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.

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

off before he could finish

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

grabbed her bag and her

was filled with tourists at the time, but Chrono was nowhere

was confused and was just starting to wonder what was going on when she suddenly sensed a hostile aura closing

face mask was standing

eyes a little to scan the person in front of

who faked being a

smiled soon

going to force Francesca to check

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

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

right,” murmured Francesca while scanning the assassin suspiciously. “The two of

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

turned pale. She ran toward the

quickly chased

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

a group of men

those men. Turned out that her saviors were Sloan and his

what was going on though, so she got

“Ms. Felch!”

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