Chapter 525

"Brandon! Brandon!" Daniel was freaking out, yelling his lungs out by the river's edge, but the roaring rapids swallowed Brandon's voice whole.

Daniel couldn't hear squat, couldn't see a thing, and the pitch-black river got his heart pounding like a drum solo.

Throwing caution to the wind, he spun around and yelled at the stunned crowd like a madman, "What are you gawking at? Get moving and rescue her!"

Snapped out of their daze, everyone was all over the place, reminding each other to stop work and start the rescue.

The concrete mixer which was in operation, amidst the chaos, ground to a halt too in everyone's panic.

Some people were jumping into the river, some calling 911, others trying to dismantle the foundation pillars; it was a total mess.

The moment Brandon plunged into the water, he was shouting Sophia's name, diving over and over, but despite his frantic searching, there was no sign of her, no response.

All around him, just the sound of the rushing water, fast and furious.

"Sophia!"

his blood running cold, a kind of terror he'd never known coursing through his veins. He couldn't even

undercurrent was wild, the darkness impenetrable, nothing in sight.

Brandon kept moving downstream, shouting Sophia's name,

and the prolonged soaking and diving were taking their toll on his strength, but Brandon wouldn't give up, his calls for Sophia growing more desperate, his voice more hoarse and

like Brandon, they found nothing. Sophia had disappeared without a trace, except for that unusual "plop" when

couldn't swim would thrash around in survival instinct

But not Sophia. Unless...

involuntarily

accidentally

stared closely at the pillar, too; he went berserk, screaming at the crew still extracting concrete on the

his roar, he grabbed a hammer from a worker trying to dismantle the mold and smashed it

was hammering like a man possessed, his palms raw

hammer slipped from his powerless hands. The grim reality of not finding Sophia turned Brandon into a cornered animal. He pounded the

fallen into

saw Brandon's energy fading and

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