?<strong>Chapter 516:</strong>


    Mabel finally stepped out of her loneliness and imprisonment after a long time. She opened the door, took a few steps away from her room, and entered the living room. Sincerely, she wasn’t used to that kind of space.


    That wasn’t the case in the previous house. She had to walk down a corridor and a flight of stairs to get to the living room from her room. This apartment that was thought to be spacious was unbearably small.


    On getting to the living room, she looked around, yet there was no sign of Glenda. That was when she turned to Lanny, who recently seemed downcast as though something was eating him up.


    She walked to the refrigerator, took out a bottle of water, and casually asked, “Dad, where did Mom go? When is sheing back?”


    Lanny opened his eyes, nced at her, and closed them back. “She’lle back when she wants to.”


    His words got Mabel confused. “What do you mean by that? Where did she go to? Did she travel to a far ce?”


    Lanny didn’t exin further.


    Mabel thought something was off about him, but she couldn’t ce her finger on what it was. She threw another question at him, “When will the rebuilding of our vi bepleted? I don’t want to live here anymore.”


    She quickly shut her mouth and nervously looked at Lanny to see his reaction when she realized that her words were inappropriate.


    Lanny surprisingly didn’t react at all to what she had said. He waspletely indifferent.


    This attitude of his was extremely odd, she thought. She awkwardly returned to her room in silence with a bottle of water in her hand.


    She messaged Kaelyn when she got to her room,ining about Lanny’s sudden strange behavior to her.


    After a while, Kaelyn replied, “Are you not aware? Weren’t you informed by your dad?”


    Mabelid on the bed and typed, “Nope. He didn’t say anything to me.”


    Kaelyn’s reply came in immediately. “That’s strange. He ought to have told you that your mom had been held hostage by Jayden.”


    Mabel stared at her phone screen for a while in shock, trying to understand her words. “You mean my mom was imprisoned? Why? Why would my dad hold back something so important from me?”


    “I don’t know why, but you can ask him yourself if you don’t believe me, though I doubt he’ll tell you the truth. You should go directly to Jayden.”


    Mabel tightly gripped her phone for some time in shock. Then she slowly left her room to meet Lanny, who was seated on the sofa. “Dad, I would like you to be precise. Where did Mom go?”


    After a moment of silence, he answered, “She went out to have fun. She’ll be back before you know it.”


    Mabel dialed Glenda’s number right there, but her phone was switched off.


    She couldn’t help but tremble. “Dad, her phone is turned off. Why would she turn it off if she was out having fun?”


    Lanny calmly made up another excuse. “She was probably having so much fun that she forgot to charge her phone. You can try againter.”


    Mabel could no longer bear it. She red up, “Dad! Why don’t you tell me the truth? Where is she? Is she being held hostage by Jayden? I demand an answer!”


    Lanny froze for a second, after which he red at her and demanded harshly, “Where did you get that information from?”


    “It doesn’t matter. What matters now is that I know. So tell me if Mom is really held hostage by Jayden. Tell me this instant!” Mabel screamed at the top of her voice.


    She felt tormented more by his silence and indifferent demeanor. She hysterically shouted, “Dad! Mom was captured and you just sit still? Are you going to leave her there and do nothing? Did you even love her?”


    “Shut your mouth! This has nothing to do with you. Stay out of it! Get back to your room and don’t leave there until I say so!” he thundered, pointing to the door.


    Mabel thought Lanny was utterly ridiculous. She couldn’t believe any of it. His wife was imprisoned, and he did nothing, yet he had the guts tomand authority over her?


    Unfiltered hatred for him could be seen in her eyes. “Mom practically spent her whole life by your side. She never imagined her husband to be such a coward, did she? It’s been days already, and you show no concern, yet you tell me to stay out of it.”


    With a scoff, she added, “I won’t be a coward like you.”


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