Chapter 304
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Charlotte frowned and stared at the text message, deep in thought,
It could have come from Joseph’s people. But it was just as likely that someone else was impersonating them. She could not afford to act recklessly. She needed to find out where the message had come from first and decide her next move carefully. She had no intention of walking into a trap.
When she lay back down again, any trace of sleep hal vanished.
Thir
thought of her sister still missing, her fate unknown, weighed heavily on her heart. The worry was allocating
And now there was mother threat the obsessive fans of Werdy. That crazed man’s face, twisted with hatred as he had tried to throw sulfuric acid et het, was bummed into her mind. It had become a nightmare she could not shake,
Charlotte had never experienced anything like this before.
She had been lucky to escape the last attack. But what about next time?
Wendy had more than five million followers. It was easy enough to guard apalost open attacks, but the hidden threats were harder to predict Charlotte had no idea when another obsessed fan might try to come after her.
No She had to take action. She could not let what happened yesterday happen again.
Her mind spots w
with thoughts.
Eventually, exhaustion caught up with her. Her eyelids grew heavy, and she drifted off into an sy sleep.
That night, she slept fitfully, waking several times. The last time she woke was at eight in the morning, wisen daylight had finally broken,
The first thing she did upon opening her eyes was call a friend who was an expert in communications technology.
“Can you trace this number for me?*
The number from the text was not a standard eleven–digit phone number. It looked more like a long string of numbers used in spam messages,
She could not trace it herself, so she had to ask her friend for help.
“No problem,” her friend replied. “I’ll get back to you soon.”
“Thanks.”
*Don’t mention it.”
A short while later, her friend called back
“The message was sent from somewhere inside the country. The location is right here in Jersey City,”
“Jersey City? Could Joseph still have people stationed here?” Charlotte wondered.
“I’ll send you the exact address,” her friend said.
“Cury.”
After they hung up, Charlotte quickly received a message with the address.
She forwarded it to another contact and asked them to look into it.
As the heiress of the Hailey family in Jersey City, she had plenty of resources and connections. If she wanted to, she could mobilize them in an instant. Tracking something like this was nothing
Before long, her contart replied.
“it’s an apartment. The owner is Wendy Cooper”
Charlotte’s expression darkened. Wendy again.
That woman really had nothing better to do?
Her court had already been permanently banned. A legal notice had been sent. And she was still at it?
Charlzte trendered that when she had confronted Zar, Wendy had been there too. She had overheard everything they said
desperate
erprise that Wendy knee Jode had been kidnapped Clearly, getting her account banned had poshed Wendy over the edge. Now she was
“Stupid and malicious. It’s time to teach her a lesson,” Charlotte muttered.
Charlotte dug deeper and soon found information about Wendy’s father’s company. It was a small clothing business with a registered capital of only five million, and the funds had not even been fully paid in.
A company like that? She could bankrupt it with a single move.
In the past, Charlotte had always dismissed Wendy as an annoying little pest. She had never bothered to waste her time on her.
But things were different now.
Her sister had been kidnapped, Charlotte was mentally and physically exhausted, constantly on edge. And now Wendy, of all people, had chosen this moment to spread lies, incite online attacks, and encourage her fans to harm her in real life. And to top it off, she was now using Jodie to try to manipulate her.
Charlotte had had enough.
