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Chapter 1612
Chapter 1612
Chapter 1612
The policeman heard him repeating the same words. When he was about to explain to him what the conditions were to classify someone as having gone missing, the other policeman grabbed his arm.
“Mr. Crawford, please give us the information about the missing lady. We'll try our best to look for her."
Luke picked up his phone and called Jason.
He answered the phone call after two beeps. Luke then ordered the person on the other end of the call, "Send Luca's details to my phone."
"Yes," Jason replied immediately. He was able to sense how nervous Luke was just by listening to his voice.
Luke received the message with Luca's details after a minute. He handed his phone to the policeman. "She left after having dinner with me last night. She didn't go home. Please help find out where she is as soon as possible."
"Yes." The policeman noted down Luca's details on his phone and left.
The policeman who was grabbed by the arm looked at his colleague and asked with confusion, "We can't take this as a missing person case. How could you agree to help him? We're going to get scolded by the chief if he finds out about it."
The policeman rolled his eyes at him. "You're new here, right? You know nothing. He's on good terms with our chief. If he says someone's missing, no matter whether it's true or not, we still have to investigate it."
The policeman understood immediately. "Then let's trace her down first."
"Alright." The other policeman nodded and agreed.
Luke did not leave with the two policemen. Instead, he went into the apartment and looked at the white space while recalling what had happened here.
The murder case had happened here, and Luca was attacked back then as well. Now, she was missing. He felt as if there was a huge mystery that was leading him to explore it deeper and deeper.
Who was manipulating Luca? What method was that party using to manipulate her?
Was it someone from the Island of Despair?
However, Luca had no tattoo on her. Annette had checked Luca's body when her leg muscles cramped in the pool that time. There was no tattoo on her body that was similar to the tattoo that Bianca's impostor had.
Luke pondered over it. He could not figure out why Luca was being manipulated.
The policemen began their investigation after they returned to the station. They started to investigate her whereabouts based on the details that Luke had provided them earlier. Then, they realized she did not purchase any tickets with her passport. That meant she did not take any transport to leave A City.
However, they could not exclude the possibility that she might have hailed a cab to leave the city.
When they were clueless about where to start, a policeman remembered that he received a call last night claiming that a young woman was abducted into a van while waiting for a taxi at the roadside. There happened to be a surveillance camera along the road, so they pulled up the footage immediately.
The clarity of the surveillance video was not the best, but they did see a woman being abducted into the van. The van drove away before the passersby managed to react.
They could not see the car plate number or the men's faces.
“How are we going to confirm if this is the woman Mr. Crawford is looking for?" one of the policemen asked.
"Wasn't Mr. Crawford having dinner with her last night? Send this photo to him and ask if she's wearing the same clothes. If it's a match, then the missing person didn't leave on her own but was kidnapped," said another policeman.
The method should be able to work, so they sent the surveillance video to Luke.
Luke was in the middle of a meeting. After he received the video and watched it, he was sure that the woman who was kidnapped was Luca without needing to look at it for the second time.
The woman in the video was dressed in the same clothes as the ones Luca was wearing last night. Furthermore, the briefcase...
Luke stood up.
One of the division managers who was reporting their job performance saw him standing up all of a sudden. He thought Luke was dissatisfied with his report, so he could not help but stammer, "Boss, is. Is there anything wrong?"
"Postpone the meeting," Luke said as he walked out.
Jason and the other division managers exchanged glances with each other after he left.
"Mr. Doyle, what's wrong with Boss?" the division manager who spoke earlier asked. They were supposed to hold the meeting earlier today, but then they were told that the meeting would be postponed. Now that they had started the meeting, it was postponed again.
Why was it so difficult to have a meeting?
Jason shook his head and stood up. "I'm not sure either. It's time for lunch now. Please have your lunch first. I'll inform everyone of the meeting time again. Kindly check your group chat when the time comes."
He left the meeting room after that.
Based on the situation now, Jason reckoned Luke was behaving unusually all because of Luca. Could it be that something had happened to Luca?
Probably not.
Although Luca would always run into something, she was good at self-defense. Nothing bad could have happened to her.
Jason was pondering while keeping up with Luke's pace. He was calling someone.
"I'm pretty sure the woman who was abducted into the car is my missing employee, Luca," Luke confirmed with the policeman through the phone.
Jason was shocked when he heard that. Luca was abducted?
After the policeman confirmed her identity, he replied immediately, "Alright. We'll investigate the direction where the car was heading based on the surveillance cameras. Don't worry, We'll find Ms. Craw."
Luke hung up the phone and glanced at Jason, who was following behind him. “Tell Percy to come to my office.”
"Yes." Jason was not surprised this time. It was because he had seen for himself how much his boss cared about Luca. Hence, he was not surprised he would ask for Percy's help to look for Luca.
Percy hurried to Luke's office after he received Jason's call.
"How's it? Where was she abducted?" He knew that Luca was Bianca. Hence, he did not make fun of Luke about it.
Luke had always been madly in love with Bianca. It was a matter of fact that he would feel anxious and worried now that she was kidnapped.
"Near the hotel. I'll send the surveillance footage to your phone now. It was an expensive van, but there's no car plate number on it," said Luke.
Percy sat on the couch and opened the video Luke had sent him. He saw the van stop at the roadside. Then, two men covered Luca's head with a gunny bag right after the door opened.
Their methods were skillful, and they knew their target well as if they had been following Luca for a long while.
"Both of you had dinner together before that?" Percy asked.
"Yes." Luke was a little regretful now for not insisting to send Luca back home.
He wanted to give her some time to be alone. After all, he was planning to slowly approach her to make her accept him again. That was why he thought he should not push her too much to prevent himself from being exposed.
She would not have gotten kidnapped by those people if he had insisted on sending her home.
It would be difficult to trace the location of the van without a car plate number even if they managed to pull up surveillance footage.