The Unwavering Heart That Broke (Nathalie and Lance) novel Chapter 7780

Chapter 780

“Ms. White?! Ms. White!”

Chapter 780

Staff and security scrambled blindly through the suite. The chemical white powder from the fire extinguishers clashed violently with the toxic black smoke billowing from the blaze.

Visibility was practically zero. They couldn’t see a foot in front of their faces, let alone find a missing woman.

While the chaos raged, a small figure peeled away from the shadows in the corner. Hugging the wall, Damaris slipped right out the open doorway into the chaotic hallway, finally doubling over to hack up the smoke clogging her lungs.

She had nearly suffocated in there!

Wiping the soot off her face and further tangling her hair to look the part of a panicked maid, she sprinted toward the back stairwell.

With every single person on the payroll distracted by the fire and the manhunt, the entire mansion was completely defenseless!

Without a second’s hesitation, Damaris bolted out the side doors into the gardens. This was her only chance to figure out what was hiding in those woods, and why Lawrence was so terrified of her finding it.

‘Hey! There’s a code red in the west wing! Why aren’t you up there?”

A stray guard sprinting past suddenly yelled out at her.

In the dark, all he saw was a uniform, assuming she was just another terrified maid.

Damaris pitched her voice high and frantic. “Ms. White is missing! They sent me out here to search the grounds!”

The guard’s eyes widened in horror. “I’ll help you look.”

Damaris’s heart plummeted. She couldn’t let him shadow her-it would ruin everything!

“You check the east perimeter!” She pointed in the exact opposite direction. “We need to split up to cover more ground.”

“Good call.” Not suspecting a thing, the guard turned and sprinted off into the darkness.

Dar

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let out a shaky exhale, immediately turning on her heel and deeper into the sprawling gardens.

door lighting was sparse back here. And with the entire staff ed around the burning master suite, the heavily guarded

ted zone was entirely deserted.

Saint, chaotic screams from the mansion faded into the background she sprinted straight into the dense treeline.

he had missed the hidden entrance the last time, which meant she just had to look harder.

She zeroed in on the ordinary-looking gazebo. Circling around to the very back of it, her foot caught the edge of a severely overgrown dirt path. She pushed through the heavy brush until a massive, reinforced steel door came into view, practically camouflaged into the hillside. It was an entrance to a subterranean bunker.

She knew it!

Damaris’s eyes widened, her heart hammering wildly against her ribs. Taking a deep breath, she grabbed the heavy handle and hauled the door

open.

It revealed a pitch-black, concrete stairwell descending into the earth.

Swallowi

stairs

or in her throat, she crept cautiously down the

ent, her path was blocked by a second

Chapter 780

reinforced door. This one had a heavy-duty electronic keypad.

Damaris stared blankly at the glowing numbers. How the hell was she supposed to get past this?`-

She didn’t know the first thing about his passcodes!

Gripping the railing, she pressed her face as close to the slit in the door

she could, peering into the gloom. After a second’s hesitation, she

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