Take Back All She Lost novel Chapter 76

osephine’s phone rang.

It was a local unfamiliar number.

She put down the glass of water she had barely sipped and said to the male reporter, “Excuse me, I need to take this call outside.”

Joshua stood up, a wicked smile on his face. “Just take it here, Ms. Copeland, so we don’t waste any time.”

Josephine frowned, her gaze turning noticeably colder.

She walked to the window and pressed the answer button. Natalia’s curious and cheerful voice came through.

“Josie, so the ring really can make calls! Too bad I can’t see you, Josie…”

Hearing Natalia’s voice, Josephine relaxed a little.

She said, “There’s a rotating knob on the side. If you twist it, you can…”

Before Josephine could finish, she suddenly felt overwhelmingly drowsy, her limbs starting to go numb.

Sensing something was wrong, she turned to look at the male reporter.

Joshua’s smile turned lecherous.

With one hand, he closed the lounge door and locked it.

Josephine, alarmed, quickly said, “Natalia, call the police…”

The next second, her phone was snatched away and smashed hard against the wall.

That unopened bottle of water–there was something wrong with it…

Josephine leaned against the glass window, her hands helplessly clawing at the glass, leaving behind several clear, eerie handprints.

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She was so sleepy, she just wanted to close her eyes and never wake up.

Josephine’s vision blurred, and she felt as if a dark shadow was approaching her.

“Ms. Copeland, just go to sleep. You’ll feel much better once you do.”

Josephine raised her hand to strike Joshua.

But her arm was limp and powerless.

She rarely panicked.

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But now, a sense of impending doom made the hairs on the back of her neck stand up, her nails repeatedly scraping against the glass.

“I… I will… kill you.”

Joshua scratched his chin and laughed. “Then let me die on top of you, Ms. Copeland.”

The man lunged at her, and Josephine gathered all her remaining strength in her right leg.

She lifted it and kicked hard at the man’s groin.

With a scream of agony, Joshua collapsed to the floor.

Josephine, as if all her strength had been drained, also fell to the ground.

Her pupils clouded over, her consciousness fading.

It was as if she heard someone banging on doors, calling out in fear, “Josephine… Josephine…”

***

When Natalia called Josephine, she was at the EternalCore Fab booth.

Zachery knew Josephine was deliberately avoiding her, so he stood not far away and didn’t

come in.

When Natalia heard Josephine say “call the police,” her face filled with shock. She turned and ran to find Zachery.

“Daddy, Daddy, something happened to Josie!”

A cold glint flashed in Zachery’s eyes. He picked up Natalia and strode quickly toward the

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exhibition area.

“Where’s Josephine?”

Theodore, who was arranging items in the display case, saw the little girl who had just come looking for Josephine now being carried by a man with silver–rimmed glasses.

In that man’s pitch–black eyes, there was a bottomless abyss, filled with darkness and a panic of the unknown.

Unaware that Josephine was in danger, Theodore replied in a flat tone, “Second floor, being interviewed.”

Zachery set Natalia down and instructed gravely, “Wait here for Daddy. Don’t move an inch.”

“I understand, Daddy. Go find Josie.”

Natalia obediently walked inside.

The moment Zachery turned around, he became icy cold and dashed upstairs to the second floor.

He banged on doors one by one, his voice both frantic and furious: “Josephine, Josephine.”

When a door wouldn’t open, he stepped back and then kicked it open with force.

Some rooms had staff eating inside.

Some rooms were discussing business deals.

Some rooms were just chatting over tea.

None of them knew who this man was or what had happened.

But from his trembling fists and increasingly pale face, they could guess he was facing something that made him deeply anxious and afraid…

***

Wilfred took Helena to a nearby hospital.

While the doctor examined Helena, Wilfred’s thoughts drifted elsewhere.

He kept wondering if Josephine was upset enough to cry, or if she felt even a little regret.

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What if she wanted to give in and come to him, but he wasn’t there–wouldn’t that be a missed opportunity…

He made a call and asked Eugene to come look after Helena.

He left the hospital and drove back to the expo venue.

Wilfred went first to the Novo Tech booth and asked the staff, “Has Josephine been here?”

The staff all said no.

Wilfred frowned and went to the EternalCore Fab booth.

Theodore was never friendly to anyone, and even less so to Wilfred, the man who had

accused his wife.

Wilfred asked him three times, Where is Josephine?

The first two times, Theodore pretended not to hear.