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 veins. He couldn't even bear to think about it,

nothing in sight. Sophia had

eyes red and raw, Brandon kept moving downstream, shouting Sophia's name, each dive longer than the last, becoming more frantic

Brandon wouldn't give up, his calls for Sophia growing more desperate, his voice more hoarse and shaky, until at last, he was so spent he

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

survival instinct for a bit, and

But not Sophia. Unless...

dared to think it, but their eyes involuntarily drifted

above it. If she'd accidentally fallen in there, there was no chance

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

hammer from a worker trying to dismantle the mold and smashed it against the pillar's exterior, but the mold didn't

palms raw and

reality of not finding Sophia turned Brandon into a cornered animal. He pounded the column with his bare hands

have fallen into the pillar; she

Brandon's energy fading and tried to pull him

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