The Indifferent Ex-Husband Heartstrings in the Mall of Fate

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!"

coursing through his veins. He couldn't even bear

wild, the darkness impenetrable, nothing in sight. Sophia had vanished into

moving downstream, shouting Sophia's name, each dive longer than the last, becoming

calls for Sophia growing more

workers who'd joined the search were just as frantic, but like Brandon, they found nothing. Sophia had disappeared without a trace, except for that unusual "plop"

would thrash around in survival instinct for

But not Sophia. Unless...

one dared to think it, but their eyes involuntarily

If she'd accidentally fallen in there, there was no

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

from a worker trying to dismantle the

like a man possessed, his palms raw and bleeding, but the mold wouldn't

He pounded the

fallen into the

Brandon's energy