NovelOnlineInside one of Ylore's five-star hotels, Avery had just entered the lobby after parting ways with Nick when she saw Mike sitting on
the lobby sofa.
Mike saw her and immediately got up.
"Didn't you see the message | sent you?" Mike waited for her in the lobby for three whole hours. "Let's get something to eat. I'm
starving!"
"lI was at the prison. The signal was terrible there." When Avery saw that Mike was still holding his luggage, she asked, "You haven't
checked in?"
"Not yet. You didn't tellyour room number. | want to get a room that's next to yours," Mike said. "Or we could share a
presidential suite."
Avery took him to the front desk and booked a suite for him and the bodyguard.
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"You two can stay together. I'll stay in my current one."
"Are our rooms on the sfloor?"
"Yes."
After Mike checked in, he took the luggage to the room and put it there before going to the hotel restaurant for dinner.
"Why did you go to the prison? | don't think Ivy's in prison, is she?" Mike chatted casually. "I asked Chad about it and he told me
that Elliot never found Ivy."
"Yeah." Avery's mood was much calmer than the previous day.
"You cried, didn't you? Your eyes are swollen." Mike took a deep breath before comforting her. "Don’t be sad. Finding Ivy
is the best-case scenario. It's not your fault if you can't find her. It's already been three years. That's a very long time."
"We'll never accomplish anything if we cup with reasons and excuses before we even start doing it." Avery did not have much
of an appetite when she glanced at the menu, so she handed it over to Mike.
"You're not going to stay here forever, right? " Mike took the menu and glanced at her," You should set a deadline for yourself. If
you can't find her within that tframe, you should forget about it."
"lI won't stay here too long." Avery picked up the kettle and poured herself a glass of water. "I don't think Ivy's still here."
"Oh? Do you know where she is?" Mike pushed his empty glass to her so she could pour swater for him too.
"lI don't know. All | can do is search all of our neighboring countries," Avery explained her plans. "I don't know how long it'll take to
find her, but we'll reassess that strategy again if I'm too exhausted!"
"Fine. You don’t have much to do now anyway. Then again, we can always send someone to look for her. That way, you don't need
to go there by yourself," Mike suggested. "Lots of people will want to work for us as long as we're able to pay them. We can even
request the help of more experienced detectives."
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"We'll use whatever method we can," Avery said. "Our priority is to find out whether or not she's still alive." "Okay. And by the way,
you haven't toldwhy you went to the prison." Mike picked up the water glass took a sip. "When that incident happened at the
Goulds’ residence, their driver took Ivy away. That means Ivy didn't die in that shooting. But the driver was a gambler, and he sold
Ivy to a criminal gang. | visited the prison today because | wanted to meet those people from the criminal gang."
"Oh... Did you manage to get anything useful?" Mike pressed on.
Avery shook her head. "The main players are all dead. It's only those insignificant lower-level people from the gang that are still
alive in prison. When | went there, | saw sold people, middle-aged women who were in charge of cooking, and young teens..."
Mike chuckled when he listened to her words. "You're too naive, Avery. Who told you they were insignificant? The guards in the
prison?"
"Yeah, and so did Nick."
"What does he know? He's a chameleon-the kind of person who tailors their statements to suit the audience. You'd be better off
trusting those fortune tellers on the street!" Mike gulped down the water in his glass and put it down. "Do you know what a person
needs to do to join a criminal gang?"
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