Joaquin’s anxious voice came through the phone. “What happened?”
She mustered all her strength and said into the phone, “Someone is burning charcoal in my room. The whole place is sealed off. Terry isn’t answering his phone, and no one is responding when I bang on the door. I feel terrible, Joaquin…”
At that moment, inside a hotel owned by the Bowman Group.
Joaquin suddenly stood up from the sofa, his hand gripping the phone so tightly it trembled for a moment.
Erick, who was sitting beside him, also quickly stood up.
“Don’t worry, I’ll be there right away.”
After hanging up, the man grabbed his coat and car keys and hurried toward the door.
“Mr. Bowman, what happened?”
Erick also got up and walked toward the door, curiosity flashing in his eyes.
After entering the corridor, Joaquin turned and looked at him. “Didn’t I tell you to have someone follow Romina? Where is that person?”
Erick was momentarily stunned. “Mr. Bowman, didn’t we run into a thug this evening? I sent the person protecting Ms. Sandoval back to Straland first.”
Joaquin’s face turned extremely grim, and his pace quickened considerably.
Erick pressed further, “Did something happen to Ms. Sandoval?”
Joaquin kept it brief, repeating what Romina had just told him.
After hearing this, Erick’s pupils widened in shock.
It was already past midnight. They had originally planned to rest, but had been called to an emergency remote meeting, so Joaquin had woken him up to work.
If it hadn’t been for that meeting, they probably would have already gone to bed.
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Joaquin might not have been able to answer Romina’s call….
The cold wind howled louder and louder outside the window.
Romina used the last of her strength to pound on the door.
Finally, there was some movement from the room next door.
“Mimi, what’s wrong? Did something happen?”
Suddenly, Terry’s voice came from the corridor outside.
Romina, as if grabbing onto her last lifeline, said weakly, “Terry, help me…”
From the corridor outside, Terry immediately saw that the door to the next room had been locked shut.
Only after getting closer did they smell the strong scent of coal.
Terry was instantly wide awake, quickly kicking at the door. “Mimi, hold on a little longer!”
Romina’s breathing grew weaker and weaker, until she finally lost consciousness.
“Mimi, Mimi…”
No matter how he called out, there was no response from inside.
A wave of tension surged up in an instant.
The force of his kicks against the door suddenly increased.
On the sixth kick, the door finally burst open, and a thick cloud of smoke rushed out to meet
him.
Terry saw Romina lying on the ground, and the string in his heart tightened even more.
He rushed over and quickly carried her out.
He reached out to check her philtrum; there was still faint breathing. She needed immediate first aid, but after coal poisoning, only conventional medicine could quickly relieve her symptoms, while naturopathy was merely supplementary.
Terry carried her to the open yard and immediately dialed the emergency number.
After informing the medical staff of the situation, he quietly waited for their arrival.
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He kept a close eye on her, unable to sit still.
Ten minutes later, hurried footsteps suddenly sounded outside the door.
Terry didn’t hear the sound of an ambulance and worried that the culprit had returned, so he walked toward the door with a wary gaze.
Peeking through the crack in the door, he was momentarily stunned by the sight outside.
It was Joaquin and his assistant who had arrived.
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