Chapter 984:

She couldn’t let Joy grow up the way she had.

She had to live. She must.

As a mother, she had no right to surrender—to abandon her child. “Joy, Joy…” Hadley repeated the name like a mantra, her voice cracking, tears streaming down her soot-streaked face.

Dragging herself across the floor, she reached for the gap in the door.

With trembling hands, she tried to widen it.

“Joy, Joy…” she whispered again.

But the iron door wouldn’t budge. She didn’t have the strength.

She screamed in frustration.

She was helpless.

I tried… but I’m so useless…” she cried out in

clawed at the opening with everything she had. Her nails cracked. Blood oozed from her fingertips.

already sealed off the

one shouted. “The rescued are over by the ambulances—some have been taken to the hospital.

the crowd. She hadn’t been taken

She was still inside.

wouldn’t let him

rest on g?l

well, but well enough. The Moran family leased space there.

he couldn’t go through

to the southeast

trunk. He grabbed a blanket and drenched it with water from several bottles

his head,

there—the warehouse was vast. But he’d seen her kidnapped. He’d followed the clues

alive. And maybe

sliver of hope was all he

smoke, dodging the fiercest

down from firefighter hoses. The fire

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