Mistaking a Magnate for a Male Escort novel Chapter 625

Bang! The tank collided with the jeep with such force that it was sent flying several yards away.

It flipped over in the air before landing in a heap of rubble on the ground. The remains of the jeep exploded in a ball of fire and dense, black smoke engulfing the street.

The impact caused the alarms of the parked cars along the street to erupt in shrill sirens.

All of a sudden, the street descended into chaos and noise.

“Mommy!” the children screamed tearfully. They attempted to run over to her where the jeep exploded but were restrained by the bodyguards.

Henry gaped in shock. He sat motionless in his wheelchair.

At that point, Zachary arrived. He, too, stood frozen in horror at the scene but sprang to action seconds later.

He sprinted recklessly to Charlotte. “Mr. Nacht—” a bodyguard said as he tried to restrain him but to no avail.

“Charlotte! Come back, wherever you are!” Zachary shouted like a deranged, grief-stricken beast.

“You said you were going to marry me and spend the rest of your life with me. You can’t just disappear like that. Come back!”

He searched the burning wreckage with his bare hands as if the flames had kept her hidden from sight. I must find her. I must…

Zachary paid no attention to his burning clothes or even his scorched arms. All that mattered was that he found her.

“Mommy, Mommy…” the children cried as they wriggled free of the bodyguards’ grasp. Together with their father, they ran around looking for Charlotte.

Their small figures shook with fear at the thought of losing their mother as they searched high and low for a trace of her.

They paid no heed to the monstrous blaze, nor heat and danger.

Henry remained in the car. The scene before him brought to his mind the memory from that night twenty years before…