"Jean... Jean... Wake up... Wake up..."
Jean was in a daze when she heard someone yell loudly. Finally, she came out of the coma.
When she opened her eyes, her mind was completely blank.
Not knowing what to do, she blankly stared at the far-away corner and stayed silent for a long time.
Noticing this, Moore was suddenly taken aback and he hurriedly waved his hand trying to get her attention.
'What's wrong?' he wondered to himself.
Only two hours had passed since Moore left her. But Jean looked as if she had experienced a disaster.
Moore badly wanted to call for a doctor. But before he could turn back and leave, he noticed that Jean had come to her senses. The past seconds had been awful for him, but now he sighed out of relief.
"Jean, what's wrong with you? You scared me to death..." Moore still sounded scared while he recalled her condition. "You were well when I left. Then, why did you faint?"
'Faint?' Jean wondered. Things were blurry and nothing made sense to her.
After racking her brain, she slowly recollected the incident that brought her to this.
As this scene ran across her mind again, Jean intuitively felt a shiver run down to her spine.
'Moore, it's not just you who got scared to death. In actuality, I almost died!' Jean thought.
Consumed with grief, she involuntarily closed her eyes. Deep down, she started to wonder why she didn't actually die.
By now, some of the scenes replayed inside her mind with clarity. She remembered that Shirley had shown up. 'Instead of helping Joy, she persuaded her to let me go, ' thought Jean. This piece of information puzzled her but that was how she remembered it.
'That is impossible!
Shirley hates me and would never help me!' Jean chided herself.
She was convinced that her mind had played tricks on her.
While she was lost in thoughts, a loud voice called her back to reality. "Jean, what on earth is wrong with you? Just reply to me, okay?" Moore looked pretty tense and Jean felt guilty for not acknowledging his presence.
"I'm okay," Jean said with a smile. She looked up at his tensed face and added,"I was so tired that I fell asleep..."
'Fell asleep? Didn't you faint?' Moore thought.
Doubt was still displayed on his face, but he decided he had to let it go. Moreover, Jean looked fine now and that was all that mattered to him.
"Okay. Don't scare me like this in the future," Moore warned.
"Hmm." Jean nodded at him gently, but there still remained a sadness in her eyes.
"Oh! I nearly forgot to mention. Leo gave me a phone call just now," Moore spoke hurriedly. Seeing Jean's health, this information almost slipped out of his mind.
"What?" Jean's expression of sadness was gone and now she looked curious and excited. "Did he find Lance?" questioned Jean looking completely impatient.
"Yes, he has found him." Moore nodded at Jean smilingly. "As we have expected, Leo didn't disappoint us. He hid near Lance's apartment for several hours and caught him at last."
"And then?" Jean pried for more information.
"He admitted posting the video online, but Eva made him remove it after she came to know about it. Then, he quickly deleted the post. He clearly had no idea as to what happened after that," finished Moore. Now Jean felt silly about being excited because the mission hadn't progressed at all.
The worst part was they hadn't received a single clue. Her happy face turned sulky once again.
'So our sole clue has become useless and now we have no clue at all?' Jean wondered, 'Lance is not the one behind all this. But something is so strange about this!
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