Lost and Found: Return of My Mysterious Fiancee by KIKI

Chapter 161: Hope He is Friend, Not Foe Nathan Lehman shook his head. "No, I've checked each student discreetly, and found nothing unusual about any of them." "Keep searching," Jared Farrell's voice was hoarse. "That child is key to investigating what went wrong on Everett's last mission. We must find him." "Yes," Nathan replied, then added, "However, our investigators found that besides us, GTO and another group are also searching for the child's whereabouts, apparently the Mountain Veil Order." "Why would the Mountain Veil Order get involved?" The Mountain Veil Order was an ancient organization, mysterious in its dealings and vast in its reach, even more elusive than GTO. The members of the Mountain Veil Order rarely showed themselves. Yet now they had mobilized over this child. "We haven't figured it out yet," Nathan shook his head. "All I can say is there are too many secrets associated with Everett." Meanwhile, Tina had finished outlining the review schedule for the remaining half-month and had just settled Elena Heisler, a transfer student, when she emerged to hear Nathan utter the word 'Lark.' Her eyes narrowed, watching Jared's retreating back with a flicker of unnoticeable light. After a moment, she approached them. "What about Lark?" Jared gave Nathan a look. Nathan quickly responded, "A friend of mine got into bird-keeping recently and got himself a lark." Tina didn't press further, her gaze sweeping casually over Jared and Nathan's faces. "Everything arranged?" Jared asked Tina. "Yes," she nodded, "just the final gym class left to schedule." "Let's have it the day after tomorrow afternoon." With exams half a month away, the gym class couldn't possibly be scheduled for the last week before exams. "Okay," Tina nodded and walked toward the staff office.

As Jared glanced at Nathan before following Tina, Nathan left on his own. The two walked shoulder to shoulder up the stairs, just in tto meet Silas Blackwood coming down with a stack of exam papers. After a brief exchange of polite nods, they passed by each other. But Silas couldn't help turning back to look at them, sensing an odd tension between them, as if they had just had an argument.

Tina was indeed upset. Lark was her mother's codename. Why was Jared investigating her mother? Moreover, it seemed he was also looking for the sperson as she was. According to the information Cole Lyon found and her own investigations, the girl she was searching for was indeed a student at Ensford High School. Despite reviewing the data and observing all the students, she couldn't pinpoint her.

Her mother's last mission involved a team member skilled in disguise and espionage, a talent he apparently passed on to his daughter, enabling the girl to perfectly conceal herself. Tina placed the documents on her office desk, her eyes catching sight of a few bags of nuts. Recalling Jared feeding her nuts with a smile that morning made her heart sink. Her feelings for Jared were changing, making it hard to investigate him as she had intended.

Hearing the coden"Lark" today felt like a cold splash of water, snapping her out of the warmth of Jared's tenderness. She needed to resolve things quickly. Between her and Jared, it was tfor a conclusion. She looked at the stern man beside her, lips pursed. Jared Farrell, she hoped he was a friend, not a foe.

At 3 AM in Blue Cove apartments, a figure slipped silently from Tina's room down to the study. The study, once a mess from their previous encounters, had been tidied up, and the broken bookshelf replaced. Tina had searched here more than once and wanted to check again. She stopped at the bookshelf where she had found a locked box on a previous visit. Using her birthday as the code, she opened it to find the anklet she had lost as a child inside.

She stared at the anklet for a long while, then locked the box and took it with her. After searching the entire duplex, she stopped outside Jared Farrell's bedroom. Quietly unlocking the door, she entered. Jared lay deeply asleep on the bed, unaware that Tina had used a sedative on him. She picked up his phone from the nightstand- his computer had been searched by her before. This phone was the last unchecked item.

Unlocking it, she was stunned to see her birthday as the passcode. She glanced at Jared, who still slept peacefully, his face softening in a way it only did for her. Using a miniature computer, she connected to Jared's phone, copying all its contents, even recovering deleted data. After replacing the phone, she didn't leave but began reviewing the copied data from the balcony of Jared's bedroom.

The phone was clean except for messaging apps and a single game. He had indeed been investigating "Lark." But the specific reason behindhis investigation into her mother remained unclear, only that he was also seeking the sgirl who disappeared after her mother's last mission.

Tina's gaze fell on a regular health app. It seemed out of place for someone like Jared. She opened the app. A smile curled, ther lips. It was a disguise Shehacked through the facade to reveal a black login screen.

Using login traces from Jared's phone, she accessed it, needing a facial scan. Hesitating between waking Jared for a scan and forcefully hacking it, she chose the latter.

Then, she discovered a codenbelonging to Jared Kakrell: Wolf.