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

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

brief moment of hesitation, he ran into the empty room next to

saw

was about to call out to her, and the two

react, she made a shushing motion at him and quickly hailed herself a

the distance. It took

and yet he instinctively chose to betray him by helping

couldn't understand why Francesca wanted to escape, he knew she must've had

he wanted to help her

strong sense of guilt

doing here?” Mylo's voice could be heard

panicked a little when he heard Mylo's voice coming from behind, but he was able to quickly calm himself down before turning around. “I was just trying to make sure that everything is okay in

door, right? Was there no response?” Mylo pressed

take a bit more time. She also

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

on the room from over here because I was still a little worried, but I

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

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