Buying My Forever Wife novel Chapter 183

Alaric was still busy at the office.

Seeing Ivy's incoming call, he didn't ignore it, picking up his phone to answer.

From the other end of the line came Ivy's frantic, tearful voice.

"Alaric, I... I brought Stella to Metropolitan General to see my sister, and... and she suddenly disappeared. I can't find her anywhere."

"What did you say?"

Alaric shot up from his chair, shouting into the phone in a sudden fit of rage.

"Why didn't you watch her properly? Ivy, if anything happens to Stella, you're dead."

He hung up and immediately ordered his men to start searching.

Ivy could hear the sheer fury in Alaric's voice.

She knew exactly how important Stella was to him.

And in Ivy's own heart, Stella was practically family.

Ivy didn't even dare to imagine the consequences of Stella going missing.

Trembling with terror, she followed Parker to the security room, practically out of her mind, only for the administrator to deliver a crushing blow.

"The system is undergoing an upgrade today. None of the cameras are on."

Hearing this, Ivy nearly collapsed from shock.

Parker managed to catch her just in time.

"Are you okay?"

Ivy quickly pushed him away, stumbling desperately as she rushed off to continue the search.

She checked every single office in the department, but still couldn't find her. Everyone she asked said they hadn't seen a thing.

It was as if the child had vanished into thin air, entirely without a trace.

Ivy was at a total loss, her legs trembling so violently she could barely stand.

Parker reached out to support her. "Don't worry, she'll be fine."

Ivy was in a daze, her heart in her throat.

Before she could push the man away again, she looked up and saw Alaric striding hurriedly toward them.

But she had no time to focus on anything else; her mind was completely consumed with where Stella could possibly be.

The kid had barely been out of her sight for a minute—how could she just disappear?

Besides, Stella wasn't the mischievous type to run far away on her own.

She understood the dangers of wandering away from adults.

The only explanation was that someone had deliberately hidden her.

Otherwise, she wouldn't have just vanished.

Ivy turned around, intending to go back and tell Alaric that Stella must have been taken.

But she overheard Parker telling Elena,

"Ivy brought a little girl over, about four or five years old, and she got lost. We're trying to find her right now."

Elena looked at Alaric in shock. "It's not Stella, is it?"

Parker nodded. "I think that was her name."

Elena immediately chimed in, "Ivy really crossed a line here. She was supposed to watch the child, how could she be so careless?"