Seraphina made it out the door, turned the corner, and let out a shallow breath. She pulled out her phone to start mapping her route.
The second the screen lit up, another anonymous message appeared.
Seraphina's heart skipped a beat. Without a second thought, she quickly tapped it open.
The message was just a few lines of text, accompanied by a photo.
The picture showed a pile of rocks deep in a valley, with a fragment of white bone sticking out.
The text below read: This is Riley Robbins. Found in the valley near the border. Hands and feet were bound, body scavenged by wild animals. Only partial skeletal remains are left.
Seraphina's legs gave out, and she slumped against the wall, nearly dropping her crutches.
She stared at the photo, a wave of nausea churning in her stomach.
Riley... was dead?
A woman she had never even met, merely a name in a file, had died so silently in the remote mountains along the border.
Who were these people? To be so unimaginably cruel to a completely innocent bystander.
Then what about Lily?
A five-year-old child in the hands of monsters...
Seraphina didn't dare think any further. Her chest seized with agony, making it difficult to even breathe.
But she knew she couldn't collapse now.
Leaning against the wall, she forced herself to take several deep breaths, only straightening up once the dizzy spell had passed.
No matter what, she had to get there immediately.
She picked up her phone again and opened a flight booking app.
But the earliest commercial flight was over three hours away.
She couldn't wait that long.
She gripped her phone, her mind racing, and suddenly remembered The Lockwood family had a private jet.
As much as she loathed speaking another word to Dominic, this was no time to be petty.
She pulled up Dominic's number and hit dial.
The phone rang a few times before connecting.
But the voice on the other end wasn't Dominic's.


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The readers' comments on the novel: Unloved Unwanted Unstoppable (Seraphina and Dominic)
Dominic is an idiot, stupid, foolish and brainless, Cynthia is the worst kind out there always getting saved by stupid Dominic...
Cynthia needs to be dealt with, she has caused too much trouble already!...
Dominic is such a fool, he doesn't seem to be able to think for himself. He believes what other people say without question....