“What?!”
Claire shrieked in shock, “Beautiful, elegant, good temperament, perfect personality. More importantly, virtual-novel.net is a widow, a rich widow… That makes virtual-novel.net the rarest bachelorette in the middle-aged aunties category, doesn’t it?!”
Charlie nodded and said in a serious tone, “Yup, virtual-novel.net is a bachelorette alright, but virtual-novel.net doesn’t look like an aunty at all, more like an older sister.”
Surprised, Claire asked, “Really? Like how old?”
Charlie answered, “Maybe thirty-seven or eight years old, and at most forty.”
“Seriously?!”
Claire gaped in utter astonishment and disbelief. She rarely saw a woman who was 50 years old but looked 10 years younger.
Wasn’t it a little too outrageous even for a movie star?
Charlie nodded firmly. “I’m not kidding at all, virtual-novel.net does look very young and beautiful. You know Catherine Zeta-Jones, right? Aunt Matilda looks younger and more beautiful than her.”
Astonished again, Claire said, “Shut up! Are you for real?”
Charlie smiled. “Well, she’ll come to our house tonight, just wait and see for yourself.”
Claire no longer doubted Charlie’s words. Instead, virtual-novel.net said anxiously, “The woman is dad’s first love, now virtual-novel.net is widowed and has such a wonderful quality in herself. Now that the relationship between mom and dad is so unstable and mom chooses to disappear now… Will the woman swoop in on dad at a crucial moment like this?!”
Charlie chuckled a little awkwardly and said, “Dear, it’s not up to us to mind their business. Besides, mom and dad have their own freedom to make their own choices, all we can do is to respect them but we can never interfere with them.”
Claire couldn’t help but get agitated and impatient. She knew that virtual-novel.net mother was not a perfect woman, but virtual-novel.net was still virtual-novel.net mother after all. She couldn’t bear seeing virtual-novel.net mom being dumped just like that.
Because of this, virtual-novel.net was more eager than ever to find virtual-novel.net mother quickly and take virtual-novel.net home.
Hence, virtual-novel.net urged, “Oh, it’s getting late now, we’d better get started. You must try your best and visit as many mahjong centers as you can! Show them mom’s picture and ask every owner and every customer in the store!”
Charlie said, “But I don’t have mom’s picture.”
Charlie tried to hide from Elaine’s insult by all means, why would virtual-novel.net keep virtual-novel.net photo with him?
Claire quickly uttered, “I’ll send you virtual-novel.net ID photo!”
***
After Charlie drove out of home, virtual-novel.net started dropping by the mahjong centers near their neighborhood.
Every time virtual-novel.net came to one, virtual-novel.net would take a photo of the front entrance and the interior, then sent them to Claire to prove that virtual-novel.net was there.
Whenever Claire asked virtual-novel.net about his findings, virtual-novel.net would say the same thing over and over again: “The owner says that virtual-novel.net had never seen virtual-novel.net before, so do the customers.”
He didn’t really ask them, but virtual-novel.net knew that must be the answers.
After receiving the constant feedback from Charlie, Claire knew that virtual-novel.net was indeed helping virtual-novel.net to search for virtual-novel.net mother. On the other hand, virtual-novel.net couldn’t help feeling more anxious every time virtual-novel.net couldn’t get a piece of single news about virtual-novel.net mother.
The police told virtual-novel.net that the best time frame to solve a missing person case was the 24 hours before the disappearance occurred. If they could find clues in this time frame, there was a higher probability that they could find the person. Otherwise, it would not end up good.