You More Than Anything In The World

Chapter 1235 Cough

David and Jason were both touched to tears at that point. “This is way too tragic!” Jason sobbed.

One of the men ran up to Tim and lifted his shirt to check his body, only to gasp in shock when he saw the scars.

“My goodness! What monster would be so cruel as to hurt a child this badly?

“I can't believe someone would abuse such an adorable child!”

“These scars look like they were from many years ago. I bet he was beaten when he was still a baby!”

While those men weren't exactly saints, they could never bring themselves to abuse a child like this.

In fact, this was their first time kidnapping children.

Zachary stole a glance at them and saw that they were gathered around Tim. He then took the phone on the table while they weren't looking and checked if it was locked with a password. His eyes lit up when he saw that a password was not required to unlock it.

He quickly gave Benjamin a call using that phone and hung up the moment the call got through.

Benjamin was waiting for an update from the men tailing Justin and Julian. He frowned in confusion when he saw an unknown number calling him and hanging up immediately.

Did this person call the wrong number, or is this...

“Jack, I want you to track down the location of this phone number right away!”

Not wanting to miss out on any possible clues, Benjamin quickly had Jack investigate the phone number.

Jack came back shortly after and said, “We have traced this number to a suburban area, Mr. Graham. It looks like a property that belongs to the Rogers family!”

The Rogers family, eh?

Benjamin's eyes narrowed when he heard that.

“Get someone to call this number and pretend to be a property agent promoting a house or something.”

“Understood! I'll get it done right away!” Jack replied.

“Put it on speaker!” Benjamin added.

Jack nodded and gave the number a call, which got through after a few seconds.

Zachary's heart raced as he wasn't sure if it was Benjamin calling back.

“Property? What property? I can't afford a house, so stop calling me or I will sue you for harassment!” Jason shouted in annoyance.

His level of impatience suggested that he had probably received lots of calls from property agents in the past.

Zachary let out a cough that was just loud enough to be heard by the person on the other line.

“I bet you guys are only calling because nobody's buying your houses! Unless you want to give me one for free, don't call me again!” Jason shouted angrily and hung up the phone.

Benjamin's expression changed the moment he heard the cough. That was a child coughing in the background!

“We're heading over there right away!”

As Benjamin had yet to receive any ransom calls from the kidnappers, he believed that call earlier was Zachary's attempt at giving him a clue and wanted to check it just in case.

“Mr. Graham, are you sure Zachary and Tim are there?”

Jack did not hear the cough earlier, so he felt confused when he saw how certain Benjamin was.

“Did you not hear the cough earlier?” Benjamin snapped at him impatiently. How incompetent! Good thing I had him put the phone on speaker!

Jack's eyes lit up when he heard that, and he quickly followed behind Benjamin as they headed over with a group of men.

Zachary felt anxious when he saw Jason hang up the phone. Was that Daddy calling just now? If it was, then I wonder if he heard my cough.

“Are you buying a house?” he asked curiously with an innocent look in his eyes.

Jason's anger seemed to subside when he heard Zachary's question. “There's no way I can afford one! Houses are ridiculously expensive now!” he replied with a helpless sigh.

“Guys like us could work our entire lives, and we'd still be unable to afford one!” David added. ConTEent bel0ngs to Nôv(e)lD/rama(.)Org .

“Does your boss not give you guys raises?” Zachary asked cunningly.

“Our boss only...” Jason was halfway through his sentence when he realized something was off and immediately stopped himself.

“We do earn quite a lot, but we also lose that money within a few days!” Abel said with a wry smile.

“Why is that?” Zachary asked curiously.