Right at that moment, there was a knock on the door.
Donny and Susan jumped at the sound and exchanged a look. That person had guaranteed that this was a safe place, so that was why they chose to meet up in this motel.
Was it the person they were supposed to be linking up with?
The two of them hesitated for a moment. He went closer to the door and asked, "Who is it?"
Outside the door, Hanson and Larry glanced at each other before Larry said, "I'm here for the child."
As soon as he said that, he kicked the door open.
Before Donny could even react, Larry had kicked him down to the ground.
Susan saw that things were going south, so she grabbed Jude and tried to jump out the window, but she had only taken one step when Hanson snatched the boy out of her hands and pushed her down to the ground as well.
Donny howled in pain and threatened them, "Hey! Who are you?! Why are you breaking into our room? I'll call the police on you!"
Larry stomped down on him a little harder. "No need. We've already called the police for you."
All the color drained from Susan's face. "Who are you guys?"
"You don't need to know who we are," Larry scoffed.
Donny and Susan struggled to make their escape. "Get off us! What do you want? We can give you money."
They were sensing danger by now, but thankfully, they had 75,000 on hand. They were willing to pay these guys to let them off.
Larry snorted. "All we want is to catch you guys."
They want to offer money to President Luke? What a joke!
At this moment, a group of police officers stormed into the room, and the team leader immediately instructed his men to apprehend Donny and Susan.
The team leader showed his police badge to them before saying, "There's been a report that you two are involved in child trafficking. You'll need to come with us."
"Let go of me! We're not trafficking anyone. That's my son," Susan yelled and pointed at Jude.
However, she did not have a motherly gaze when she looked at Jude. It was as if she was looking at a stranger.
None of the police officers bothered responding to what she said, and the one holding her tightened his grip on her.
Donny was fighting tooth and nail to get out of the police officers' hold as well. "You have no evidence! How can you arrest us without any evidence?! Let go of me!"
However, no matter how hard they struggled, they could not break free at all, and the police officers soon put them in cuffs.
The team leader announced sternly, "We won't arrest innocent people, but we won't let criminals go free either. Justice will be served once we take you back to the police station. Take them away."
There was no way out for them now. Furious at being caught, Donny took his rage out on Susan. He began to holler and curse at her. "B*tch! If it hadn't been for you, I wouldn't have landed in this mess! I'm going to kill you!"
He was handcuffed and unable to do anything else but hurl verbal abuse at her.
The police officers herded them out and finally, Donny's screams were out of earshot. The leader of the team then asked Hanson, "President Luke, is there anything else?"
"Not for now," Hanson said as he approached Jude, but frowned as he stared at the child.
At the same time, Vania and Linda rushed into the room.
When Vania spotted the unconscious Jude on the floor, she felt her heart drop. Her hands and lips began to tremble as she cried out frantically, "Jude, Mommy's here. Jude…"
Again and again, she called his name in an increasingly shaken voice, but Jude did not react to her cries at all.
Vania's heart crumbled to pieces. She threw herself over him and pleaded, "Jude… Jude…"
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