Save Myself From Desperation by Cara Agnes novel Chapter 244

Outside the ward, Joseph followed Ashley out and wanted to hear about the surveillance.

The restaurant manager nervously asked, "Ms. Ramos, Mr. Fox, is Mr. Kingsley alright? Is he injured?"

Ashley didn't reveal the truth and vaguely said, "He's in the ward now. His injuries are not serious."

The manager breathed a sigh of relief and thought, 'Thank goodness he's okay!

'If something really happened to him, it would be troublesome, and the impact would be too widespread!

'But Ashley and Mr. Kingsley's relationship seems unusual.

'Not only did Mr. Kingsley save Ashley at the first moment, but now Ashley is also accompanying Mr. Kingsley in the hospital. What's their relationship?'

Though he was curious, he didn't dare to ask directly.

Ashley continued, "Did you find the surveillance footage?"

"Ms. Ramos, after you left yesterday, I arranged for someone to check the surveillance footage, but..." The restaurant manager frowned and paused before saying, "I don't know what happened, but since 6:10 p.m. yesterday, the surveillance suddenly malfunctioned and stopped working. It didn't capture anything."

Ashley recalled that she arrived at the restaurant around 6 p.m.

It was too coincidental.

Someone deliberately sabotaged the surveillance.

"The surveillance malfunctioned?" Joseph couldn't believe it. "Isn't that too coincidental? It's abnormally coincidental."

The manager's forehead broke out in a cold sweat as he nodded repeatedly. "Yes. So after finding out that the surveillance was broken, I asked the staff to recall the situation at that time, and there happened to be a waitress who captured a suspicious man."

"A suspicious man? Where's the photo?" Joseph immediately asked.

"Here, I brought it." The manager quickly took out his phone and brought up the photo from the album.

Ashley and Joseph looked down. The photo was blurry, like a snapshot. It showed a man wearing a black duckbill cap, and only the chin and half of his face could be vaguely seen.

The restaurant manager explained, "This waitress was secretly playing with her phone at the time. She was taking pictures of the scenery outside the restaurant and happened to capture this man. He also came to eat but requested a separate room for himself. When the waitress delivered the food, she found that this man wasn't in the room and had been away for a while. Now that I think about it, it seems strange."

Ashley immediately remembered that when she went to the restroom yesterday, someone locked the door from the outside.

Ashley glanced at Joseph.

Joseph understood and said to the manager, "Send me this photo."

He wanted to investigate who this man was.

After the manager left, Joseph turned to Ashley and asked suspiciously, "Ashley, when Valentin and I went to the restaurant to look for you yesterday, why weren't you in the private room? Instead, you were in the lobby on the first floor."

Ashley said, "I went to the restroom at that time. As soon as I entered, I sensed someone outside. I turned around to push the door but found it locked. I ended up kicking the door open."

"Really?" Joseph furrowed his eyebrows. "I'll have someone check who this man is. Once we find out, we should know what exactly happened."

Ashley nodded. They could only rely on that now.

They returned to the ward. Zain was sitting beside the bed.

But Valentin remained silent with his eyes closed. Only the sound of his shallow breathing could be heard. Other than that, he showed no response at all, as if he had fallen into a deep sleep.

From morning till afternoon, the hospital director and doctors came several times to examine Valentin's various physical indicators.

The results of the examinations were all normal, but there was still no sign of him waking up.

Ashley glanced at the time. It was already past 3 p.m. Almost twenty hours had passed since Valentin fell into a coma.

'Could our son have gone crazy?'

Ralph thought for a moment and whispered, "Valentin and Joseph's relationship has always been good. Now that Valentin is in a coma, it's normal for Joseph to be anxious."

Maggie sighed, "But Joseph is too strange. How did he end up hitting himself?"

Ralph advised, "Don't worry. Joseph has always been silly since he was a child, so it's normal for him to act like this now."

Maggie nodded. "You're right. He has never been clever since he was small."

Hearing this conversation, Joseph felt helpless.

He thought, 'I am your child, Mom and Dad!

'How can you belittle me like this?

'Am I just a foundling?'

Shortly after, Ashley received a call from Lester, saying that he was coming to visit Valentin.

In addition to Lester, George also arrived.

Zain, who had once dominated the business world in his younger years, knew about the Pliskin family's background and had heard of George and Lester as well.

Facing Zain, the former head of the Kingsley family, George and Lester greeted him politely.

They also greeted Ralph and Maggie.

Seeing Valentin sleeping on the bed, Lester furrowed his brow and thought, 'He hasn't woken up for almost a day now. It seems his injuries are somewhat serious.'