Michael felt his heart start to race. Taking out his phone, he tried calling Sophia.

During this time, Sophia was going down to the basement with Celine. When she received his call, she answered, “Hubby, I’m in the basement with Cece. She says there are more things to look at here.”

While he was still on the phone, Michael rushed down to the basement. He could not bear losing Sophia from his sight for even a moment now.

Because the elevators were full, he ran down the stairs from the fifth floor.

Justin, Gary, and Hale were also following him at full speed.

“Where are you? Don’t move. I’ll be right there,” he exhorted.

On the other end of the call, Sophia replied, “Okay, I—”

She stopped talking all of a sudden, making Michael’s heart skip a beat. Before he could ask her what happened, he heard her terrified scream through the phone.

“Ah!!”

Then, the phone fell to the ground and her voice was cut off.

 

Michael stopped in his tracks for a moment as shock washed over him. When he and Justin looked at each other, they saw the grave look in each other’s eyes and they immediately ran to the basement.

“Hale, seal off the whole mall! Quick!” Justin shouted an order to Hale who was behind him. Hale also seemed to have caught on and quickly went to do as he was told. He had to close down the whole building in the shortest amount of time possible.

 

But, at that very moment, an unexpected announcement was made throughout the whole mall. “Academy Award winner, Taylor Murray, is at a maternity store with his wife!”

Tons of fans poured into the mall like tidal waves and occupied all the stairs, elevators, and escalators. They kept rushing in from the ground floor all the way to the fifth floor—it looked like a zombie apocalypse.

It also frightened the workers at the store. They were a chain store that sold top-grade maternity and childcare products. Normally, they also saw their fair share of celebrities. Their confidentiality measures were taken very seriously and celebrities always entered through a special entrance.

What was happening today?

to encounter that situation. Seeing the tightly cramped heads coming all the way up from the ground

in one of the stores. He kicked it

only took thirty seconds for all the doors in the mall to seal

too late—the mall

numerous heads squeezed tightly together downstairs as they tried to get up. They were so close to each other

I see

“He’s over there!”

“I love you, Lord!”

look on Michael’s face changed. Lowering his head, he started to head back upstairs but realized that there were more fans

an army of frenzied fans blocked off the staircase and surrounded

basement right before him, Michael’s

far away! If only I had gotten there sooner, it would all be

that kept pouring in pushed up against each other until Michael couldn’t move an inch. Justin and Gary were trying to block the fans off from in front of and behind him but it was all in vain. Multiple hands kept reaching out to touch him. Even

Sophia was stepping back and trembling in fear as if she had been greatly

so much fear that her legs had started to tremble. No matter how scared she was, though,

front of her, a man slowly emerged from the dark and walked

the man’s face was getting clearer and more familiar

seen that

was also Quinton Clark’s biological father, Theo

similar appearance and height as Theo. The look in his eyes, however, gave her a deep sense of familiarity. Whenever she went to sleep at night, she often saw those mournful eyes in her

a while,

wearing gold-rimmed glasses that made him look very intellectual. His speech was refined and his handsome face carried a long-lost cheerfulness. Nonetheless, Sophia felt chilled to her bones the more

down her spine and was plagued

Clark was finally back, but he had a different face now. The face he used to have was

only apathy in her eyes, she

to back away until she heard a sound go off behind her. There’s an

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