Flash Marriage: Slow Down Mister novel Chapter 286

"I don't know the details either. It was so long ago and I was too young to remember anything. I only know my parents They said that Aunt Helena saved Laura and we owe her. So, we should respect her and treat her as our family. "

"Got it." Clara nodded thoughtfully, and then asked, "Who kidnapped your sister then?"

"We sent investigators and reported to the police. But still, we couldn't track down the kidnappers." Logan frowned. "Since Laura didn't get harmed or anything, we just let this matter go."

Clara grew even more suspicious after hearing Logan's answer. "Helena saving Laura has to be more than coincidental. How on earth did Helena knock out those kidnappers and save Laura? It doesn't make any sense.

The Hutchinson family has connections almost everywhere. The group of kidnappers should be a big target. How come they didn't find anything? Unless there are no kidnappers at all."

The more Clara thought about it, the surer she became about her speculation.

Clara took a sip of her coffee, trying her best to force the shock down and act calm. "Logan, Laura's birthday is coming around, isn't it?"

Logan shook his head as he smiled at Clara. "Not even close. Laura's birthday is September 12. I'll make sure you are invited to her birthday party."

"Thanks." Clara smiled back. "September 12. That is only a few days away from my birthday.

Could it be... No, it's impossible." It seemed absurd to her just to think about it.

"Helena wouldn't do such a thing. It can't be her. It can't be." Clara told herself in the back of her mind.

Logan looked at Clara, who was staring blankly at her coffee with total disbelief in her eyes and mumbling, "It can't be..."

He asked in puzzlement, "What's wrong? What can't be? "

"Oh." Logan's voice brought Clara back from her daze. "Nothing."

Clara looked at Logan, feelings mixed. "No wonder I feel so close to Logan. He could be my..." Clara forced the thought out of her head.

"I just remembered that I have something to deal with right now. Sorry, but I have to go," Clara said to Logan apologetically.

Logan smiled nonchalantly. "It's alright. Thanks for asking me out today and allowing me to take a break from my tight schedule."

"No worries." Clara was very grateful for Logan's understanding, "Catch you later then."

"Do you need a ride?"

"No, I'm fine," Clara said. "It's only a few minutes' walk from here. No need to trouble you."

"Okay then." Logan didn't insist. He knew that sometimes what he thought was kindness could be a trouble to others.

After saying goodbye, Clara went to the library in the city center.

She had to get to the bottom of this kidnap case. The daughter of the Hutchinson family being kidnapped was major news. It should be in the newspapers back then.

After arriving at the library, Clara asked the librarian where she could find the newspapers from more than two decades ago.

The librarian was an elderly woman. She glanced at Clara skeptically and asked, "It might be a little tricky. What do you need that for? We haven't been able to categorize resources from that long ago."

"I need that for a report our magazine is planning on doing." Clara made up an excuse.

The librarian nodded without asking any further questions, and took Clara to a storage room in the basement. "All the old newspapers are here. There are labels on each stack. Look for it yourself."

"Thank you," Clara said with a smile.

"No biggie. Just don't jumble up everything. Reorganizing those would be a pain." With that, the librarian turned around and left.

Clara was getting a headache when she saw the endless stacks of newspapers lining up in front of her. It would take forever for her to find the one she was looking for.

After a whole afternoon spent in the storage room, Clara finally found it. She smiled, hurriedly flatted out the newspaper on the ground, and started reading.

It turned out that when Laura was kidnapped in the delivery room before members of the Hutchinson family got to take a look at her. After the kidnappers got the ransom, they just left Laura there and ran away. Later, Laura was found by a kind woman and sent back to the hospital.

Thinking of what Logan just told her earlier, Clara speculated that this woman in the piece of news must be Helena.

But Clara still felt that something was off. If they had never seen Laura when she was born, how did they know the kid that Helena brought back was Laura? What if it was the wrong baby?

Clara gave Logan a call with these questions in mind. She needed to know what on earth happened back then.

"Hey, Clara. What's the matter?" Logan didn't know why Clara was calling at this hour. They just met earlier this day.

Clara asked directly, "Logan, I just want to ask how did you know that the baby my mother brought back is your sister?"

"Where did that come from?" Logan was confused by Clara's sudden interest in this topic.

"Just answer my question. I'll explain it to you later."

Sensing that this might be an urgent matter, Logan didn't ask much but reply, "The nurse said that there was a birthmark in the shape of a butterfly on my sister's waist when she was born. We also found that on the baby Aunt Helena brought back. That's how we know."

Hearing that, Clara's face was drained of color. She squeezed the phone in her hand, unable to utter a word.

Clara also had a birthmark on her waist. It was also in the shape of a... butterfly.