make sure all your accounts are restricted, and you’ll be grounded at home until further notice.”
Claire gasped. “You can’t do that! I’m not a child!”
“Then stop acting like one,” I snapped. “Now get out. Both of you.”
Flora, who had been silent through our fight, gently took Claire’s arm. “Come on, let’s go.”
After they left, I paced around my study, my heart pounding with anger and confusion. How did Janet suddenly become so rich, as they claimed?
Come to think of it, I remember the car I saw yesterday parked nearby our house. I haven’t seen that car in our street before.,
Was it the one that Janet has been with? Is that why she is throwing divorce up and down?
I can’t just put it in one place. The whole thing since yesterday has been so unusual. I grabbed my phone and called Janet. It went straight to voicemail. I tried again. Same result. I checked WhatsApp–she wasn’t online and my messages I sent
yesterday haven’t been read.
“Making yourself scarce, right?” I muttered, tossing my phone onto the desk.
I picked it up again and called Alex. “I need you to come to my place. We need to visit someone.”
“Sir, I was about to call you before your call came in. You are supposed to have a meeting in an hour with the Chinese
investors,” Alex replied.
“Reschedule it,” I said firmly. “This is more important.”
I dialed Rose’s number, one of the nurses in the hospital where Janet’s mother has been hospitalized for almost two years now or thereabout. If Janet is anywhere in town, she will be with her mother.
“Mr. Thayer,” her voice came through. “Nurse Rose, I’m sorry to bother, but have you seen my wife today at the hospital?” I
asked without hesitation.
“I’m sorry sir, but Mrs. Maria was moved to another hospital not too long ago. I thought you authorized that, sir?” That exactly wasn’t what I was expecting, but it became more confusing again to me. Why would Janet move her mother out from the hospital she was in? Was it out of anger from what happened yesterday?
“What? I didn’t authorize any move,” I replied to her.
“Well, sir, all her medical bills have been paid in full until her recovery, and the payment from three weeks ago was reversed to your account.”
My mind raced. This move Janet was taking is absolutely no longer her acting normal. I called Alex back immediately. “Did you move Janet’s mother to another hospital?”
“No, sir,” he sounded confused. “I didn’t know anything about a move. And the money we paid three weeks ago was returned
to our account yesterday.”
I gripped the phone tighter. Was this Janet’s game? First disappearing, then moving her mother without telling me?
“Come over to my place now,” I told Alex. “And bring the car.”
“Is everything alright?” Alex asked.
I bit my lips as I replied to him. “It’s time my wife comes home.”
