NovelEnglish"What?!" Claire shrieked in shock, "Beautiful, elegant, good temperament, perfect personality. More importantly, she is a widow, a rich widow... That makes her the rarest bachelorette in the middle-aged aunties category, doesn't it?!" S Charlie nodded and said in a serious tone, "Yup, she is a bachelorette alright, but she doesn't look like an aunty at all, more like an older sister." 6 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 1 0 years younger, s Wasn't it a little too outrageous even for a movie star? 1 Charlie nodded firmly. "I'm not kidding at all, she does look very young and beautiful. You know Catherine Zeta- Jones, right? Aunt Hall looks younger and more beautiful than her." Astonished again, Claire said, "Shut up! Are you for real?" Charlie smiled. "Well, she'll cto our house tonight, just wait and see for yourself." 4 Claire no longer doubted Charlie's words. Instead, she said anxiously, "The woman is dad's first love, now she 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?!" 9 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 her mother was not a perfect woman, but she was still her mother after all. She couldn't bear seeing her mom being dumped just like that, s Because of this, she was more eager than ever to find her mother quickly and take her home. 6 Hence, she 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." 5 Charlie tried to hide from Elaine's insult by all means, why would he keep her photo with him? Claire quickly uttered, "I'll send you her ID photo!" *** After Charlie drove out of home, he started dropping by the mahjong centers near their neighborhood.
Every the cto one, he would take a photo of the front entrance and the interior, then sent them to Claire to prove that he was there.
Whenever Claire asked him about his findings, he would say the samen thing over and over again: "The owner says that he had never seen her before, so do the customers." He didn't really ask them, but he knew that must be the answers. 6
After receiving the constant feedback from Charlie, Claire knew that he was indeed helping her to search for1hèr mother on the other hand, she couldn't help feeling more anxious every tshe couldn't get a piece of single news about her mother.
The police told her that the best tfrto solve a missing person case was the 24 hours before the om disappearance occurred. If they could find clues in this tframe, there was a higher probability that they could find the person. Otherwise, it would not end up good. X
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