Blimey, My Kid's the Heir to the Billionaire Boss!
CChapter 327 Taking Matters into His Own Hands

Though they were someone else's children, Micah found his heart softening as he looked at the photo.

After a while, he commanded, "Get in touch with the Department of Transportation. I want all surveillance footage from around Bliss Street No. 1. I'll handle this personally!" "Yes!"

...

Mason had brought Sadie to his villa, arranging for her and Coco to get medical check-ups and care.

Sadie was restless, her mind consumed with thoughts of the children and Brenda's safety.

Mason utilized many of his connections for the investigation, and finally, around 8 p.m., he found a lead. Hurriedly grabbing his laptop, he called out to Sadie, "Sadie, come take a look." "What is it? Did you replace something?" Sadie hastened over.

Mason opened a surveillance video showing the three children descending from the bus, lingering for a minute or two on the curb, probably receiving some last words from Miss Bell from daycare, before the school bus drove off. The three kids exchanged a few words and then began walking toward home.

"Noah, Nathan, Mia..."

Tears streamed down Sadie's face as she saw her children.

"Calm down, let's keep watching," Mason urged as he opened the second video.

The first clip ended with the children walking down the street, the camera capturing only a brief segment.

In the second clip, the three children walked hand in hand along the road, but soon, they stopped and began to frolic on the wayside playfully. Then Mia pointed towards a grove of trees beside them, prompting Nathan to dash into it. Mia gave chase, and so did Noah.

The footage was silent from a street's surveillance camera, but Sadie could guess the trio had wandered into the grove lured by playful curiosity.

The video ended there, the final frame resting on Noah's retreating figure.

"Is there more footage?" Sadie pressed, urgency lacing her voice.

"That's all we have." Mason's face was taut with seriousness. "I've been to the scene. There's no trace in the grove, no cameras there either. Across the street from the grove is another road, but strangely, the surveillance footage has been wiped clean. I couldn't retrieve anything."

"How can that be?" Sadie blanched, her mind racing with dreadful possibilities. "Could it be, could it be..."

A grim conjecture flashed through her mind had the children encountered trouble on that road?

And did the culprit erase the surveillance to cover up the incident?

"Don't panic yet." Mason took her hand in a comforting grip. "I've checked all hospitals in Newark that I can influence; none admitted the three kids in the past couple of days." "Are there hospitals in Newark you can't influence?" Sadie asked urgently, trying to grasp at any straw. "What about Dahlia Hospital?"

"Not only that one." Mason's brow furrowed. "There's also a premium private hospital owned by the Clemens family, which most can't afford. I can't access their records."

A shiver ran down Sadie's spine. Could the children's disappearance be connected to Micah?

"And there's more..." Mason continued, "I've spent a lot of money and pulled some serious strings at the DMV, and even with that, I couldn't get the footage. This suggests..." "It suggests whoever erased the footage has more power than you?" Sadie concluded swiftly.

"Exactly." Mason nodded.

"It has to be him..." Sadie clenched her teeth in rage, "Micah, you monster!"

"I don't understand. Why would he kidnap those kids?" Mason asked, befuddled. "Does he know about the kids' heritage?"

"I...I don't know," Sadie admitted, panic seizing her. "If he knew, I wouldn't be as worried."

It could be a matter of wanting the children back if he knew. It was the not knowing that posed the real danger.