The Apple of My Eye novel Chapter 1806

Anne's voice seemed to be coming from a very faraway place, and Sheryl turned quickly to look at her. Her whole body was trembling, and her tears seemed to be falling from her eyes like a waterfall.

She grabbed Anne's arm hard and shook so hard that Anne felt like her own body was quivering too.

Anne had just recently met Sheryl and didn't know her well enough to know much about her. She just knew Sheryl as an elegant and gentlewoman. She wondered what in the world could have happened to reduce Sheryl to such a terrified state.

"It's Cha.. Charles! He fell into the sea... Save him!" Sheryl managed to force out a few words. She was crying so hard it was hard to make out what she was saying.

Luckily, Anne immediately understood what she meant. 'That person who just fell into the sea isn't just someone she knows, but someone she cares about very much.' Anne instantly connected the dots.

"Don't worry. The lifeguards are already searching for him. I'll call the police for help right now!" Anne continued to console the distraught Sheryl until she seemed calmer and trembled less. When she was certain than Sheryl was calmer, she took out her phone to call the police.

When she returned to Sheryl after finishing her call to police, Sheryl seemed as though she had lost her mind. She sat on the ground, rocking herself and murmuring to herself inaudibly.

Heaving a sigh, Anne sat with Sheryl and waited for the police to come.

Not long after, the police arrived.

"Did anyone call the police?" a policeman shouted to the crowd, trying to determine the emergency and who had called it in.

Anne glanced at Sheryl, but found that she didn't seem to notice the police had arrived. She got up and called out, "It was me!"

"What happened?" the policeman asked in a professional tone as he came over to them.

Anne seemed to be at a loss on what to answer. She rubbed her hands together anxiously and told him, "I'm not sure. Sheryl was the one who saw everything."

Following the finger pointed at Sheryl, the policeman squatted down in front of her and asked, "Are you Sheryl?"

"Y.. yes. That's me," Sheryl's lips were quivering so hard. It was hard for her to speak and even harder to understand her words.

The policeman noticed Sheryl's unstable mental state and immediately changed his tactic. He feared that if he spoke too loudly, she would slip back into a state of trauma and be unresponsive. It would greatly hinder the investigation if the only witness was in a catatonic state.

He waited for a few heartbeats and then asked gently, "Can you tell me what happened?"

"I… We were..." Sheryl's eyes started filling up with tears again. Her brain still couldn't process the situation of Charles falling into the sea. There was no way she could tell the policeman what had happened. Her brain just kept replaying the horrific scene over and over again.

She blamed herself for the whole incident. 'If only I hadn't gotten so agitated... If only I hadn't struggled so vigorously... If it weren't for me, Charles would still be standing here!' she thought.

As soon as that thought went through her mind, she lost control again. The tears welling up in her eyes turned into full-on crying. Crawling towards the policeman, she tugged desperately at his uniform and begged, "Please, please, help save Charles! I'm begging you, please, rescue him..."

As a policeman, he had dealt with his fair share of hysterical family members, so he knew how to deal with the scenario. He gently pushed Sheryl away and scanned the crowd, hoping someone else could shed more light on the situation.

Suddenly, a woman broke through the crowd and dashed towards him.

It was none other than Leila.