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.

Cece? Ms. Cece!” he called out to her two more times, but there was still no

anxious, Sloan wanted to push the door open to have a look. However, the thought of potentially walking in on an inappropriate

a brief moment of hesitation, he ran into the

wide in horror when he saw Francesca reaching the

his direction when he was about to call out to her, and

she made a shushing motion at him and

into the distance. It took

to serve Danrique with unconditional loyalty, and

escape, he knew she must've had her reasons

such, he wanted to help her out

sense of

What are you doing here?” Mylo's voice

but he was able to quickly calm himself down before turning around. “I was just trying to make sure that everything is okay

knocked on the door, right? Was

Ms. Cece said the examination is still ongoing, and that it would take a bit more time. She also told us to stop rushing her and wait

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

because I was still a little worried, but I didn't find anything wrong either,” Sloan added while

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

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