Jessie jumped out of the car without even having time to close the door. She grabbed Violet's hand and asked about cloth.
Violet regretfully told her that cloth was gone.
Jessie clenched her fists unacceptably, "Gone?"
"Yeah." Violet nodded.
"That's millions!" Jessie yelled emotionally, and suddenly ran towards the warehouse, seeming not to believe what Violet said. She had to see it with her own eyes to give up.
Seeing this scene, Violet was shocked and hurriedly shouted, "Jessie, what are you doing? Come back soon!"
Jessie did not hear about it, stopped in front of the warehouse, and watched the fire in front of her, feeling collapsed.
The fire swallowed up all the cloth inside. It was efforts that she went to many cloth factories to get them.
Even some of them were very expensive and the output was very small. She drank with the senior executives of those cloth factories until the stomach cramped before they agreed to sell it to her. Now her efforts were all gone. How could she accept it!
Seeing Jessie not listening to her, Violet bit her lip and stomped her foot. Then she ran over, trying to pull Jessie back.
Although the warehouse was constructed of bricks and stones, in order to ensure the air permeability and prevent the cloth from damp, wood was used in many places, especially the roof brackets, which were almost built of wood. The fire was so big! The wood on the roof might fall, which was very dangerous.
But Jessie stood so close, it was hard to guarantee that she would not be injured by the falling wood.
Violet came to Jessie's side and looked at her red eyes, feeling very sad.
But no matter how sad she was, it wasn't the time to comfort Jessie at this moment. Violet held Jessie's hand and said, "Jessie, shall we leave here first?"
Jessie turned her head to look at Violet with tears on her face. There was uncontrollable grief and anger in her voice, "Violet, why? Why do we encounter this kind of thing every time?"
"This..." Just as Violet was about to speak, she suddenly heard a squeak and looked up.
A beam of the warehouse suddenly broke, and it was falling diagonally downward.
But they just stood diagonally below.
"Dangerous!" Violet was shocked suddenly. Without thinking too much, she pushed Jessie out.
Jessie was pushed to the ground not far away and hissed.
But she didn't care about her injured arm, and quickly got up from the ground to look at Violet.
Seeing that beam was going to hit Violet's head, Jessie’s face changed drastically. She hurriedly shouted, "Violet, run!"
Violet wanted to run away, but she couldn't move at all. When she just pushed Jessie, her feet sprained. At this moment, it hurt badly. She couldn't even move.
She could only watch the beam getting closer and closer to her. Besides, she could feel the raging heat and the thick smoke coming to her face.
Violet's eyes were red with smoke, and tears kept falling. She closed her eyes in despair and waited for death to come.
However, at this moment, Violet suddenly felt a pair of arms hugged her, leading her to roll on the ground.
The moment they got out, the beam also hit the place where Violet had just stood, making thud. A few sparks spattered, but the fire did not go out and it was still burning.
Violet opened her eyes as early as the moment she was hugged. Instead of looking at the beam, she raised her head and stared at the man on her body in a daze.
She did not expect that he suddenly appeared here and saved her.
"You..." Violet opened her mouth, just about to say something.
Jessie ran over and lifted Stanley who was pressing on Violet, helped her up, and kept looking up and down, "Violet, are you okay?"
Violet shook her head in shock, "I'm fine. Just my ankle sprained, but Mr. Murphy..."
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