"Wait a minute…" Penny trailed off, narrowing her eyes as she processed the information. "Jonathan was supposed to be adopted, but then the family that was going to adopt him got into an accident. That stopped the adoption process, and then he ran away with ten other kids."
"And those ten children just disappeared without a trace," she whispered, leaning back as she pondered it. She had read the report from start to finish. There were a lot of alarming details, but none of them answered the million other questions swirling in her mind.
Bzt… bzt…
The sudden buzz of her phone cut through the quiet room. Glancing at the screen, Penny unhesitatingly picked it up.
"Hey there," she greeted, a slight smirk tugging at her lips. "On the way here now?"
"Mhm," came Zoren's voice from the other end. "Are you still at the office?"
"Mhm."
"Drunk?"
"Not drunk."
"Tipsy?"
"No." A shallow laugh escaped Penny as her eyes flicked toward the bottle of wine. "I didn't even take a sip."
