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Mark still didn't find Laura,and it was already afternoon.
The more he searched,the colder his heart became.
It seemed that Laura wasn't playing any tricks.
She had cut off all ties too cleanly.
The assistant asked a crucial question,"Have you been in touch with Madam these past few days?"
Mark slowly shook his head.
The assistant finally couldn't help but sigh,"Maybe Madam left a long time ago."
Mark was used to seeing Laura every time he came home.He took it for granted that Laura had left at most in the morning on the day he came home.
Realizing the seriousness of the problem,Mark began to use his assistant team to look for her.
At the same time,he canceled all his work for the next day.
He had to find Laura and make her lift the spell she had cast on him.
His heart was hurting so much that he felt like he was going to die.
The surveillance video and the hospital examination report were placed on Mark's desk at the same time.
Without the need for a professional,Mark could understand the words on the report himself,which indicated how serious the problem was.
Mark's blood froze.
He was lost in thought,wondering how scared she must have been at that time.
A thin and small person,dragging her painful body to the hospital alone,and then being informed that she had a terminal illness.
Did she cry?
While his heart ached so much that he could hardly breathe, Mark also suddenly thought that Laura was a very crybaby girl.
In college,when he threw away her chocolate,she cried on the spot.
It made him feel guilty and worried about it for a long time during his competition break.
So what about after getting married?
Laura was happy,so happy that she seemed to have grown wings.
But at the same time,Mark noticed that Laura never cried again.
Was it because she had changed from a little girl to his wife?
As Mrs.Mark,it seemed that Laura had lost the right to cry.
Find her,he must find her!
At this moment,Mark didn't care about whether it was a trick or not.He was completely panicked.
Laura wasn't a fairy,nor was she a tireless robot.
Mark suddenly realized that she could get sick,feel pain,give up waiting,and choose to cut off all ties.
Just thinking that Laura was now curled up in some corner waiting for death made Mark feel as if his heart was torn open.
The man who had always stood on the clouds, the favored one of heaven, finally realized that his heart, which he had always been so proud of for being as hard as a stone, had been secretly replaced with a candy.
Laura had obviously cut off all ties very cleanly.Her phone number was cancelled,her social media accounts were all deactivated,and there were no signs of her using her bank card after she left.
Mark's hands holding the report trembled,and he murmured softly,"Where could she be..."
The assistant picked up the USB drive with the surveillance video,"There might be some clues here."
Mark's assistant team was very powerful.They screened through all the surveillance videos of the places where Laura had made consumption records recently.
So now Mark could only look at the huge screen,his face turning paler by the minute.
The surveillance camera at the gate of the villa was shot from top to bottom:
Laura stood outside the iron gate,covering her abdomen with a painful expression.Her slender figure looked as if it would be blown away by the wind.
She leaned tiredly against the gate,waiting for the ride-hailing car.
Mark didn't move,but the assistant pressed the pause button."Where's the driver?"
The president's wife was seriously ill,and she still had to wait for a ride-hailing car on her way to the hospital.It was simply ridiculous!
Mark took his eyes off Laura's small and pointed face and wrung his hands tightly."I took the driver with me to pick up Lily that night."
As if he thought of something,he picked up his phone and checked the call records.Laura had called him at 7 o'clock in the morning!
The call lasted for 11 seconds.
But how could he have no impression of it at all!?
With a sense of panic as if trying to shirk responsibility,he called Lily and questioned her.
Lily was also very aggrieved. "The situation in the White family hasn't been good recently..I admit that I had the idea of marrying into the Mark family.But I didn't even know that you and Laura had a secret marriage!"
She had always thought that Mark was unmarried,so she naturally thought that she could develop a relationship with him.The union of the White and Mark families would be beneficial to both sides.
"I will also help you.Be sure to convey my apology to her when you find her."
"But Mark,you are the direct cause of all of Laura's pain."
Yes,Mark thought in a daze.
At the most helpless moment of Laura's life,the only person she could rely on was with another woman.
The phone call she made for help was even answered by another woman.
Mark wanted to kill himself.
In the surveillance video:
Laura came out of the hospital.She seemed to have become even thinner.
The woman didn't take a taxi but walked straight ahead without any purpose.
Finally,she went to a park.It was a desolate place,and its biggest feature was an artificial lake.
Mark suddenly stood up.He couldn't stop trembling.
Would Laura commit suicide?
The assistant fast-forwarded the video.Mark felt as cold as if he was covered in ice and broke out in a cold sweat.
Finally,two hours later in the surveillance video,Laura came out of the park.
Mark collapsed back into his seat,feeling completely drained.
He covered his face with his hands and began to feel an uncontrollable fear.
What if Laura was already dead,in some corner that he would never be able to find?
And he would never see her again in his life.
The surveillance video continued to play cruelly,and Mark was like a person tied to an execution bench,being repeatedly tortured by the thin and slender woman in the video.
There were bloodshot eyes all over Mark's eyes,and his eyes were blood-red.
Was she already this thin?
She looked so tired.
She didn't look happy at all.
Was this how she had been waiting at home day after day for three years?
Laura went out every day,but the surveillance showed that she was just wandering aimlessly on the street.Nothing could make her happy,and nothing could make her stop.
Until she passed by a baby products store,Laura smiled slightly.This was the only time she had smiled since she was diagnosed with cancer.
Right,she wanted a child.
Mark thought of that day.He had had a reaction at that time,and there were people next door.He was so annoyed that he pushed Laura away hard.
In fact,he also wanted a child,but he was too busy and always wanted to put it off.
He had ignored the fact that he had his own social life,work,friends,and business partners,but Laura only had him.
She must have really wanted a child to accompany her,right?
Otherwise,how lonely it would be to stay in such a big house alone.
The next scene in the surveillance video literally tore Mark's heart out.
When he saw Lily's little niece in the surveillance video,he seemed to have a premonition.
He wanted to ask someone to stop the surveillance video or get up and leave.
But his body seemed to be filled with lead.He stared at the screen like a masochist.
Laura was weak,but she ran to buy water and tissues for the little girl.She had always been a very kind person.
But the next second,he and Lily appeared in the surveillance video,walking hand in hand.
Lily complained that the little girl was walking too fast,and he smiled faintly and handed over a tissue.
"Don't look,don't look..."
Mark murmured unconsciously,but the things that had happened in the past wouldn't change just because of his plea at this moment.
Mark unconsciously shed tears all over his face.He stood up."Please,don't come out!Don't look!"
It was useless.In the surveillance video,Laura came out of the store.
There was a better mood on her face than in all these days.She wore a smile that Mark was extremely familiar with,with a dimple at the corner of her mouth.
This dimple had been shown to him countless times before.
In the surveillance video,looking at the happy three people,Laura's body stiffened inch by inch,and that dimple disappeared.
Just like Laura in the video,Mark was also in tears at this moment.
