What Separates Me and You novel Chapter 307

Lewis frowned. He briskly entered the room. It was empty, and so was the bedroom.

"How …" Gerald rubbed his eyes and hastily explained, "I've been keeping watch downstairs and never saw her come down!" Trembling, he lifted his eyes to look at Lewis and noticed Lewis' ferocious glare. Gerald shuddered and said, "I … I … I'll check the surveillance footage …"

Then, Gerald darted toward the control room while dialing the hotel manager's number.

All this fuss … Gerald couldn't get his head around it. Josephine was already a grown-up, not a three-year-old, yet Lewis got all worked up just because she went missing for a second.

Hardington was turbulent but only where the hustle and bustle were or in remote areas. It was safe within the vicinity of his hotel.

Nevertheless, Gerald checked the surveillance footage right away. The footage showed Josephine leaving the hotel room an hour ago and heading for the elevator.

However, there was no sign of her in the elevators. Therefore, she might have taken the stairs instead.

Gerald also checked the surveillance footage in the lobby, just in case. He was slightly relieved after discovering Josephine had never exited through the hotel lobby.

He made a copy of the footage and showed it to Lewis. Lewis simply glanced at the footage before hurling the tablet back at him and leaving the room. Gerald gathered some people to search the stairs.

This hotel was the largest property under Gerald and comprised more than thirty floors. It would take some time to search the whole premise.

Lewis started searching from the eighteenth floor and headed up while Gerald's men searched upward from the first floor.

They searched for over an hour, leaving no garbage can unturned, but still found no signs of Josephine.

Lewis searched his way down again from the top floor to the lobby.

He rubbed his temple as he sat on the lobby sofa. Although he said nothing, Gerald was already sweating profusely.

Gerald said softly, "Don't worry, Chairman Alvarez. I've sent some men to search every single floor. We're checking the surveillance footage too. We'll find her, for sure."

Lewis, his eyes closed, ignored him while he rambled on.

Seth returned to both of them sitting together in an unsettling atmosphere.

He walked up to Lewis and asked, "What's up? You lost her again?"

Lewis sighed and leaned back into the sofa. He pulled out a cigarette and lit it.

His reaction spoke volumes—that little mute was missing again.

Seth sat too. He helped himself to a cigarette from the table and lit it.

Gerald was reporting their findings next to them. After grasping the situation, Seth looked up at Gerald and asked, "Did you say you lost track of her after she entered the stairway?"

"That's right. Weird, isn't it?" Gerald scratched his head.

"Aren't there any surveillance cameras in the stairway?"

Gerald scratched his head as he said sheepishly, "Why would I install them in the stairway …"

"The stairs can lead to the parking lot, can't they? Have you searched the parking lot?"

Gerald nodded. "I did. Chairman Alvarez searched it once already, but I sent my men down for another round of search to ensure we didn't miss any corner."

After all, the parking lot comprised two levels; it was vast.

Listening to him, Seth leaned over and tapped the ashes off his cigarette. He cast a glance at Lewis and said slowly, "What if someone took her away from the parking lot? Will you still be able to find her?"

His question triggered more intense sweating from Gerald.

The surveillance cameras had blindspots; their coverage wasn't whole. It would be very troublesome if someone brought Josephine into a car within the blindspots of the surveillance cameras and drove out of the parking lot.

"I-It can't be …"

"Why not?" Seth chuckled. "Eyes are on her every second of the day. That person would never let any opportunity pass him by."

He clearly wasn't speaking about Lewis; it was someone else.

Lewis kept silent.

Gerald wasn't familiar with the twists and turns among them. He anxiously asked, "What should we do, then?"