The Ultimate Reborn Heiress (Scarlett) novel Chapter 334

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That situation sounded even more like her own deadbeat father.

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Matthew had grown up in the Sanchezes‘ household after the Baileys passed away, essentially marrying into the Sanchezes.

In the end, he probably got involved with Leona, which was why her mother divorced him.

Even the antiques Matthew used to build his fortune had been taken from the Sanchezes.

Scarlett even suspected the car accident that left her mother in a vegetative state might’ve been connected to Matthew.

She hadn’t expected the Johnsons‘ situation to resemble the Sanchezes so closely.

Their father had married into the Johnsons.

The Johnsons weren’t considered a powerful or wealthy family.

Their assets were probably at about the same level as Matthew’s.

The siblings‘ mother and maternal grandparents had all passed away.

This meant there was basically no one left on the Johnson side except the two siblings.

Scarlett couldn’t be sure whether Ivy’s disappearance had anything to do with their father.

“So after Ivy went missing, did you call your father?”

Nathan nodded. “I did. He was shocked too, then he yelled at me.”

He blamed Nathan for taking his sister to live in Brookriver, cursing him out harshly and saying that if anything happened to her, Nathan should die as well.

Nathan’s eyes dimmed slightly.

Scarlett didn’t say anything else.

They would have to check the surveillance footage at the station first.

On the way there, Nathan told Scarlett a little more about their situation.

Their father’s name was Weston Gibson. He had married into the Johnsons. After their mother died, he remarried but never had any other children.

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Although he was now a shareholder in Johnson Group, the shares he held came with strict conditions.

If he ever had another child, the shares granted to him would become void.

That had been the decision of Nathan’s grandfather.

Scarlett thought the old man had been remarkably farsighted.

Soon, the two of them arrived at the police station.

Once inside, Scarlett ran into someone she recognized.

It was Cody, the captain of the Criminal Investigation Division at the Ureavon district branch of the Brookriver Police Department.

It was quite a coincidence–Nathan and Ivy lived in the same district where Scarlett had worked. during the first week of the show’s first season.

Ureavon.

Back then, her assigned job had been delivering takeout.

While working, she had saved a reclusive manga artist named Willow.

Willow later became one of her fans, contacted her on Instagram, and they exchanged contact information. They were friends now.

The criminal who had targeted Willow back then was a highly intelligent offender.

A serial home–invasion murderer.

But none of his killings had been discovered yet.

In the end, Scarlett had tipped off the criminal investigation team.

The captain had asked her how she’d figured out the suspect had committed other murders.

She’d made up an excuse, saying she knew a bit of physiognomy.

She’d even asked Cody whether he had some happy news coming up soon–like a wedding.

Cody had indeed been about to get married at the time, and he hadn’t even told his friends yet.

That was when he realized Scarlett really did know a little about occult matters and could read certain things from people’s faces.

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Later, the criminal investigation team dug deeper and uncovered the suspect’s earlier crimes.

That was how they finally brought him to justice.

Seeing Scarlett, Cody looked surprised.

“Ms. Sanchez, what brings you here?”

But when he noticed Nathan standing beside her, he quickly understood the reason.

“Is it about the missing girl, Ivy?”

Scarlett nodded and glanced at Nathan before explaining to Cody, “I’m friends with the siblings. When Nathan realized Ivy had disappeared, he panicked and asked me to come take a look.”

Cody said, “The child has been missing for about twenty hours hours now. We’ve already pulled all the surveillance footage from the neighborhood, but nothing unusual showed up. We also questioned the neighbors. They all said they didn’t see Ivy leave the building and didn’t notice anything suspicious. On top of that, we checked the surveillance cameras around the neighborhood too, but there’s no trace of the child anywhere.”

Nathan clenched his fists.

Scarlett felt something about Cody’s explanation didn’t quite add up.

She frowned slightly. “I’ve already looked at the layout of the building they live in, as well as the surrounding environment and the surveillance system. Whether Ivy left on her own or someone abducted her, there should still be some kind of trace. Don’t you think that’s strange, Mr. Grant?”

Then she turned to Nathan. “You live on the 16th floor, right?”

Nathan nodded. “Yes, we live on the 16th floor.”

Scarlett looked back at Cody.

She had already familiarized herself with the siblings‘ living environment.

Even if there were surveillance blind spots upstairs, there were cameras in the elevator, though none in the stairwell, which meant the upper floors still had blind spots.

But the lobby downstairs was fully covered by cameras that recorded everyone coming from the stairs or the elevator. There were no blind spots there.

So whether Ivy had left on her own or been abducted, there should still have been a trace.

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If she had left by herself, the lobby cameras should have recorded it.

If she’d been kidnapped, the cameras would have caught a stranger.

Yet Cody’s team had found absolutely nothing unusual in the footage.

How could that be possible?

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Cody frowned as well, finally realizing that something about the situation didn’t feel right.

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