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.

No

Just an address.

again, his brain refusing to accept what he was seeing, and then it clicked in his head that the

was the site of a house that had burned to the ground

brows clenched, Alexander handed the phone back

the family who owns the building had all died in a very terrible

already on it." Kevin instantly

Alexander wasn't going to sit around

car keys

after him, barely able to

engine. He had no time to wait.

now.