Fire?
While Joe was happily waiting for his son-in-law to visit, he suddenly saw billows of smoke rising from the second floor. Then, Faye and Xyla ran outside anxiously from Faye’s room.
“Dad, the second floor is on fire!”
Joe glanced at the second floor. A trail of fire traveled down the staircase.
Since most of their belongings were already moved out, there were only a few old magazines and furniture left—nothing to be missed.
In no time, Joe, Faye, Xyla, and their servants had all run out of the mansion. They stood in the garden, looking helplessly at the smoke coming out of the room.
Suddenly, Joe slapped his thighs. “Oh, God. My youngest daughter is still inside!”
They had locked Sophia and her two bodyguards in the room on the third floor! The door and windows were both tightly shut. How would they be able to escape?
When everyone ran out of the mansion that was on fire just now, they had completely forgotten about the three people in the room.
Everyone raised their head subconsciously to look at the third floor. Smoke had started escaping from the locked window.
“Save them!” Joe quickly pushed people to save the fire.
She’s my cash cow!
If my son-in-law arrives and sees a burnt corpse, there’d be nothing we could do anymore!
What if he flares up and vents his anger at me?
A few bodyguards quickly rushed to open the door. However, once they opened the door of the mansion, fire burst out from within with a whoosh. It burned the bodyguards until they retreated immediately.
“Mr. Edwards, the fire is too strong! We can’t enter!”
“Call the fire brigade to put out the fire!” Joe was so scared that he almost peed his pants.
Everyone anxiously tried to douse the fire with water from the garden. However, it was not enough. The fire quickly gobbled up the entire mansion. Just like that, the Edwards’ ancestral home was destroyed.
Standing far away, Xyla was finally relieved after she saw fire breaking out completely in the room with locked windows on the third floor.
Sophia, you are not my match!
While everyone in the Edwards Family were frantically trying to douse the fire, nobody noticed that the car Sophia arrived in had slowly driven away.
Hale had a silenced gun with him, so the locks could not hold them in at all.
Before they entered the mansion, Gemma’s mini-drone had already finished examining the entire surroundings. Before the fire got out of control, they had already escaped from the backdoor used by the servants daily, which was connected to the garage.
On the way, they even saved the servant, who had fainted.
Firstly, they drove to the hospital as Sophia wanted to send the servant to the hospital. Before they left, the servant grabbed Sophia’s hand. “Your mom was a good person, just like you. I really regret bringing her to the Edwards Family…”
After paying for her medical bills, Sophia went home.
When they reached home, Michael had not returned yet. Recently, he went back to the filming crew to film some movies, so he would return late every night.
After Sophia finished her dinner, she sat in the study looking at her mother’s photo album. She flipped through each photograph in the album again and again.
Every photograph in the album was exquisite, like a modern photoshoot on the streets. Based on Annabel’s financial situation back then, she shouldn’t have had the money to hire a professional photographer with high-end equipment to take these photos.
So who took these pictures?
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