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.

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

everything she had. Her nails cracked. Blood oozed from her

arrived. Firefighters had already sealed off

by the ambulances—some have been taken to the hospital. You

over. No Hadley. She wasn’t among the crowd. She hadn’t been

She was still inside.

wouldn’t let

the rest on g𝒶l nov

the dock—not well, but well enough. The Moran family leased space

he couldn’t go through the front,

sprinted to

He grabbed a blanket and drenched it with

head,

warehouse was vast. But he’d seen her kidnapped. He’d followed

still alive. And

of hope

into the smoke, dodging

hoses. The fire hadn’t grown

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