Chapter 56

• "I couldn't process it, I had come into the hospital with my pregnant wife expecting a newborn and now I had to leave the hospital without either of them, back then I wished I had acted differently so maybe you wouldn't have gone missing. because I became too aggressive, the doctors were scared that I may cause trouble so they sedated me and before I woke up it was already ten am the next morning, I don't blame the hospital because they didn't know we had other kids waiting for us at the hotel, they released me when I told them and when I got to the hotel, I was still thinking of how to pass the sad news on to you guys when fate slapped me with another kind of pain, I met your older siblings with the hotel management they were all in tears and you were nowhere to be seen, no one knew where or when you left the hotel, your older sibling said the last time they saw you were before they fell asleep and you were sleeping when they woke up you were no longer there, I looked for you, got the police and local newspaper involved but nothing came up, gradually the days turned into weeks, I had to bury your mom and our new baby in Netherland because I couldn't bring myself to leave without finding you, but then it never happened.
• Laura listened intently as he explained and as he continued going on in detail she felt the tears drop again and again from her eyes and she just let it flow. She had imagined a whole lot of possible scenarios but nothing had prepared her for this, she couldn't even begin to imagine it.
• "Oh my God that's so bad, I feel so stupid for thinking you guys abandoned me for other reasons,"