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.

Just an address.

to accept what he was seeing, and then it

was the site of a house that had burned

Alexander handed the

any sense considering the fact that the family who owns the building

police are already on

wasn't going to

his car keys

hurried after him, barely able to keep up. "Let's

throwing himself into the driver's seat and revving the engine. He had no time to wait. If Annie had taken

now.