Fire?
While Joe was happily waiting for his son-in-law to visit, he suddenly saw billows of smoke rising from the second floor. Then, Faye and Xyla ran outside anxiously from Faye’s room.
“Dad, the second floor is on fire!”
Joe glanced at the second floor. A trail of fire traveled down the staircase.
There was a lot of solid wood furniture at the Edwards’ ancestral home, which had been around for around 30 years already. On top of that, the hot and humid weather quickened the spread of the fire. In no time, the fire had spread to the first floor down the staircase. Joe was so shocked that he jumped out of the couch. “Let’s go! Let’s go now!”
Since most of their belongings were already moved out, there were only a few old magazines and furniture left—nothing to be missed.
In no time, Joe, Faye, Xyla, and their servants had all run out of the mansion. They stood in the garden, looking helplessly at the smoke coming out of the room.
Suddenly, Joe slapped his thighs. “Oh, God. My youngest daughter is still inside!”
They had locked Sophia and her two bodyguards in the room on the third floor! The door and windows were both tightly shut. How would they be able to escape?
When everyone ran out of the mansion that was on fire just now, they had completely forgotten about the three people in the room.
Everyone raised their head subconsciously to look at the third floor. Smoke had started escaping from the locked window.
“Save them!” Joe quickly pushed people to save the fire.
She’s my cash cow!
If my son-in-law arrives and sees a burnt corpse, there’d be nothing we could do anymore!
What if he flares up and vents his anger at me?
A few bodyguards quickly rushed to open the door. However, once they opened the door of the mansion, fire burst out from within with a whoosh. It burned the bodyguards until they retreated immediately.
“Mr. Edwards, the fire is too strong! We can’t enter!”
to put out the fire!” Joe was so scared that he
the garden. However, it was not enough. The fire quickly gobbled up the entire mansion. Just like that, the Edwards’ ancestral home
saw fire breaking out completely in the room with locked windows on the third
are
everyone in the Edwards Family were frantically trying to douse the fire, nobody noticed
the locks could not
they entered the mansion, Gemma’s mini-drone had already finished examining the entire surroundings. Before the fire got out of control, they had already escaped from the backdoor used by
saved the servant,
they left, the servant grabbed Sophia’s
her medical bills,
home, Michael had not returned yet. Recently, he went back to the filming crew to film some movies, so he would return late every
Sophia finished her dinner, she sat in the study looking at her mother’s photo album. She flipped through each photograph in the album again and
situation back then, she shouldn’t have had the money to hire a professional photographer with high-end equipment
who took these
was suddenly curious
photographs out and wiped
Nathan asked curiously, “Who
replied, “This is
saw some lightning outside the window once she raised her head. The skies near here were clear, but it seemed cloudy in Riverdale. Occasionally, streaks of light could be seen
that. “Is there a thunderstorm
really anything notable. Even so, she kept them away orderly. When I’m free, I’ll
saw
handwriting was quite nice indeed. It could almost be passed as calligraphy. Subconsciously, Sophia thought that it
of the city were present, the barbarians’ horses would never
saw two lines of fountain
X, Month X, 199X, Sunny.
this point, the writing style suddenly changed. The handwritings looked soft and wriggly, as if it was written by someone who had not written for a long time. Apart from that, there were spelling errors. It was
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