A Woman Worth Billions Dated the Wrong Brother novel Chapter 381

Amber POV

Emory kept questioning him.

Names.

Accounts.

Meetings.

Properties.

People Mr. White trusted.

Oscar knew less than I wanted him to.

But then Emory asked the right question.

"If your father needed somewhere in River City where nobody would connect him to the White family, where would he go?"

Oscar hesitated.

My pulse jumped.

"You know something."

"I don't know where he is."

"That's not what he asked."

Oscar looked at me.

"My father owns properties under other names."

Emory straightened.

"Give me the names."

"There are several."

"Start."

Oscar listed two.

Then stopped.

"Jacob Sin."

I frowned.

"What?"

"Jacob Sin. S-I-N."

Emory was already writing it down.

"That's one of the identities he used for properties in River City."

"How many?"

"I don't know. Houses. Warehouses. Maybe commercial buildings."

My heart started pounding.

"Would he take Jason to one of them?"

Oscar looked at me.

"I don't know."

"Oscar."

"I don't!"

He pulled against the restraints.

"But if he took Jason, he wouldn't use anything connected to White. He knows you're going to search everything. He knows Jason has Chronos. He'd use something old. Something that existed before anyone knew what to look for."

Jacob Sin.

I looked at Pamela.

She was already moving.

"Search everything."

"Already doing it."

"Property records. Utilities. Shell companies. Tax records."

"Amber."

"Everything."

"I know."

Marcus stepped outside to make calls.

Grandpa pulled out his own phone.

Mr. Sun stood beside the window, his face frighteningly calm.

Mrs. Sun sat beside me and took my hand.

I looked at Oscar through the screen.

"One more question."

He raised his eyes.

"Did your father take Jason when he was a child?"

Oscar froze.

That was answer enough.

"Oscar."

"I don't know everything that happened."

"Did he take him?"

"I was a baby."

"That's not what I asked."

Oscar's breathing changed.

Vehicles were checked before entering the grounds.

No unidentified visitor reached our floor.

Jasmine, Noah and Daniel still considered themselves my personal protection detail, although Daniel's definition of protection included glaring at me every time my blood-pressure monitor changed.

But for the first time since Jason disappeared, we had something concrete.

A name.

Jacob Sin.

Properties hidden beneath an identity nobody had been searching.

I opened the property database Pamela sent me.

Results began appearing.

One.

Three.

Seven.

Then more.

Warehouses.

Apartments.

Commercial buildings.

Old houses.

Properties scattered throughout River City.

Places Mr. White could have prepared years ago.

Places nobody would connect to him.

Places where Jason could be right now.

I stared at the list.

Mr. White had made one mistake.

He'd spent years teaching Oscar how his operation worked.

And then he'd frightened his own son badly enough that Oscar ran.

Now Oscar was talking.

I placed my hand over my stomach and looked at the first address.

"You took him once," I whispered.

Mrs. Sun looked at me.

I didn't take my eyes off the screen.

"You don't get to keep him this time."