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.

Joy… I tried… but I’m

clawed at the opening with everything she had. Her nails cracked. Blood oozed from her fingertips. Then her palms split open, skin torn, red streaks painting the

arrived. Firefighters had already sealed off the area

are over by the ambulances—some have been taken to the

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

She was still inside.

they wouldn’t let him

on

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

through

to the southeast

He grabbed a blanket and drenched it with water from

head, he charged

vast. But he’d seen her kidnapped. He’d followed the clues here. He couldn’t just stand

was still alive. And maybe he could

of hope

plunged into the smoke,

The fire hadn’t grown worse—it was

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