A Moment in Destiny novel Chapter 37

"Peter, you're back!" William went over to Peter and patted him happily on his shoulders, "Not bad, you're still so muscular!"

 

"Mr. Rowland, I saw Sherry just now!” If Peter wasn't quick to elude Sherry, he would have been hassled by her and couldn't get away.

 

"Er!" William was stunned and his face darkened, "She saw you?"

 

Peter nodded, "Mr. Rowland, she even wanted to ask me about that issue...

 

Before he could finish, William swiftly darted out, "Mr. Rowland..”

 

Sherry looked all over for Peter, where did he go to? Where was he? She was so anxious that tears started to flow. Her beautiful face was painfully shriveled, "Mr. Mollison, where are you?”

 

Can't be found! He can't be found! Tears welled up in her eyes as she stood hopelessly at the corner of the staircase. She bent over with her hands on her knees and started to weep bitterly, "Tell me where he is! Where is he?"

 

She sobbed and slid dispirited onto the ground. She held onto her head in despair while her body shuddered as if she couldn't withstand the stress any more.

 

The phone rang but it couldn't overcome the crying of the woman. The sobs reverberated through the stairwell but no one  noticed because it was far from the office area.

 

William held onto his cell phone tightly in the security control room. He looked for her on several floors without success and decided to come to the security control room. William looked at a small woman shivering at a corner and his expression became even more profound and all the compassion erupted within him.

 

"Mr. Rowland?’ The operator in charge of the security cameras looked puzzled at William and didn't know which camera he was looking at. He simply asked the Operator to put up all the video feeds up on the screen.

 

He was gone in a flash.

 

It took William ten minutes to get to Sherry and she was still on the ground with her arms around her knees. It looked like she had maintained this position for a long time.

 

"Sherry!" A deep voice rumbled as William squat next to her. He raised her head only to see her distraught face from all the crying. William's heart ached when he saw Sherry in her pitiful state.

 

His tender gaze focused on her tear-soaked face. Sherry was frighteningly pale and was as if she had entered into an alternate universe. She sobbed softly, "I can't find... I... lean't find...”

 

William sighed as he couldn't make sense of what he was feeling.

 

"Sherry!" He shouted at her tenderly and held her hand tightly, “Hey, Sherry!”

 

Damn! She actually cried until she fainted! William carried her and went directly to the reserved lift.

 

Four o'clock in the afternoon.

 

"Why aren't Mr. Rowland and Ms. Murray here? Aren't we having a meeting?” Liam and the rest were already in the conference room without the two key players.

 

Have they eloped? Liam pursed his lips. Impossible. Knowing Will's character, he shouldn't have.

 

MH residence.

 

The afternoon sun rays penetrated the lace curtains and shone onto a woman who was sleeping on the bed. Her long eyelashes were quivering in her sleep.

 

William knew that she was having a nightmare again.

 

In the dark, someone wearing a mask of a fox and carrying a baby scoffed and disappeared!

 

"Don't go!” She wanted to grab him but she couldn't grab anything. Suddenly, another man walked over. His facial features were distinct with a pair of eyes that were sharp like eagles. He warmly held her hand and said, “You are my woman...’

 

He was William.

 

She turned her head and saw the man with the mask of a fox. She immediately stretched out her hand and shouted anxiously, 

 

"Don't leave, don't leave..”

 

But as she stretched out her hand, the man started to ripple like water as Sherry stared at her empty hands and the mysterious man went further and further into the distance.

 

"Don't go!" Her tears started to flow and Sherry fell onto the ground, “Return my child to me...”

 

William closed his eyes rapidly when he heard this. He wondered if he had been too cruel?

 

He looked profoundly at Sherry who was having a nightmare. Her face was pale as a sheet of paper. It looked like the appearance of Peter had traumatized her. It appeared that she didn't forget that incident! She actually didn't forget! Looking at her reaction, he was worried that she would detest him if he were to tell her the truth.

 

Sherry seemed to come to her senses and she suddenly thought about Dan. She couldn't sleep. She still had Dan. She needed to look for Dan!

 

William's eyes were fixated onto Sherry's tear-soaked face as she stirred in the large white bed. What had she dreamt? He was wondering as he held firmly onto her tightly clenched hand and said with a deep voice, "Wake up”

 

Suddenly, Sherry grabbed onto his hand tightly as if he was her only lifeline and only reliance.

 

"Sherry, wake up, you're having a nightmare!”

 

Sherry suddenly opened her eyes and her face was drenched with tears. Her eyes looked at William closely in a daze thinking that she was still dreaming.

 

"Were you having a nightmare?” William said in a rare tenderness.

 

At that moment, she totally lost control of herself and she began to wail uncontrollably. This was the first time that she had cried so bitterly in front of William.

 

"It's okay now, Sherry” William assured her tenderly. His slender fingers gently patted on Sherry's trembling back. He didn't know what nightmare she just had but he knew what caused her to have the nightmare and why was she in an emotional breakdown!

 

Once again, she cried until she lost consciousness in William's embrace. But just before she fell asleep, she grasped tightly onto William's hands with all her strength as if she was desperate not to let go of his hand.