Mysterious Male Escort Is a Mogul

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 your hand

off before he could

that. She assumed that it was because he was too busy and accidentally hit the button that ended the call. It was also possible that the signal was poor, so she

simply grabbed her bag and her phone,

at the time, but Chrono

just starting to wonder what was going on when

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

narrowed her eyes a little to scan the person in front of

is Chrono's ally, the assassin who faked being

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

to check

isn't he here?” demanded Francesca.

am enough to accomplish this mission,” replied the assassin before she shoved Francesca a

the assassin suspiciously. “The two of you... You're not trying to lure me out

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

pale. She ran toward the

assassin quickly chased after

them made it all the way to the parking lot before the assassin fired a bullet that dug deep into the ground beside Francesca's foot.

men suddenly emerged from the shadows and

those men. Turned out that

much time to wonder what was going on though, so

“Ms. Felch!”