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!”
the fire brigade to put out the fire!” Joe was so scared that he almost peed his
not enough. The fire quickly gobbled
finally relieved after she saw fire breaking out completely
you are not
the Edwards Family were frantically trying to douse the fire, nobody noticed that the car Sophia
so the locks could
mansion, Gemma’s mini-drone had already finished examining the entire surroundings. Before the fire got out of control, they had already
way, they even saved the servant, who
the servant to the hospital. Before they left, the servant grabbed Sophia’s hand. “Your mom was a
medical bills,
reached home, Michael had not returned yet. Recently, he went back to the filming
finished her dinner, she sat in the study looking at her mother’s photo album. She flipped
photoshoot on the streets. Based on Annabel’s financial situation back then, she shouldn’t have had the money to hire a
who took
was suddenly
there were some bugs in the album, Sophia took all the photographs out and wiped them one by one before putting them into a
that, Nathan asked
replied, “This
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 in the clouds. After a while, thunder
after she saw that. “Is there a
continued to unpack her mother’s belongings. Apart from the photographs and notebook, there wasn’t really anything notable. Even so, she kept them away orderly. When I’m free, I’ll burn all of
saw the
study, she looked at the poem on the first page. The fountain pen handwriting was quite nice indeed. It could almost be passed as calligraphy. Subconsciously, Sophia thought that it
generals of the city were present, the
opened the first page and saw two lines of
Month X, 199X, Sunny. My
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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