qFrancesca's place was quite some distance away from the airport, so she had to speed down the road the entire journey. Only then would she be able to make it to the airport in under thirty minutes.

I have to hurry, or that lunatic, Chrono, might do something crazy.

Francesca thought about the explosion at the orphanage and felt her heart aching.

She was moving out of the way of a truck when Anthony called her. Hence, she didn't pick up. It wasn't until she was on the highway and things were much calmer that she finally returned his call.

“Hey.”

“Where are you?”

It was noisy on Anthony's side, and she could hear children crying.

“I'm at the airport. How are things at the orphanage? Are there any casualties? Is anybody hurt?”

Francesca's heart clenched as she spoke,

“The explosion happened in the parking lot near the orphanage. It didn't take place in the orphanage itself, and a few kids fell out of their bunk beds because they were scared. Other than that, no one was injured.”

“The parking lot?” asked Francesca. She was temporarily stunned. “Then the kids are all okay?”

Francesca sighed a breath of relief. Thank the heavens that Chrono isn't a total monster and didn't actually go after the kids.

Still, I bet that little conscience he has will fade away if I didn't show up at the airport on time.

a worried tone. “Chrono must be trying to force

was cut off before he could finish

he was too busy and accidentally hit the button that ended the call. It was also possible

grabbed her bag and her phone, then hurried

filled with tourists at the time, but Chrono was nowhere

when she suddenly sensed a hostile aura closing in on her. She

cap, and a face mask was standing right behind her. The former

a little to scan the person in front of her. She looked

Chrono's ally, the assassin who faked being a doctor when we met at the

have great observational skills,” said the assassin, who smiled soon after. “Here. We got your plane ticket ready. Let's

to force Francesca to check

isn't he here?” demanded Francesca.

accomplish this mission,” replied the assassin before she shoved Francesca a little.

that's not right,” murmured Francesca while scanning the assassin suspiciously. “The two of you... You're not trying to lure me out of the way, are

in the assassin's eyes shifted a little, and Francesca got what that meant right away. “So

ran toward the

quickly chased after

the parking lot before the assassin fired a bullet

group of men suddenly emerged from

some time to recognize those men. Turned out that her saviors were Sloan and

on though, so she got into her car and sped away a

“Ms. Felch!”

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