Chapter 893
Michael, who had been given a fright, sweated profusely. Sweat trickled down his face as he exined,
“Celie, this is your son. He is just here to see you. Don’t worry; we won’t do anything reckless.”
Seeing that Carmen was sobbing, Michael immediately coaxed her to prevent her from agitating Celine.
“Carmen, we’ve started filming, so you have to be a good girl. You can’t cry now. I’m going to start saying
my lines now.”
As a hardworking and diligent actor, Carmen tried her best to hold back her sobs, but tears kept
streaming down her cheeks out of fear when she was in Celine’s arm.
The ck gun was aimed at her messy little head, and one of the small flowers pinned on her hair had
fallen off. Michael’s eyes widened, for fear that the gun would go off.
At that moment, Nathan suddenly took two steps forward. “Take me instead.”
Celine roared as she raised her hand. Bang! She shot at the floor inches away in front of Nathan’s feet,
causing Carmen to tremble in fear, but she still forced herself to suppress her cries.
The gunshot rmed the people downstairs. Cooper’s flustered voice was heard from the walkie-talkie
brought by Justin. “What happened?”
Justin replied, “Nothing’s wrong. Don’t make any move. We can resolve this.”
Nathan looked at the bullet hole next to his feet in a daze, his expression still numb. Michael quickly
pulled him back and said to Celine, “Stay calm! Stay calm! He’s just a child who doesn’t know what he’s
doing! I’ll take him away now!”
He hurriedly dragged Nathan to the staircase and dashed down the stairs.
Wiping the sweat on his face, Micheal realized that his legs were trembling, as if every step he took
landed on cotton.
Nathan, who was following behind him, suddenly asked, “Will you guys kill her?”
Michael’s footsteps came to a sudden halt. A secondter, he quickened his pace down the stairs
without replying.
On the tenth floor, Justin looked at Celine from afar, the tears in his eyes unconceble. Why does fate
refuse to leave us alone? Why do we have to be treated so cruelly?
Justin was petrified. He was terrified that Cooper would lose his patience and kill Celine, and at the same
time, he was terrified that Celine would lose her patience and hurt Carmen.
Celine finally calmed down and put Carmen at one side. She treated her own wounds while being wary
of Justin, who was coaxing Carmen lovingly. “Good girl, your daddy has gone to the neighboring film set,
but he will be back in a while. You need to sit down obediently. I’ve brought you some lollipops.”
Celine’s kick earlier caused the things brought by Justin to spill everywhere, and a few lollipops were
scattered all over the ce. Carmen cautiously nced at Celine before secretly picking up a lollipop
from the corner and putting it into her mouth.
After Celine finished bandaging her wounds, she took some syrup and leaned against the balcony to rest
while remaining vignt.
Justin’s eyes were filled with pain as he looked at her. He sat down as well, holding a walkie-talkie in his
hand to stay in contact with the people downstairs.
After Michael and Nathan reached the ground floor, the former was impassive when Cooper, Joel, and
Linus approached him and asked, “How did it go? What did she say?”
Michael answered, “I managed to keep the situation under control for now. She wants to leave Cethos.
She will release Carmen after she leaves the Cethos’ border.” He sounded especially helpless as he was
speaking.
The astute Celine knew what bargaining chip she should get hold of in exchange for the things she
wanted, and she had indeed selected the right one—having Carmen alone was enough to threaten
everyone.
The group of people gathered to figure out a way.
Joel was the first to raise an objection. “No, we can’t do that. That was what she said when she was in
the research center before this. She kidnapped the psychologist and escaped, but she still tried to kill the
hostage after she managed to escape! I won’t fall for the same trick twice!”
Cooper cast a vicious look at the tenth floor before dering, “Send drones tounch a precise attack
now! I can’t wait any longer!” Carmen is all I care for. As for Celine… Although I feel sorry for Mark, no
one isparable to my grandchild! I don’t mind being selfish!
Currently, Michael just remained quiet without saying anything. He sat at one side in dejection. His eyes
wandered around and found Sophia, who was also sitting at one side.
Sophia had a deadpan expression with fresh tears at the corner of her eyes as she wasforted by
Sarah, who had rushed over for her.
The two of them looked at each other from a distance. Though they were separated by the busy and
anxious crowd, they felt as if all the sound in the world had quietened down at that instant.
All they had in their eyes was each other as theymunicated soundlessly with their soul.
The current Michael was like a helpless child, drowning in despair.
On one side, he had his sister, whom he had always depended on, while on the other side was his
daughter, who was his whole world.
Now, he had to choose between the two of them—it was a choice that was too difficult to make.
He stared at Sophia impassively and finally moved away his gaze.
She looked nkly at him before raising her head to look at the tenth floor. Carmen was eating lollipops
up there. She tore open the wrappings and threw it down.
She raised her head and lowered it while tears escaped her eyes.
She then saw Nathan sitting next to Michael with his head leaned against thetter while he soundlessly
wiped away his tears.
Michael seemed to be consoling a sobbing Nathan in a low voice as thetter wiped away his tears and
looked at everyone around with his eyes reddened. He not only had tears in his eyes, but also hatred
and hope.
Sophia heard their arrangements—they were definitely not going to let Celine go because Carmen would
not survive if she escaped.
Their priority now was to keep her under control to buy them time to arrange for more people to go and
save Carmen.
However, it would not be easy to save Carmen from Celine!
The situation was intense. All sorts of weapons had been secretly moved to the scene.
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Sophia stroked her face and realized that it had be cold and numb after her tear-soaked face was
air-dried by wind. When she was taking a sip of water, an idea crossed her mind, which caused her to
immediately stand up and hurry to the people who were nning for the rescue. “I have an idea!”
Everyone raised their heads and looked at her as she said to Linus, “Uncle Linus, you must still have
Quinton’s contact details, right? If we are able to find him, he certainly will have a way, since Katrina
listens to him!”
It suddenly dawned on them that Quinton would definitely have a way to resolve this since Katrina was a
personality created by Quinton himself!
Everyone turned to Linus. As the ex-financial backer of Phantom Wolf, he must be able to contact
Quinton.
Unfortunately, Linus frowned and shook his head. “I’ve severed all ties with Phantom Wolf… Besides,
even if I were able to contact him, it wouldn’t bring any help. He is now far abroad, and everything would
be toote when he’de over. Moreover, he is not stupid, so he won’t walk right into the lion’s den.
Even if he woulde, who knows what he’d be here for? Who can guess what’s in Phantom Wolf’s
mind?”
After listening to Linus’ analysis, Sophia, who had initially gotten her hopes a little high, felt as if a bucket
of cold water was just poured on her, extinguishing all her hopes.
Quinton could note over since he was too far away. The Fletcher Family hated him so much that
they would kill him, so appearing now would be no different from throwing himself into a trap. Therefore,
it would be impossible for him to appear for the sake of a child.
Even if he came, who could guarantee that he would be able to save Carmen?