Spoiled By The CEO: Why The Wife Is Kinda Sweet? novel Chapter 246

While Anne thought her sweet thoughts to herself, Natalia didn’t know how she felt, and only felt her heart hurt the more she looked at the girl’s innocent bearing.

The two hugged for a while and separated. Worried she would get hungry, Natalia made to feed her, but Archie stopped her.

The man’s face was stern. “Don’t pamper her. Let her eat herself.”

Natalia jolted, about to say that the child was still young.

But Anne took up her spoon herself and helped herself to a mouthful.

As she chewed with puffy cheeks, she said, “I’m grown-up now, Mommy. I can eat myself, so I don’t need someone to feed me now.”

At that, Natalia had to laugh. Warmth surging into her chest, she tapped Anne lightly on the nose.

“All right. Good girl, Anne.”

Anne smiled happily.

Ariana looked at the comfy scene and smiled herself.

After the meal, the family all retired to their rooms.

Anne started whining for Natalia to tell her a story, so Natalia took her to her own bedroom.

Archie had come out in a hurry this time, and plenty of work wasn’t done yet, needing his personal attention. So the moment he went back to his room, he’d started working again.

Ariana was tired as well. She’d always had a habit of napping, so she exchanged a few more words with them and went back to her own room to sleep.

It was a peaceful and beautiful afternoon.

On the other end, though, Jessica was having a far worse time of it.

She’d been searching for Natalia everywhere with nothing to show for it. The driver she’d bought out before had also reneged on their deal and directly accused her of paying to have Natalia driven there.

The driver had also given up the bank records between the two, claiming that before Natalia had gone missing, Jessica had wired a tremendous amount of money to the driver’s account.

Examination showed that that money really had gone out from Jessica’s account.

The police didn’t hide any of the news. The moment they confirmed it, they made it public.

The news made another wave on the internet.

But this time, Jessica didn’t respond.

That night, several police officers appeared at the Miller household and took Jessica away.

Because people had suspected Jessica for a long time and the online outcry against her was huge, many tabloid reporters had already been lying in wait outside the Miller household.

Fearing, of course, that they wouldn’t get here in time to make any news if they stayed at their offices.

Unexpectedly, they’d actually scooped up something.

Seeing the policemen escort Jessica out of the Miller household, the reporters worked themselves into a frenzy swarming up for questions.

But the police were on the case, so naturally they weren’t going to get the chance.

It didn’t take long before the reporters were blocked off and Jessica was shut inside a police car.

But even with that, the reporters were satisfied.

Even though they’d missed out on the interview, with just photos and videos, they could make a killing off of views.

That night, news of Jessica being taken into police custody spread like wildfire.

Accompanied by the photos of her getting taken out of the Miller household. If there ever was a cut and dry case, this was it.

Even Jessica’s most steadfast fans were stunned at that.

They couldn’t have fathomed that their little fairy, their gentle big sister, would really have gotten taken away by the police.

Someone raised the question-

Taken away by police… didn’t that mean that Jessica really had something to do with this?

All the evidence that had leaked online previously was true, then?

Of course, someone tried to shoot it down.

Getting put in custody didn’t mean she was guilty. Maybe she was just cooperating with the investigation.

But that was debunked quickly enough.

Jessica had been taken away in cuffs. Who got handcuffed for just cooperating with the investigation?

With that, even the final wave of fans trying to defend Jessica found themselves at a loss for words.

While those fans mourned their dying love in silence-

Jessica was being interrogated in the police station.

She’d never considered that the driver would snitch on her, so she’d been brought here without any preparation.

Right now, she felt nothing except for fear and panic, so how could she say anything about it?

And Julia had already warned her that she absolutely couldn’t speak the truth.

So because of that, she clammed up further. A whole half-hour after she arrived at the station, she remained completely silent and didn’t say anything other than that she wanted her lawyer.

Seeing her attitude, the police knew that she was a public figure, so they couldn’t do anything extreme. They could only allow her to see her lawyer.

Not long afterwards, Julia arrived with a lawyer.

With his help, Jessica managed to get out a stammering statement.

Even though a lot of it didn’t line up and it wasn’t believable at all, the lawyer prosed that she’d suffered too much cyberbullying earlier, causing her mental and physical state to become unstable. That got them through for a while.

Quickly afterwards, Julia put out a request for bail.

But the request was denied by the police.

Because Natalia still hadn’t been found, and as a major suspect, Jessica had great value.

And she hadn’t explained the evidence away properly, too. They couldn’t let her leave before they found Natalia.

Julia heard that and panicked right away.

The photos of Jessica being taken away by the police had already been taken. If she didn’t get out tonight, then talk outside would intensify exponentially, to the point where she didn’t know what rumors would be flying around.

The most important thing was that she didn’t have the confidence to have Jessica stay here alone. If this confinement went on, she could buckle under the pressure and spill the beans.

But no matter how anxious Julia was, facing the completely impartial police, there was nothing she could do.

Jessica, too, was getting distressed. She looked at Julia, afraid she was going to leave her there.

Her voice trembled as she said, “You have to find some way to get me out of here, Julia. I don’t care how much money it takes. I’m not staying here.”

Julia frowned, out of options.

“I can’t think of anything right now. This has gotten too big for me to handle.”

She paused, then muttered, “They took you from the Miller household. Can’t the Miller family do something?”

Jessica jolted.

When she’d been taken away, Shawn and Henry hadn’t been home.

But it had almost been an hour since then. With the internet abuzz like this, they wouldn’t be in the dark.

But they hadn’t appeared yet.

Julia continued, “With all the years the Miller family has been putting down roots in the city and all the power they have, they must have a way to deal with this. Besides, one of them is your husband, the other is your father-in-law. If anything really did happen to you, it would affect the Miller family reputation too. They can’t leave you out to dry.”