The Billionaire Twins Need A New Mommy!-Chapter 684: Maybe it’s a mother’s instinct.

The Bennet family and the Cortez family weren’t biologically connected. Their only link was that Penny and Nina had been swapped as children. Penny grew up in the Cortez family, under her aunt Jessa’s care, for the first thirteen years of her life, while Nina was raised in the Bennet family.

Until the truth about the swap came out, the two families had no connection.

But once they learned what had happened, a bond formed between them.

Fortunately, both families got along well with Allison — Atlas’s mother — and Jessa ended up opening a restaurant with her, which they still run to this day. Because of that, they came to see each other as family.

Jessa had two children: the twins, Yugi and Yuri.

Yugi worked for Penny’s company and ran an entire department there. In fact, he was also one of the company’s shareholders.

As for his twin sister, Yuri, she used to be a teacher at Summit Excellence Academy — the same school the Bennet siblings and Lola had attended. But for some reason, Yuri eventually joined Atlas and became part of the Order.

Now, getting to the real matter at hand, Allen explained what had happened.

When Atlas left for Ravah, Sybil had raised growing concerns about Yuri. Since Atlas was already uneasy about Yuri’s disappearance, Allen decided to take the search more seriously this time.

When Allen gave the order to search for Yuri, he hadn’t thought too much about it at first. He simply wanted Yuri back in the Order by the time Atlas returned from his mission — and to ease Sybil’s worries.

Much to Allen’s dismay, every spot Yuri usually hid in had been abandoned. They had checked those places before — the first time Atlas had ordered him to bring her back — but there had been no signs she had stayed in any of them.

Allen then checked other possible hiding places, in case Yuri had avoided her usual spots. But even those turned up nothing. That was when Allen started to worry. His fears solidified when, in one of the locations his men investigated, they found Yuri’s belongings.

It was a small, 24-hour booth cafe that had been rented for nearly a year.

However, Yuri wasn’t there, only her things.

After checking the CCTV, they saw that Yuri had been staying there for quite some time. One day, she left on her own and never came back. Allen immediately launched a deeper investigation, backtracking her movements through CCTV footage to see where she had gone.

But even then, Yuri simply vanished from the cameras at one point.

"At the same time, Second Brother called me," Allen exhaled. "He told me Yuri had reached out and said she’d been abducted."

He looked up at everyone seated nearby. "But the strange part is, before she disappeared from the CCTV footage we recovered, she got into a taxi on her own. She got off in a residential area where most CCTV cameras were either limited or broken."

"Did you investigate the area where she got off?" Atlas asked.

Allen nodded. "The moment we identified the location, I sent many of our men to search every corner. But the area is already marked for redevelopment. There were very few residents left, and none of them had seen Yuri."

"How was her condition based on her voice?" Lola asked, turning to Hugo.

"She didn’t sound hurt or terrified," Hugo answered immediately. "But knowing Yuri, she doesn’t scare easily. The call was short, and it ended before she could say more. She mentioned she didn’t know where she was... but she did sound a little worried about something."

"I tried calling the number back, but it was unreachable," Hugo added. "I gave the number to Allen too, to trace the origin, but we got nothing."

"How about Penny?" Slater asked. "She runs one of the biggest cybersecurity companies. She could help, right?"

"We did contact her," Allen replied. "Though we already knew that if we couldn’t find it, they might not be able to either."

The system the Order used had been developed by Penny’s company. While the Order had modified it for their own use, its foundation came from Penny’s system. Even now, it was the best system Penny and Yugi had created together. That was why they didn’t mass-produce it, keeping it for private use within the Pierson Corporation, Prime Group, and the Order.

"Unfortunately, even Miss Penny’s team couldn’t pinpoint the source of the call," Allen sighed. "They managed to get a location, but it turned out to be an empty lot. They investigated the area, even checked underground structures — nothing."

"God..." Slater dragged a hand down his face. "Aunt Jessa’s definitely going to kill us."

"Penny and Yugi already know, and they’ve been distracting her," Hugo said. "Apparently, Aunt Jessa has been asking about Yuri lately. Maybe it’s a mother’s instinct."

Silence fell over the room again. The weight of the situation pressed heavier with every breath. Aside from Yuri being family, the mere thought of Jessa finding out terrified them.

That woman would absolutely kill them, bury them alive, or cook them.

"Since Yuri was the one who made the call, there are a few possibilities," Atlas said, deep in thought. "Either she got tangled in something she shouldn’t have, and her captors didn’t know who they had... or they never intended to ask for ransom."

"Actually, I’ve been thinking the same," Hugo said, clearing his throat as he stood and wheeled a board over. "From the footage I saw, Yuri didn’t look like she was under immediate threat."

He stopped beside the board and faced them. 𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺

"So while you guys were risking your lives in Ravah, I’ve been working on this."

He flipped the board around, revealing timestamps, maps, and notes — everything about Yuri’s disappearance.

"And after going through all of this," Hugo said, eyes on the board, "I came to one conclusion..."

He paused again and then looked back at them.

"Yuri was onto something... and whatever it was, she probably didn’t think it would lead her to something bigger than she expected."