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!"

shake, his blood running cold, a kind of terror he'd never known coursing through his veins.

impenetrable, nothing in sight. Sophia had vanished into thin

raw, Brandon kept moving downstream, shouting Sophia's name,

on his strength, but Brandon wouldn't give up, his calls for Sophia growing more desperate, his

just as frantic, but like Brandon, they found nothing. Sophia had disappeared without a trace, except for that unusual "plop" when she fell. No cries for help,

logic. Even someone who couldn't swim would thrash around in survival instinct for a bit, and have

But not Sophia. Unless...

eyes involuntarily drifted to the towering

it. If she'd accidentally fallen in there, there

pillar, too; he went

from a worker trying to dismantle the mold

palms raw and bleeding, but

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

into the pillar; she

Brandon's energy

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