"Fraser, what's wrong with you?" Linda stood up and took Fraser's arm, asking with concern, "Is something wrong with your family?"
Fraser shook his head, "Not me, but ......"
He looked to Violet.
Violet's heart thumped and she tightened her grip on her chopsticks, "Are you trying to say that something happened to Stanley?"
Fraser's mouth opened, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end, he couldn't say anything, and just nodded heavily.
The crowd was aghast.
"No way, it's really Mr. Murphy who had an accident!" Aimee covered her mouth in surprise.
Linda was dumbfounded, "Mr. Murphy is so powerful, what can happen to him?"
"Mommy, is Daddy in danger?" At this moment, even Arya, who had always been clueless, understood what was happening at this moment, dropped the spoon in her hand, climbed off the chair, ran to Violet and hugged her leg.
Violet was still in a dazed state at the moment and didn't even bother to listen to the little girl's words.
It turned out that the uneasiness in her heart was really a harbinger of things to come.
The last time something had happened to her two children, there had been unease in her mind, and this time that unease was back, so why did she bother to ignore it?
Tears slid down Violet's eyes.
Calvin looked at her, then at his sister whose eyes were red, and finally looked at Fraser and asked, "Uncle Fraser, what happened to daddy?"
"Mr. Murphy ...... He's missing!" Fraser replied in a sad voice.
Violet stood up, "What do you mean?"
"Yes, Fraser, what do you mean? Mr. Murphy is such a big person, how could he be missing?" Linda shook Fraser's arm and asked as well.
Fraser took a deep breath before replying, "Mr. Murphy is missing and the domestic administrator and others have been searching for a day without finding him."
Boom!
Violet only felt a thunderbolt go through her head, and the whole world spun.
She pushed back her chair and stumbled a bit in her stride to Fraser, "Tell me, how did he disappear? Did Ivan kidnap him away?"
"No, but it's also related to Ivan, the administrator said that they found IvJimmyd Ivy's stronghold in J City, and when they went over to search for it, they fell for Ivan's scheme. Ivan hid explosives and gasoline in the stronghold, and when the explosives blew up, the gasoline was ignited, then they jumped into the river to avoid the fire, but to their surprise, Mr. Murphy disappeared." Fraser took off his glasses, his eyes scarlet as he replied.
As a man, tears are consistently not shed easily.
But at this moment, he couldn't help it, Mr. Murphy was not only his boss, but also his friend and benefactor, and now that something had happened to Mr. Murphy, how could he feel good in his heart?
When Violet heard that Stanley had disappeared after jumping into the river, she became dizzy in front of his eyes, her body swayed, and she was about to faint.
"Violet!" Linda and Aimee noticed her in time and both went over to hold her up before she regained her composure.
"How come? Stanley disappeared after jumping into the river, then he must be in the river, no one has gone down to the river to look for him?" Violet tightly grabbed Fraser's arm and roared with emotion.
At this moment, she was just a woman who had lost her husband, and where could she be calm when something happened to him?
Now she just wants to know if her husband is okay and where he is!
"Yeah, Uncle Fraser, hasn't anyone gone down to the river to look for daddy?" Calvin asked as he held Arya's little hand and looked at Fraser as well.
Fraser nodded, "Of course they did, many frogmen were sent down the river to look for him, but none of them found Mr. Murphy, and that river is very swift, we suspect that Mr. Murphy might have been washed away."
"Since he had been washed away, go downstream and look for him, we can always find him!" Violet yelled again.
Fraser looked at her apologetically, "I'm sorry, Mrs. Murphy, they did go downstream and couldn't find Mr. Murphy."
"How is that possible!" Aimee frowned, "Mr. Murphy disappeared in the river, even if he was washed away, he couldn't have left that river, unless ......"
"Unless he’s been rescued!" Linda's eyes lit up.
When Violet heard these words, a glimmer of hope rose in her desperate heart.
She looked at Fraser.
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