“Honey? Honey?”

Ashlyn’s hands shook even more violently. She was already too lost in her own world.

Her lips were getting paler and her throat was getting drier by the second. She felt like she could see her mother.

“Mom, please take me with you. Dad hit me again today. I miss you, mom.”

“Mom.” She extended a hand to take her mom’s before throwing herself at her.

Don’t be afraid, Lyn. She heard her mother’s voice and saw the gentle smile on her face.

“Mom,” she sobbed as tears streamed down when she felt her mother’s tight hug around her.

Her mind was getting blurrier as time went by.

“Honey? Honey, are you still with me?” Lucas asked when he felt the tight clutches on his hands loosening slowly.

He quickly embraced her cold body. “Honey, can you hear me?” His tensed voice was filled with a trace of worry he didn’t even notice.

as his voice fell. The woman never replied to

group of maintenance staff arrived with their tools. “Is anyone inside?”

he hurriedly answered. “Please hurry open

the staff immediately started pounding and prying

group worked together to crack open

did, a small ray of light finally illuminated the dark elevator. Lucas looked down to see

its color at the sight. He had

turned his gaze to the staff outside. “Hurry!

be stuck in place, though.

as a result of extreme worries and fear. He tightened his arms around her as

they had successfully opened

the unconscious Ashlyn

their bodies were all soaked in their own sweat from being inside the elevator for too

outside the elevator. They surrounded Lucas when they saw the unconscious woman in his arms. “Carry

doctors started pacing back and forth. “Oxygenate her first,” uttered one of the

the hospital bed. Her face

heart was a mess as he gloomily stared at the person

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