Chapter 352

"No way!"

"Something must have happened to her!"

Solaris City.

Dawn had barely broken, but the local police station was already buzzing with activity. At the center of the commotion, a teenage boy faced off angrily against a group of adults.

Archie Fontaine was on the verge of losing it.

Mila had only been on night watch for a short while before she vanished. Judging by the footprints, she'd headed toward the forest. The two young men who'd joined their camp late that night had also disappeared.

Archie wanted to go after them, but the others held him back.

They insisted it was too dangerous to search the forest at night.

Soon, a rescue team arrived, but instead of listening to Archie, they herded everyone to the Solaris City police station for round after round of questioning. Archie demanded help, but the officers only told him those two men were suspected smugglers and the investigation was ongoing. When he pressed about Mila, all they could offer was, "We're looking, we're looking. Please be patient."

How could he possibly be patient?

If something happened to Mila-never mind what his family would do to him-he'd never forgive himself.

finally found someone who

by his side through life and

nose? The guilt gnawed at him, pushing him to the

those men-do you think we're criminals?" Archie snapped, his frustration boiling over. "If you won't do anything, I'll go search for her myself.

he turned on his heel and headed

"That's enough!"

stop him, voices rising in

seemed about to escalate a gentle female voice cut through the

"Archie?"

boy froze at the sound. The people holding him couldn't stop in time and accidentally pinned him to the

But Archie didn't care.

the dust clinging to his clothes, and rushed to the woman standing in the doorway. Grabbing her arm, he spun her around, scanning her up and down

sighed. "I'm fine. Are you all

and brought over in an army vehicle, delivered straight to the station. Even before they took off the blindfold,

could finish her question, Archie did something unexpected-he

to death," he muttered, his

but genuinely touched. After a second, she

immediately let go, concern

smiling, and coughed a few times before

but before he could say anything, Mila looked at him seriously

his head, suddenly

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