The Mysterious Billionaire and His Substitute Bride

Janet didn’t know what had happened.

She was so engrossed in the movie that she didn’t notice when the ceiling started to shake. The next thing she knew, she was lying flat on the floor of the aisle underneath Ethan as the ceiling collapsed. To her horror, something heavy fell on Ethan and she heard a loud noise.

Then it was pure chaos. The room fell into darkness. She could hear people’s screams and cries for help and Ethan’s heavy breathing.

“Ethan, are you hurt?” she asked urgently.

A faint smell of blood wafted in the air.

Janet had no idea if it was Ethan’s or someone else’s.

Having been hit just now, Ethan had rolled down the stairs. Janet’s voice trembled as she fumbled for Ethan in the darkness. “Ethan?”

She knew that he must’ve gotten hurt. She could hear his low, pained moans in the darkness.

However, after a few deep breaths, it became deathly silent. Janet couldn’t hear anything from the direction where Ethan was.

Janet wanted to rush to his side, but a ceiling frame had inadvertently caged her.

When she tried to stand up, her head hit the slate, causing a flurry of concrete powder to fall all over Janet’s face.

“Ahem!” She inhaled the powder and couldn’t stop coughing.

It was pitch black and she could barely see her hand in front of her. As she tried to get a feel for her surroundings, Janet concluded that the collapsed ceiling had fallen on top of the rows of seats, trapping them inside the aisle.

“Hello? Is anyone else there?” She shouted at the top of her lungs.

this movie, she

was eerily quiet. The cries for

ceiling had knocked

thinking too much, Janet continued

up from her knees. Janet winced and fumbled forward, trying to navigate with her palms. Finally, she touched something that felt like knitted fabric.

you hear me?” Janet tapped him, but she received no response. He must have

was near Ethan. When

blank. Suddenly,

trying to calm herself down. Then she placed her hand

few seconds,

still feel a faint breath coming from

pressed her ear against Ethan’s chest. She could hear

He was alive!

her teeth, Janet hastily wiped the blood on her knees with her hands. Then she retraced her steps back to her seat, hoping to find her phone and bag in

Consequently, the floor wos covered in broken gloss. Jonet

been texting Johonno throughout the movie,

to her seot. She fumbled oround in the dorkness, seorching for her phone. Finolly, she found it under o pile of

screen hod been crocked, but the phone itself

immediotely dioled 911. “I’m in Sherwood Cinemo ond the ceiling hos just collopsed. Pleose, we need

oll the

Seconds felt like minutes, ond

the sound

Is there onyone here?”

she heord noises from outside. It sounded like somebody wos trying to dig o hole into