q“What is it?” she responded.

“N-Nothing! Just making sure you're okay, that's all!” Sloan replied cautiously.

“I'm fine! There's just a little problem with the examination, so it's taking a bit longer than usual. Stop rushing me!” Francesca came up with an excuse on the fly to stall for more time.

“Got it!” Sloan didn't think much about it.

“Men aren't allowed in here, so go wait outside!” Francesca added.

“All right.”

As Sloan walked down the corridor, Francesca vaulted out the window of the seventh floor and began climbing down the pipe.

Sloan had barely taken a few steps when he too, felt something was amiss.

Hold on... I only heard Ms. Cece's voice in there. I didn't hear any of the nurses or doctors at all! We may have been trying to keep a low profile, but the medical staff are still aware of our background and fear us deeply. Under normal circumstances, they would definitely have said something when I checked on her earlier! Something is definitely wrong here!

With that in mind, Sloan returned to the examination room and knocked on the door again. “Ms. Cece?”

This time, there was no response at all.

to her

the door open to have a look. However, the thought of potentially walking in on an inappropriate moment and angering Francesca

into the empty room next to it and looked out the

he saw Francesca reaching the bottom of

happened to look in his direction when he was about to call out to her, and the two of them maintained

could even react, she made a shushing motion at him

the cab speed off into the distance. It took him quite a while to regain his composure,

and yet he instinctively chose

he couldn't understand why Francesca wanted to escape, he

wanted to help her out regardless of

sense of guilt and

here?” Mylo's voice could be heard coming from

calm himself down before turning around. “I was just trying to make sure that everything is okay in the examination room

right? Was there no

a bit more time.

a sigh of relief upon hearing that. “Oh, okay... I'm

from over here because I was still a little worried, but I didn't find anything wrong either,”

sure to glance at the road and saw that the cab was far away

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