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

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

sealed off the

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

among the crowd. She hadn’t been

She was still inside.

wouldn’t

on g?l

fast. He knew the dock—not well, but well enough. The Moran

couldn’t go through the front, he’d go

sprinted to

open his trunk. He grabbed a blanket

his head,

in there—the warehouse was vast. But he’d seen her

alive. And maybe he

tiny sliver of hope

plunged into the smoke, dodging the fiercest

from firefighter hoses. The fire hadn’t

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