LOGINAfter thanking the officers, Louis checked the time—it was already half past nine.“Let’s head home. The temperature’s dropping; I don’t want anyone catching a cold.”Marcus stood still, muttering under his breath, “But Loraine’s favorite singer hasn’t even gone on yet…”Louis turned sharply toward
“He said he was thirsty, so I went to buy him a drink. I clearly told him not to move and when I got back, he was gone!”Loraine’s face went pale with worry. “Let’s look for him right now! I saw security guards and some police officers earlier. We can ask them for help!”The three of them forgot all
Mason, the quieter and more composed one, simply listened to the music, occasionally nodding along to the rhythm.The youngest, Manuel, was too short to see the stage at all, swallowed up by the crowd and left with nothing but the thundering music pounding in his ears.Before long, he got restless.
“Marcus, every time you sneak out, you use the same excuse,” Manuel said, crossing his arms. “Can’t you at least come up with something new?”Marcus froze. Loraine quickly jumped in with a smile. “Manuel, we really do have something serious to take care of this time. It’s boring stuff. You’d have w
“Raine, look, your fingers need to lift here, then drop cleanly. Watch my hand when I play.”In the Walker family’s grand music room, young Mason was patiently teaching Loraine how to play the piano.Sunlight streamed through the tall windows, half spilling over the glossy surface of the hundred-tho
Grace tried to lift her head, but she was too weak to manage even that small movement.A nurse quickly stepped forward and raised the head of the bed so that Grace only needed to lower her gaze to see the tiny baby in Laura’s arms.“A daughter… girls are so sweet,” Grace murmured, the words faint bu
“Alright,” Louis replied. As his gaze briefly met Laura’s, something unspoken passed between them, an understanding that needed no words.“Laura, don’t take too long!” Adora shot her a sharp look, her warning clear.She could see right through her friend’s little stunt to leave them alone on purpos
The first person to be questioned was Ruby.Back at the police station, it was Ruby who first claimed to have seen the missing persons report. She immediately called Lilian over to take a look. But Lilian had barely skimmed through it before catching words like HIV, pregnancy, childbirth, mentally
But no matter how much lighter the pain had become, cramps were always hard to endure. In the height of summer, Adora hadn’t even turned on the air conditioning. She was curled up with a hot water bottle in her arms. After taking a painkiller, the ache eased at first, and she drifted into a gro
Ever since the day at the hospital, when she'd suggested meeting up and been turned down, White-Coat Deity hadn’t shown up again.The Market Gods chat group still buzzed with activity every day. Elliot and Miles had both tagged him multiple times trying to pull him back into the conversation, but







