ALL six quickly confirmed their availability. After finalizing their schedule, Ariana delved into other pending tasks.
Completing her busy agenda, Ariana felt a pang seeing the vacant villa. She grabbed her keys, planning to spend the night at the apartment.
Ariana discovered the notes were missing as soon as she arrived at the apartment. Shocked, she hurried into the room.
That thief! She had almost forgotten about that. That person was blatantly shameless.
She hastily checked the surveillance video.
Connecting the monitor to her phone, she scrolled through the footage.
Initially angry, she had believed she had finally caught the culprit.
But the next moment, a familiar figure appeared in the video footage.
Ariana froze, staring blankly at the man in the video. Tears welled up, streaming down her face and hitting the screen. She watched, unable to believe her eyes, trembling uncontrollably.
“It’s him… It’s really him!” Ariana murmured, quivering.
It wasn’t a thief or an illusion. It was Theodore! He wasn’t dead!
Ariana couldn’t believe what she was seeing, rewinding the footage repeatedly while tears flowed down her face.
Her heart was a jumbled mess of emotions, filled with both the joy of having lost someone precious only to find it again and the confusion of unanswered questions that followed.
Theodore was alive! But why hadn’t he reached out to her?
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Had something happened that prevented him from locating her whereabouts? Why had he visited her apartment but not her?
She had already revealed herself on multiple occasions in public. It was impossible for him not to know where she was.
Ariana was unable to process the unexpected development, which sent her into a panic.
She knelt on the floor, staring intently at the blurry figure on her screen. Emotions were running high as tearful laughter and hysterical sobbing took turns to overwhelm her. She desperately wanted it to be real but feared it might just be a cruel illusion. She was eager to find him immediately but had no clue where to start. Her hope and despair left her paralyzed, gasping for breath.
After what felt like an eternity, Ariana finally managed to regain her composure. However, her hands still trembled slightly as she clutched her phone tightly.
She reassured herself that he would surely return, and when he did, she would confront him in person. However, a persistent doubt lingered in her mind. The timestamp on the surveillance footage indicated that the video was over two weeks old. This meant that he had not returned since that date.