Shadows Of A Forgotten Spring

Chapter 198

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For hours, Alexander sat in silence, his mind a battlefield of worst case scenarios. His family were out there somewhere, and he had no idea where. Every second that passed felt like an eternity, a slow, torturous countdown to a fate he couldn't bear to imagine.

The whole world was going crazy over the news, but none of them have a first hand feeling of what was going on.

Then, the door slammed open. Kevin stumbled inside, breathless, clutching a phone so tightly his knuckles had turned pale. "Sir, we have a message."

Alexander jumped to his feet and hurriedly grabbed the phone; his grasp on it was so hard his knuckles turned white, and he clicked on the message, but the message he had just received didn't make any sense at all.

It was just an address and nothing else.

threats. No demands. No

Just an address.

eyes scanned the words over and over again, his brain refusing to accept what he

was the site of a house that had

Alexander handed

that the family who owns the building had all died in a very terrible fire fifteen years

the police are already

Alexander wasn't going to sit

keys and

him, barely able to keep up. "Let's wait for

sprinted to his car, throwing himself into the driver's seat and revving the engine. He had no time to wait. If Annie had taken Emma and the twins there, if they were

now.