Whitney clutched her chest, struggling to find an excuse, "I just feel like he came tonight because of me. I feel so guilty. If he hadn't come for me, he wouldn't have walked into the greenhouse and... and been killed in that explosion, right?"
She looked at Shane, bewildered. The once untouchable golden boy of Harmonia Country, gone just like that.
He was such a revered figure, to think he'd die in an explosion was unbelievable.
There had to be something more to that explosion...
Shane didn't know how to comfort Whitney. Clearly, she was devastated, still in denial.
Nearby, Ronan and his wife were falling apart, his wife sobbing uncontrollably, lashing out in anger, "How could this happen in Mr. Wilson's home?
Mr. Wilson, didn't you check the safety of this mansion when you bought it?
My poor daughter, attending a party for the first time after coming back from abroad, and this happens. How can I bear this?
Honey, you have to avenge our poor girl!"
Ronan was also visibly shaken, his face a mix of anger and sorrow.
Phineas looked at them with immense guilt. Ronan was a close political ally. How could he explain this tragedy?
Everyone watched anxiously as firefighters pried open the glass doors of the greenhouse, and a team of paramedics rushed in.
As the smoke cleared from the ruined greenhouse, everyone waited with bated breath.
"Daddy, I'm here..." Suddenly, a voice cried out from behind them.
Ronan and his wife froze, then turned around sharply—
There stood a young woman in her twenties, disheveled and covered in soot, her once elegant blue gown torn and draped with a man's black jacket for modesty.
Beside her stood a tall, striking man. Though his suit jacket was gone, leaving him in a dirtied white shirt, his disheveled appearance couldn't hide his aura of nonchalant pride.
Whitney's eyes widened in disbelief.
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