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!"

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

sight. Sophia had vanished

Sophia's name, each dive longer than the last, becoming more

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 shaky, until at

Brandon, they found nothing. Sophia had disappeared without a trace, except for that

swim would thrash around in survival instinct for a bit, and have the energy

But not Sophia. Unless...

think it, but their eyes involuntarily drifted to the towering foundation pillar above the

fallen right above it. If she'd accidentally

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

he grabbed a hammer from a worker trying to dismantle the mold and smashed it against the pillar's exterior,

his palms raw and bleeding, but the

slipped from his powerless hands. The grim reality of not finding Sophia turned Brandon into a cornered animal. He pounded the column with his bare hands until his knuckles bled, ignoring his depleted strength, and plunged back into the

fallen into

workers aside saw Brandon's energy fading and tried to pull him

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