The Indifferent Ex-Husband Heartstrings in the Mall of Fate

Chapter 524

Listening to the silence on the other end of the phone, Brandon's handsome face grew colder by the second.

"Go check out the power room and see what's up with the blackout," Brandon said, not missing a beat.

"Got it," Kent murmured, motioning for the security guy who had tagged along to head towards the power room with him.

Meanwhile, Brandon picked up the pace, hurrying to the construction site.

Construction Site

The sudden lights-out threw the well-organized division of labor into a bit of chaos, and the crew, who had been hard at work, erupted into a frenzy of panic and questions.

"What's going on?"

"What happened?"

"Did we lose power?"

Voices asking questions overlapped with the mechanical hum of machinery.

Sophia also glanced around, but the sudden plunge into darkness meant her eyes couldn't adjust fast enough. Plus, it was dark as the inside of a cow outside, with the rain coming down, and she couldn't see a thing.

chugging along, and she could vaguely make out the delivery pipe raised high, aiming straight for

if the blackout was a fluke or something else. Instinctively, she tightened her grip on Nell's arm next to her and called out into the darkness to Tomas,

back, edging into the crowd, "I'll have someone check

to check the time; seeing the auspicious moment slipping away, he dashed into

in a hurry, and moving fast, his body still not fully recovered, and before he knew

light it up, she saw Daniel take a tumble out of the corner of her eye, about to hit the ground hard. On instinct, she reached out and stabilized him

whom she was still holding onto, lurch violently as if someone had rammed

screen revealed the concrete delivery pump with its pipe raised

he hit the railing, his upper body almost flipped over it, and

reached out with both hands to

eyes had slowly adjusted to the dark, vaguely saw Sophia desperately and

"Watch out!"

stretching out his hand to grab Sophia, but before he could reach her, his view was blocked by someone rushing past. Through the dim vision, he saw Sophia's slender figure tilt backward

Daniel's face went white.

who she had managed to pull back, and instinctively reached out to grab something to stabilize herself, but the force was too strong, and

clear and loud. Daniel, watching Sophia fall, turned pale, and with all the force he could muster, he yelled towards

operator, focused on the task, didn't hear his command. The concrete continued to pour into the mold like a

what had happened; the site was too chaotic and dark, but