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.

quick,” said Anthony in a worried tone. “Chrono must be trying to force your

line was cut off before he could finish

was too busy and accidentally hit the button that ended the call. It was also possible that the signal was poor, so she wasn't overly

grabbed her bag and her phone, then hurried into

with tourists at the time, but Chrono was nowhere

when she suddenly sensed a hostile aura closing in on

and a face mask was standing right behind her. The former had a pair of

scan the person in front of her. She looked into her

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

said the assassin, who smiled soon after. “Here.

going to force Francesca to check in

is Chrono? Why isn't he here?” demanded Francesca. She could somewhat sense that something

enough to accomplish this mission,” replied the assassin

“The two of you... You're not

Francesca got

She ran toward the

assassin quickly chased

the assassin fired a bullet that dug deep into the ground beside Francesca's foot.

group of men suddenly emerged from

out that her saviors were Sloan and his

much time to wonder what was going on though,

“Ms. Felch!”

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