Lila's heart ached. "I'm going to find them."

Nicole panicked and grabbed her before she could take another step. After holding everything in for days, her emotions finally broke free.

She pulled Lila into a tight embrace and sobbed uncontrollably.

"Lila, you can't go! If you disappear too, I don't know how I'll go on! It's all my fault,

I never should have let Kieran go after Alfredo. This is all my fault!"

Tears streamed down her face, her body trembling violently.

She felt like the Morgans' greatest sinner.

Lila steadied her, helping her sit down, but the weight in her chest only grew heavier. Her eyes lingered on Kieran's last message from two days ago.

What should she do?

For the first time, doubt crept into her mind. Had she made a mistake?

If she had never insisted on investigating her parent's case, would Morgan Group have remained stable?

investors have dared to make a move against

suffocating pressure settled over her chest, making it hard to

family. If Lila hadn't returned when she did, Nicole would have continued enduring this pain in

Lila's

days of silence, Nicole's

the same time,

to

was

from Kieran. Emotion surged through her, her nose stinging,

was that

by a collapsing building. Kieran had been injured by a group of desperate refugees, and his arm was

worry. The government has sent a plane to evacuate its citizens. But we'll have

Alfredo spoke gently to comfort her. "Don't cry. As long as

signal on his end was weak, so they

of heavy sorrow, Nicole finally looked a little relieved.

and Kieran love my homemade ravioli. If I prepare it now,

well, and she joined

in the best health lately, seemed to regain a

the company?" He

Lila exchanged a quick, knowing glance before answering in

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