Unexpected Blessing After Divorce

Chapter 265

Joyce’s mind went blank as though her soul had left her body, so to speak.

After a while, Joyce slowly regained consciousness. All she could feel was that she had been in a short daze, so she

was not sure whether she had misheard those words earlier.

She interrupted Hazel, “Sorry, Hazel, what did you just say? I didn’t hear you clearly. Who’s missing now?”

When Hazel first heard the news, she was shocked. Right when she was about to inform the Solace family about it.

Joyce called her. With that, she told Joyce the whole incident without hesitation, completely losing her usual

calmness.

Only after Joyce interrupted her did she calm down and realize what that piece of news would mean to Joyce.

Hazel went silent for a while and regained her senses. After deliberating for a moment, she said, “Mr. Hernandez

called me a while ago and said that while Mr. Solace was on his way to the site, a car accident, and the car fell into

the river valley.”

he got into

Hazel paused for a while on that note. She could not bring herself to continue saying what was on her mind.

That would make sense, for Joyce was only in her early thirties. Not only was Kendrick the chairman of Solace

Corporation, but he was also the patriarch of the Solace family, Joyce’s husband, and the father of their son.

“What happened next?” asked Joyce stiffly.

After all, Hazel did not follow Kendrick to Nardor, so she could not have known much about the situation there. She

could only pass Hugh’s words on to Joyce. Yet, the truth was way too cruel for Joyce. Hazel could not help but utter

in a heavy tone, “The car has been salvaged, and the driver’s body was found in the car. Kendrick’s assistants,

Lloyd Fenton and Dylan Fairwood, had also accompanied Kendrick to Nardor. Their bodies were also found by the

nearby river. Only Mr. Solace was nowhere to be found.”

Judging from the message Hazel had gotten in Nardor, they learned that Kendrick had gone missing.

Even so, everyone could more or less guess what the outcome would be. The river valley was deep, and the river

was turbulent during that season. Because of that, the car that had fallen into the valley was ripped apart, and even

the driver’s corpse was deformed. As for Lloyd and Dylan, it was said that their corpses were gruesome to look at.

Kendrick was only human, after all. He was made of flesh and blood, just the same as the driver, Lloyd, and Dylan,

so it would be pretty unlikely for him to have any chance of survival.

Hugh, on the other hand, had not been able to acclimate himself to the environment over there, so much so that

he had been vomiting and having diarrhea. He had even been admitted to the hospital for the past two days, so he

could not join the group on the journey. Just like that, he managed to escape death and survive.

After the incident, Hugh had been cooperating with the police and search and rescue personnel in Nardor, hoping

to find survivors of the crash. Even after they had finally found the three men who had been with Kendrick along

with the car, there was still no sign of Kendrick anywhere. It was then that Hugh decided to call back and inform

people.

Hugh had wanted to call Layla, but she never picked up the phone. Hence, he chose to call the Secretarial

Department.

Layla’s son was sick, so she applied for a half-day leave in the morning to get her son to see the doctor Sull, she

had yet to finish her work, so she worked overtime in the office, which was why she had not answered Hugh’s call.

Joyce clearly heard everything Hazel said at that time.

However, she still could not accept the truth.

“How could this have happened? He was only at Nardor to survey an energy project. He’d also been there not long

ago and came home just fine. How could he have met with an accident this time?” she wondered.

Joyce clenched her phone tightly and stared blankly ahead. She froze and kept mum for a very long time. Her blood

seemed to have frozen, and her limbs were numb and painful.

“Mrs. Solace?”

Seeing that Joyce had not spoken for quite some time, Hazel called out to her, “Are you okay?” Hazel’s voice jolted

Joyce back to reality. The latter closed her eyes and furrowed her brows. Biting her lip, she suppressed the

suffocating feeling in her chest and replied calmly, “Yes, I’m fine.”

After a brief pause, she went on. “Find Mr. Solace. Even if he’s dead, I must see his body. Tell Mr. Hernandez to

continue the search at Nardor until they find him. Also, make sure the news is contained. The public should never

learn about what happened to Mr. Solace!”

Hazel immediately responded, “Understood, Mrs. Solace.”

After ending the conversation with Hazel, Joyce sat there motionlessly for a couple of minutes.

The weather was so hot, but Joyce could only feel a chilly sensation in her bones, so much so that even her limbs

were hurting.

A couple of minutes later. Joyce still rose to her feet on the spot. She stepped inside the building of the inpatient

department and boarded the elevator upstairs.

In the ward. Winnie had woken up. She looked much better than before. She could also converse better with

Christopher and Yuliana.

Joyce ordered the kitchen to prepare some oatmeal for Winnie. Somehow, the staff managed to serve it plain yet

delicious. When Joyce came back to the ward, Christopher was feeding Winnie one spoonful of oatmeal after

another.

Even so, Winnie had no appetite. After finishing half a bowl of the oatmeal, she shook her head and said. “I can’t

eat anymore.”

“You’ve only taken half of it. Didn’t we agree just now that you would finish all of it?” coaxed Christopher patiently.

in

Winnie began to act like a child, trying to talk her way out of it as she pushed away the spoon Christopher’s hand

and said, “I’m so full already. I can’t go on. There’s nothing I can do about it. Don’t tell me you want to force it down

my throat?”

She was still a little too weak to speak more. After saying those words, she was already panting

Just then, Joyce came in and happened to see the scene. Her face turned pale, and her visage was icy. She was still

holding the phone in her hand so tightly that even the pack of her hand became pale as

well.

“Oh, Joyce, you’re back.” Yuliana got up as she spoke. Just as she finished the sentence, she noticed that something

was amiss with Joyce’s mien. Stunned, she questioned, “What’s wrong. Joyce?”

Upon hearing Yuliana’s words, both Christopher and Winnie turned to look at Joyce.

Joyce first met Christopher’s gaze before shifting her attention to Winnie.

Looking at how skinny and feeble Winnie seemed, Joyce held back the words she had been meaning to say in an

instant.

“I simply can’t tell Mom the news. She’ll be unable to cope. Dad’s accident has already crushed her. If

she knows about Kendrick’s accident, nothing good will come out of it,” she mused.

She mustered a smile at that thought. Yet, her lips curled upward without any emotions, and even her face

appeared to be stiff. “It’s nothing. Chris, why don’t you let Yuliana feed Mom for a while? Come out with me. I need

your help with something.”

Yuliana and Christopher both noticed how strange Joyce was behaving. As for Winnie, she was a little perplexed but

did not read too much into it. Since she really had no intention of continuing to eat, she was glad that Christopher

would be stepping out of the ward instead of trying to convince her to

eat more.

She hurriedly urged, “Go ahead.”

Christopher said nothing. After exchanging gazes with Joyce for a couple of seconds, he got up and handed the

bowl to Yuliana before following Joyce out of the ward.

Once outside the ward, Joyce stopped in her tracks.

She turned her back to Christopher. The latter could not see her face, but he could clearly see how stiff her thin

shoulders and back were. At that time, she looked as though she would collapse altogether if she ever relaxed.

Christopher had never seen Joyce like that before.

He pinned his gaze on Joyce and asked in a calm voice. “What happened, Joyce?”

At that moment, Christopher’s phone suddenly vibrated. Obviously, it was only the same sort of vibration from the

phone, just like always. For some reason, though, he could feel that the call was particularly urgent at that point.

Taking out his phone, Christopher checked the caller ID, only to find that it was Layla.

He looked at the time and thought, “She must have just gotten off the plane.”