Chapter 52

It wasn’t even four in the afternoon when Emilia called. "Hang on, I still have some things to—" Dominic tried to ask Emilia to wait a bit longer at the cake shop, but she cut him off, sounding panicked. "Sebastian and Lucas are gone!" "What?!" When Emilia and Dominic rushed back to the Hayes residence, Mrs. Hayes was already in tears. "I just went upstairs to grab something and told the maids to keep an eye on them. When I came down… they were all gone." Dominic immediately checked the surveillance footage. Turned out, it really was the two maids—when no one was paying attention, they snuck off with the kids. Just as Dominic was about to send people to track them down, his phone rang. The caller claimed to be the kidnapper, and from the accent, he was probably a foreigner—the Mandarin was choppy. "If you care about those kids, bring five million. If not, don’t blame me for what happens next." Dominic stayed calm. "Fine. I’ll get the money. Just give me the location." As he hung up, Em