She actually blocked my number.
I didn’t even have time to process it. I called Remy right away. “Remy, Julia took Cindy. Did you tell her she could?”
“No, absolutely not. Where are you? I’m coming right now.” He sounded as frantic as I felt.
My anxiety just kept growing. Julia had picked up Cindy behind our backs. That could only mean trouble.
Honestly, I was sure Julia did this out of spite. She was furious about being kicked out and now she wanted payback. She was using Cindy just to hurt us.
How could anyone use their own child like that? She didn’t deserve to be a mother.
The only reason Julia managed to take Cindy was probably because Remy had introduced her to the teachers before, so they knew who she was. Otherwise, no one would have handed Cindy over to a stranger.
This was really on Remy. He kept letting me down, over and over.
Remy showed up fast. We searched everywhere Cindy might have gone, even checked all the places Julia used to stay. Nothing. No sign of them.
I couldn’t stop crying, and Remy was sweating bullets. But for once, we were in this together. Our focus was completely on Cindy.
When the teacher heard what happened, she rallied everyone. The whole staff was searching.
Then suddenly, a young teacher shouted and waved her phone. “I found her! Cindy’s here!”
She was showing us a video that was already blowing up on social media. The caption read, “Whose kid is this? Police have been called.”
In the video, you could see the Ferris wheel behind them. Julia was holding her phone in one hand and clutching Cindy in the other, crying and ranting about being robbed of her right to live with her daughter, about how unfair life was.


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