The next morning, Jim and Curtis headed to Howard's room together. They wanted to invite him to join them for breakfast so that they could talk.

However, there was no response from him, even though they had knocked on his door for a long time.

Curtis was alarmed. He knocked the door down with force. They rushed into the room to see that it was empty, with only a note left addressed to Yvonne.

Soon, Yvonne received the note. She read it and furrowed her brows. "Howard left."

"Did he say where he was going?" Jim asked anxiously.

Yvonne shook her head. "He only told me to take care of Jade. He said he had to do something important."

At that moment, Yvonne thought about what Howard had said to her in the garden the day before.

It turned out that the important thing he had mentioned wasn’t taking care of Jade but something else, which he wasn’t planning on telling her.

If she had sensed something was wrong back then, she would have forced Howard to tell her. It was too bad that she