Oliver's Substitute Bride (Oliver and Jessica) novel Chapter 81

Lambert left the office in a hurry. First, he went back to GrandVille Apartments and then to his bedroom. He saw that the things in the room were still the same as when he left last night, but the woman was gone.

Last night, after he left the bedroom, he stayed in the study and didn't sleep. He didn't hear anything from the master bedroom. He asked Simon to call Williams Hospital to check if she had gone to see her grandma. The answer was negative.

Oliver suddenly felt a little flustered.

'This woman is really gone. She was not in the hospital, nor did she go to work. When did she leave?'

He called Dancey over and got all the surveillance videos of GrandVille Apartments yesterday. On the computer screen, he saw Jessica in a white down jacket leaving at 3.55 a.m. The woman staggered, carrying nothing in her hands.

Oliver knew that it should have been when he had just returned to the study. He inadvertently glanced at the clock hanging in the study at that time. It was 3:45 a.m. At that time, he was upset but the woman's pitiful cry echoed in his head.

Soon Simon came back.

"Mr. Williams, I looked everywhere madam could go. But there was no good news."

Oliver hadn't slept all night and had a long morning meeting. He was livid and he couldn't hold back his tiredness any longer. He frowned and said coldly, "Go check her ID card to see if she's ever bought a ticket."

"There is no record of the purchase."

"She probably hasn't left Birmingham yet. Look for her right away. I don't believe that a living person can completely disappear."

Simon asked, "Do you want to call the police first?"

"Are you not as efficient as the police?"

"Okay. I'll ask our men to look for her now."

Oliver was upset and wanted to find something to divert his attention, so he turned on the TV and saw a news report. Last night, there was a murder in a taxi in the suburbs. The victim was a pregnant woman.

The murderer drove the car to the suburbs and raped the victim before killing her. The victim was also dismembered and abandoned in the wilderness, and police were currently looking for the victim's family through the TV news.

Oliver suddenly sat up, picked up the car keys, and went straight to the police station.

This time, Tom received Oliver and took him to the interrogation room. There was a bald man sitting by the wall.

Oliver grabbed the suspect's collar. "Tell me, what was the woman in your car wearing?"

"A white... white coat." The suspect was even more scared when he saw him than when he saw the police.

"What did she look like? Did she have long hair or short?"

"Long... Long hair. Because it was not dawn yet, I didn't see her clearly. I didn't mean to kill her. I just felt that the woman was beautiful, so I raped her. Later, I was afraid that things would be exposed, so I killed and dumped her body."

"F*ck you. Are you f*cking insane? Woman is born to be loved and protected, not raped! You f*cking loser. It is because of the crap like you, women have to be careful at any time."

Oliver always despised such losers. He believed this world should treat women better, at least better than some sh*t men.

He wanted to find a photo of Jessica for the suspect to identify, but he noticed that he didn't have a picture of the woman on his phone. He called Shank and asked him to send Jessica's picture to him.

Oliver knocked on the suspect's head to make him see clearly. The bald man looked for a moment. "Probably not."

"Probably? You have to be sure."

"What have you done to her? Since you're married to her, please be kind to her."

"Why? Do you want to take her away from me because she's married to me?"

"Oliver, if you don't treat your wife well, you should let her go. Even though you're not happy, you shouldn't ruin her life."

Oliver sneered, "So you want to be a hero and save her?"

"She was forced to be with you. If I had met her earlier, maybe she would have been my wife."

As soon as Lambert finished speaking, Oliver hit Lambert hard on his mouth and blood immediately oozed out.

"How dare you covet my woman? I've warned you long ago." As he spoke, he punched Lambert again.

The two men began to fight.

When the servants heard the noise, they ran to the studio and pulled them away.

They knew that they were on bad terms, but they did not expect that when their father was not at home, they actually fought.

Oliver didn't come here today to fight. He had to hurry to find the woman's whereabouts. Since Lambert didn't know anything, Oliver left in a hurry.

Lambert had not seen Jessica since the night of the first snow. He did not expect her to leave now. She left sooner than he had expected.

'I should have taken her away.'