I watched as the negotiator rush away through the emergency exit with his subordinates. It took me quite a while before I could snap out of my daze and head to the attending physician’s office to meet Ashton.

Every step I took, the phone in my pocket would vibrate. It was a call.

Baffled, I fished my phone out, only to see that it was Camelia’s number.

I thought she’d forgotten all about modern devices.

With that thought in mind, I accepted the call and lifted the phone to my ears, about to ask her where she was. “Hello, Camelia…”

“May I know if you’re the family member of the owner of this phone?”

I swallowed at the words that had been on the tip of my tongue when I heard the unfamiliar male voice from the other end of the line. He sounded emotionless, but somehow, it made pangs of worry shoot down my body.

“Are you talking about Camelia?” I asked, bewildered. “What’s the matter with her?”

“Yes, it’s best that you come to Kingston Hospital. She’s at the top of the roof, about to jump at any time!”

I came back to my senses, I darted toward the stairwell that the negotiator had headed toward earlier. “I’ll be there

only two floors away. In less than two minutes, after I bypassed the police

billowing in the morning wind. A pretty figure she was, nimble and seemingly light on her toes.

how Marcus’

leave him this

loudly against my ribcage. I did not know what to say to her. All I

she turned around and calmly said, “You’re

her head. “You’re here so quick. There are so many things I

behind me whispered, “Try to buy time with her. The

This is a joke,

in the city, but the firefighters can’t even

time for me to dwell on it. Even if the alarm bells were ringing in my head, I had to remain calm. Even letting down my guard for a split second might spell the end of

had to be to take that one step off the building. Regardless of everything, I

about you earlier too.”

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