Chapter 184

DETAINED

Hart drove with bated breath heading to the ministry. He kept trying to reach his father to find out whether he was able to trace barrister Crusoe but his line remained unreachable.

It was almost ten o'clock and his line wasn't still connecting. None of the bodyguards that went out with him had returned home last night. It was as if there was a conspiracy amongst them to abandon the mansion the moment their boss went incommunicado.

Everyone was just acting strangely - including his mother. She had suddenly packed her bags after his father left the house telling him she was going on an emergency business trip but that she would call to inform him when to join her.

"Where is this business conference, seminar, or whatever taking place?"

"We'd be touring round different countries starting from Portugal. Then we'd move to Brazil and so on."

"All within South America?" Hart had enquired. But she didn't give a definite answer.

Surprisingly, not too long after she left for the ai