Chapter 308

Screams pierced the air, followed by the sound of frantic footsteps growing louder by the second. Realizing something was wrong, Tristan and Megan hastily threw on their clothes. As they flung open the door, thick, billowing smoke rushed in—fire had broken out. Their first instinct was to check on Ethan in the adjacent room, but when they burst inside, the boy was nowhere to be found. "Ethan?" "Ethan, where are you?" Tears welled up instantly in Megan's eyes. Ethan was her whole world. She had failed to protect him. Where could he have gone? Tristan steadied her with a firm grip on her shoulders. "Stay calm. I'll search for him. You pull up the security footage and track his movements. We'll stay in touch by phone." Without hesitation, Megan disabled the firewall. A flood of delayed notifications bombarded her screen, but she ignored them all, diving straight into the hotel's surveillance system. To her shock, the security footage had been wiped—and the method used was identical to her