Chapter 364 An Old Friend 

Linda froze. 

She carefully took the business card from his hand. 

“What if I refuse?” she asked quietly. 

Huglan leaned against the doorframe and said nothing 

It was clear; if she refused, he wouldn’t leave. 

He had nothing left to lose. That made him fearless. 

Linda, on the other hand, was worried he would cling to her forever. 

If Rosalie really could help, that would be best. 

Maybe this favor would even make Rosalie treat her a little better. 

After hesitating, Linda still made the call. 

Rosalie had been in a bad mood because of her daughter. The phone rang several times before she finally picked up. 

“A man named Huglan told me to call you,” Linda said. 

On the other end, Rosalie jumped to her feet. Her face turned pale. 

Linda didn’t know what was happening. 

There was no sound from the phone. 

She glanced uneasily at the man who was her father in name only. 

Huglan let out a cold laugh and walked over. He took the phone from her hand. 

“It’s me,” he said. 

His voice was much lower than before, but it was still unmistakable. 

Rosalie’s voice trembled. 

“Y–you… you…” 

“Old friend,” Huglan said calmly. “Let’s meet.” 

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Alice and Eric came back together again, hand in hand. 

Daniel wasn’t surprised anymore; he was used to it. 

These two seemed to be in some strange kind of relationship. 

They looked distant, almost like strangers, but extremely close in private. 

They would risk their lives for each other, but neither would admit they liked the other. 

It was hard to define the nature of their relationship. 

Whatever. 

Daniel shook his head. He was single, after all. What right did he have to comment? 

“The flight tickets are booked,” he said as he walked over, reporting first. 

“And Mr. Eric, the person you asked me to watch, we sort of lost track of him.” 

Eric frowned at once. 

Alice took one look and guessed the answer. 

“It was Huglan, wasn’t it? If he could get here, someone must have helped him,” she said calmly. 

“Don’t rush.” 

She found it strange as well. 

Huglan was, at heart, just a man from a rural area. 

He had spent his whole life in the mountains. 

Even when he was involved in trafficking, it was only in nearby small towns. 

He had never gone far. 

This was Torenridge. It wasn’t too far from Mapleford, but back when transportation was less developed, the trip took two full days and nights 

Alice didn’t remember Huglan ever being gone that long. 

So the person helping him here was likely arranged by someone behind the scenes. 

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Thinking of this, she spoke again. 

“We shouldn’t only watch the transport hubs,” she said. 

“We should also look into how local companies in Torenridge got started. Check if any of them have been to the hill towns.” 

It sounded simple. 

However, investigating it would be exhausting. 

“Let’s start with the Previns,” Alice said after a quiet sigh. 

She made the decision. 

Honestly, she had never liked the Previns in the first place. 

When Stella got the call, she was still packing. 

She had to bring the kids and her husband. It felt less like a move and more like relocating the whole family. 

Stella had just contacted a moving company. Once everything was packed, they could leave right away. 

“You want me to look into my parents‘ past?” Stella asked. 

She wasn’t sure how to do that, but she agreed to investigate. 

“Okay,” she said. “I still have some shares, and I need to go to the office anyway.” 

After hanging up, Alice crossed the Rowlands off her list. 

The Rowlands were powerful and wealthy, but from the very beginning, they had never done anything shady. 

They would never be involved in human trafficking. 

If they were, the Rowlands wouldn’t have survived this long. 

Years ago, a boy was kidnapped; he was a future successor of a major Mapleford family. 

Back then, anyone connected to trafficking was destroyed without mercy. Almost no one got away unharmed. 

Alice had used that wave of crackdowns to send her adoptive parents to prison. 

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If anyone from Rowlands had been tied to that kind of business, the family would never have. 

grown. 

They would have fallen apart the moment her adoptive parents went to jail. 

“Let’s see what we will find on the Previns,” Alice said quietly. 

This time, she knew she was leaning too much on her instincts. 

But she couldn’t shake the feeling that the Previns were deeply involved. 

Because of the painting, they had to stay for two more days. 

Soon, news came from the police. 

Those thugs had all been arrested. When questioned about the robbery, they all claimed it was a sudden impulse. 

They refused to mention anything else. 

That only made Alice more suspicious. 

Nowadays, very few people choose to rob others. 

First, almost everyone uses cards or mobile pay now. Even at small–town street fair, vendors use card readers or tap–to–pay. 

If you rob someone, there’s barely any cash to take. You might get a phone at best, and phones can be tracked. 

Steal one, and your location might be detected within minutes. 

It’s simply not worth the risk. 

Second, there had been a lot of them that night. They acted as if they were sure Eric had something valuable and needed to get it no matter what. 

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