around.

"He went out to see a friend. Why? Are you here to fetch him?" Old Man Xu put down his teacup.

"No. He will be staying here for a while. You have to take care of him. I have some important things to do," Nathan said meaningfully. He was still thinking of a way to stop Jane from marrying Vincent.

But aside from that, the reason he dropped by the Xu Family Mansion was to ask Ethan about the recording he accidentally saw from the robots. He was still confused and he refused to believe about the soul swap. He wanted to ask Ethan about what he knew.

"Don't worry. I'll take care of him. You can wait for Ethan here. He might be on his way back."

Old Man Xu just finished saying those words when he received a call from the family chauffeur. "Hello, Julius. Where are you now? Are you on the way home?" Old Man Xu asked the family driver who accompanied Ethan earlier.

"Chairman Xu..." his voice was trembling.

Old Man Xu frowned in puzzlement. "What's wrong with you? Can you speak calmly?"

"I'm so sorry, Chairman. Something bad happened. I am currently here in the hospital..."

"WHAT?! Hospital? What do you mean? What happened to Ethan? Is he safe?" Old Man Xu spoke out spontaneously. Nathan turned to his father with a questioning look when he heard his words.

"What's going on here?"

Old Man Xu signaled Nathan to wait.

On the other hand, the family chauffeur became silent. He didn't know how he would tell his Boss about the unfortunate incident.

"Chairman Xu... I'm truly sorry... We failed to protect our young master, Ethan. I know we deserve to die... I—" The chauffeur's voice cracked as he cried in both fear and anxiety.

"What the hell are you saying?! Where is my grandson? What happened to him?" Old Man Xu angrily punched the table since the driver didn't give him specific details of what happened to Ethan. He just kept on apologizing.

Nathan couldn't take it any longer. He abruptly snatched the phone from his father's hand and pressed it to his ear, listening intently to the driver on the other end. Within seconds, his eyes widened in shock, and the phone slipped from his grasp, falling to the floor as he stood frozen in disbelief.