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!"

kind of terror he'd never known coursing through his veins. He couldn't even bear to think about it, surfacing for air

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

downstream, shouting Sophia's name, each dive longer

wouldn't give up, his calls for Sophia growing more desperate, his voice

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

swim would thrash around in survival instinct for

But not Sophia. Unless...

think it, but their eyes involuntarily drifted to the towering

accidentally fallen

went berserk,

worker trying to dismantle the mold and smashed it against the pillar's exterior, but

hammering like a man possessed, his palms raw and bleeding, but

a cornered animal. He pounded the column with his bare hands until his knuckles bled, ignoring his

fallen into the pillar; she just

Mr. Crawley!" The workers aside saw Brandon's energy fading and

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