Faux Vows, True Desires novel Chapter 239

Nathan had just walked into the conference room, about to chair an important meeting.

Suddenly, his phone buzzed. It was Shirley calling. Nathan picked up in a hurry.

"Mr. Nathan, we're in deep trouble. Lucy's gone missing, Janice is out like a light and can't be woken up, and Keith's been crying non-stop."

Nathan jumped to his feet so suddenly that he knocked over the chair behind him. He bolted out of the conference room in a flash.

The other executives were left stunned.

In the blink of an eye, Nathan had vanished.

"What just happened?"

All eyes turned to Hayden Blue.

Hayden was Nathan's younger brother and vice president of the company. But despite their relationship, the executives didn’t think much of his capabilities. Compared to Nathan, Hayden was like a drop in the ocean. But he had a silver tongue and was known to be the apple of Grandma Savannah's eye.

In a prominent family like the Blues, it's usually the eldest who shouldered the family responsibilities, while the younger ones were doted on by the parents.

Grandma Savannah was indeed fond of Hayden. She had a respectful relationship with Nathan, but it lacked the warmth of a mother-son bond.

Everyone stared at the clueless Hayden, who said, "Nathan got a call and dashed off. I have no idea what happened, so stop staring at me."

He felt quite uncomfortable.

"But if something made Nathan dash off like that, it must have been a call from Janice," Hayden speculated.

As soon as Janice was mentioned, everyone stopped staring at Hayden.

Nathan was competent, handsome, and wealthy. Even though he was already married, he had a long line of women after him. Many of his admirers said they didn't need any status from him; they just wanted to be his secret lovers.

Unfortunately for them, Nathan was loyal to Janice. No matter how many women chased after him, he rejected them all, giving them no chance. They could only look on with envy, feeling jealous of Janice.

Especially since Janice had struck gold, giving birth to twins a year after marrying into the Blue family.

This stirred up even more envy and jealousy.

Nathan's love for Janice was indescribable. He was always there for her, dropping whatever he was doing to rush home when she called.

Everyone at Skywatch knew Nathan, the head of the Blue family and CEO of Blue Corporation, was a man deeply in love with his wife.

Hayden's phone rang too.

Seeing that it was his wife Ashley calling, he smiled at everyone and said, "It's my wife."

Everyone tittered.

Just as Hayden was insinuating that Nathan was too doting on Janice, his own wife had called, and he picked up right away.

Hayden answered Ashley's call.

Ashley said anxiously, "You need to come home. There's been a big incident. Lucy's been taken. The house is in chaos. Grace and Colton have sent people to look for her, but they're also furious and planning to send the servants and bodyguards over to the police."

Hayden was shocked and asked, "How could Lucy be taken? There are so many people at home, and Janice is usually the one taking care of her. Who would dare to take such a risk?"

"You need to come home now. Oh dear, my stomach seems to be hurting. I think I might be going into labor."

Elisa was dead, but Lucinda was nowhere to be found.

Lucinda was still so little, barely able to sit up straight. There's no way she could have run off on her own. Nathan figured the scumbag who killed Elisa must have taken his daughter.

Next, Nathan rallied his crew and enlisted the help of a few big-shot families in Whiterun to find Lucinda. They turned Whiterun upside down, but with no luck.

With no signs of Lucinda in Whiterun, Nathan, thinking about his wife and kid back home, left others to continue the search while he bolted back to Skywatch.

Janice's tears were falling even harder now.

That memory was a hurdle she just couldn't get over. She had been a mental wreck for over two decades, all because she couldn't come to terms with losing Lucy.

Was it her fault? She had been negligent!

Who could've guessed that the cup of milk would have sleeping pills mixed in? While she was out, Lucy was swiped.

She had no clue what happened after she fell asleep. All she knew was that when she woke up to find Lucy gone, she went batshit crazy, looking for her daughter everywhere.

Janice's heart ached as she cried.

She was wracked with guilt, so much so that she considered ending her own life. She had tried to hurt herself and even attempted suicide several times. Only Shirley, holding Keith and begging on her knees for her to think about Keith, and Nathan's careful watch kept her hanging on by a thread.

But her world had crumbled. Her heart was an empty shell. Her world lost all its light from then on.

She felt powerless and incapable of protecting her own child.

Grace was always on Janice's case too, blaming her for sleeping like a log and not even noticing when her own child was stolen.