Chapter 193 Disappointment Welling Up
“Let me have a look too…” Dick wanted to go with them. He was genuinely anxious as well, and he wanted to find Aiden as soon as possible.
Amanda, however, whipped around to look at him. When she recalled everything that happened in the past, she gathered all her fury in her words and yelled, “Get lost! Get as far away from me as you can; I don’t want to see you ever again!”
Not just Dick, even Elias was a little startled.
Dick said in a slightly pleading tone, “What’s up with you? I didn’t want this to happen, either. I just wanted to take the kid out to play; how would I know this might happen? If I knew that I might lose the child, I would never bring him here even if it cost me my life-
Before Dick finished speaking. Amanda’s tears poured out of her eyes as she shouted furiously, “How can a father like you exist in this world? You spend every waking hour thinking of committing crimes. Have you ever done a decent thing in your entire life?!”
Dick was dumbfounded. Then, he said angrily, “How can you talk to your biological father like that?!”
“Biological father?” Amanda couldn’t help but chuckle. She even felt a little disgusted.
Amanda scolded amidst the tears, “Are you sure you’re my biological father? You worked with ruffians to kidnap me as blackmail material so that you could save your wife and children. You threatened me with Aiden so that you could get more money to waste on gambling. You even asked your son-in-law for money over and over again. Have you ever considered my feelings?! What sort of biological father are you?! You’re sc*m, through and through!”
As she roared at the top of her lungs, the people around her couldn’t help but turn to look at her.
Dick felt as if his pride was all but gone. He wished he could just disappear into thin air.
When the passersby heard Amanda’s accusation; they started pointing fingers at him.
“That’s nonsense. You… You….” Dick wanted to retort, but he couldn’t, for everything she said was true.
Amanda added, “Were any of those things false? How can you call yourself a grandfather? Get lost! I don’t want to see you for the rest of my life.”
With that, she turned around and left.
Dick wanted to go after her, but Elias pushed him aside and demanded with a vile attitude, “Didn’t you hear her? Get lost.”
“Wait, Elias. You can’t believe her nonsense. I’m her father, after all. How can I possibly be someone she made me out to be? I-”
Dick wanted to defend himself, but Elias was already losing patience. He knew more about this father-in- law of his than Amanda did; he knew a lot of things Amanda didn’t.
“I know more about your horrible deeds than Amanda does.” Elias’ expression was cold.
Dick was instantly speechless.
If this wealthy son-in-law of his wanted to investigate all the deeds he had done, it would be a walk in the
park.
Elias couldn’t be bothered to spare Dick another glance as he turned around and went after Amanda.
The onlookers began pointing fingers at Dick and criticizing him.
“I can’t believe this sort of person exists in this world. He’s nothing but sc*m for getting someone to kidnap his biological daughter. Unbelievable!”
“The daughter must have suffered a lot. I think he just lost track of his grandson too. How come people like him are still alive?”
“Useless people like him will only cause trouble for others. What a failure.”
Gravely insulted and scorned by the passers-by, Dick snarled at the people, saying, “What do you know? Shoo! Get lost, all of you!”
Hence, he ran away in shame.
However, he still wanted to find Aiden. The kid was his grandson, after all. He also felt terrible for losing the kid.
Amanda arrived at the bumper car arena. She paused in her tracks as tears rolled down her cheeks.
Elias followed behind her and said in a low voice. “What’s the matter?”
“This is Aiden’s favorite attraction. He would have a go every time he went to the amusement park. Where has he gone…”
Amanda was breaking down a little. She went through so much and finally found Dick, thinking the child would be with him, but she never expected that Aiden would go missing.
Elias pulled her into his embrace. “Don’t worry. I’m here. Have you forgotten? I’m good at looking for people. Let’s check the surveillance cameras first and see who took him away, all right?”
Amanda wiped her tears and nodded.
She didn’t have time to lament these things right now. Her utmost priority was to find the child.
Hence, the two arrived at the monitoring room of the amusement park, then checked the surveillance footage with the staff.
They finally spotted Aiden’s figure, but to their despair, they saw him sitting on the horse, waving his tiny hands happily one minute, but in the next minute, when the merry-go-round stopped, the child was suddenly gone. They couldn’t figure out who had taken him away.
“How can this be? What do we do now?”
Amanda looked at the man beside her helplessly. Her baby seemed to have vanished into thin air. It was terrifying.
The man fell into deep thought.
How could Aiden go missing just like that? When the merry-go-round stopped, many people rushed forward, so I really can’t make out who took Aiden away.
Noticing that Elias hadn’t said anything, Amanda couldn’t help but shake the man’s arm. “Say something.
Elias!”
“Calm down. I’ll think of a way. Keep watching the surveillance footage; I’ll go make a call.”
Elias seemed to have suddenly remembered something as he turned around and walked out of the monitoring room.
Amanda wasn’t in the mood to look at surveillance footage anymore. Crowds were everywhere in the surveillance footage, so it was simply too difficult to spot a three-year-old in that mess.
Amanda went out of the monitoring room as well. She caught sight of the man on the phone.
She was about to ask the man to look at surveillance footage from other angles when she overheard the man’s conversation.
Elias’ tall figure was facing away from Amanda. He said coldly to the person on the other end of the line, “Grandpa, did you take the child away again?”
Amanda was startled. Could it be Howard again?
She stared at the man’s figure, awaiting his next words.
Right after that, she heard Elias say to Howard over the phone, “Grandpa, send the child back by tomorrow morning, or I won’t go easy on you. You have one night to consider. I’ll keep it a secret from Amanda for now.”
With that, he ended the call.
Amanda subconsciously hid herself. She was in surprise, then felt disappointment welling up in her heart.
They were a family, after all. No matter how furious Elias was at Howard, he would still take the latter’s side.
Elias went back to the monitoring room and saw Amanda sitting dejectedly on a chair at the side, sighing.
Elias just thought that it might be Howard, so he called to interrogate the latter. However, Howard swore over the phone time and again that he didn’t take the child.
Howard might be lying, or he might not be. He didn’t have confirmed information yet, so he couldn’t tell Amanda for now.
When Elias walked up to Amanda, the latter looked up and asked tentatively, “Did you think of any ideas?”
“Not yet. Let’s go back first. I’ll keep looking.”
Amanda sneered in her heart.
Hah…
Just as expected, Elias wasn’t planning to tell her that Howard had taken the child. When would Elias stop condoning Howard’s actions?
She sprinted down the stairs but suddenly remembered her pregnancy and slowed down. Clutching the test strip in her hand, she wondered what Elias Winters' reaction would be once he heard the news.
Yet, when Amanda was halfway down the stairs, she saw two figures in the living room—Elias and a sexy woman. Slowing down her steps, she held the handrail tightly and felt her heart sink. That was because she saw her husband and the woman behaving affectionately as though they were a smitten couple.
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