“If you like my daughter so much, then I trust you.” Despite saying this, Lydia didn’t reach for Natalie’s hand. Instead, she cried with glassy eyes and seemed intent on staying where she was.
Taking off her coat, Natalie said, in a trembling voice, “The wind is so strong up here. Are you cold? Here, take my coat.”
Suddenly, as Natalie was about to join Lydia on the edge of the roof, she heard a man shouting.
She turned around to see Brandon’s handsome face contorted with anger.
“Natalie!” Brandon stared at her in disbelief and said, “It’s dangerous out there. You could die! Please don’t mess about.”
“I just want to save Lydia. I don’t care about anything else.” Natalie pursed her lips before saying, in a serious tone, “Can you do me a favor? Please go and find her baby.”
“I’ve sent people to search the hospital,” Brandon said in a low voice. “We’ll find her soon.”
The door to the rooftop then flew open, and Sean ran in breathlessly.
“There were people pretending to be employees of the Larson Group that took away Lydia’s baby.”
The veins on Brandon’s forehead popped out in anger. He cursed in a low voice, “Find them and then we’ll deal with them in the severest way possible.”
“Okay, I’ll go and find them. I’m on it now.” Sean, shocked by Brandon’s reaction, ran off in search of the suspect.
Natalie knew it definitely wasn’t Brandon who had kidnapped the baby, but she also knew that Lydia was so agitated she could do something stupid and dangerous at any time.
If she really fell off the building, the consequences would be unimaginable.
If anything happened to Lydia, the Larson Group would never be proved innocent. Taking a deep breath, Natalie shook off Brandon’s hand and said, “It’s okay. Trust me. I can get her down safely.”
Natalie braced herself, and walked away from Brandon towards Lydia.
As she walked into the cold, piercing wind on the rooftop, it blew her hair behind her ears. She had to be careful. One stupid move could tip Lydia over the edge, hopefully not literally; Lydia was extremely nervous at the moment.
Natalie had never felt such fear as she did standing at the edge of the rooftop. She had always been a little afraid of heights. And this height would make anyb*ody feel dizzy.
Gritting her teeth, Natalie climbed to the edge of the roof and threw her coat around Lydia. Natalie tried to raise a smile, as she said, “Come on, we’ll get down together, okay?”
Lydia didn’t say anything, just shifted further along the edge.
Startled by her sudden movement, Natalie pleaded with her, “Please, come down with me. Your baby will start crying again without her mother.”
“Baby… My baby… You have to bring my baby to me. If she can’t find me, she’ll cry…” It was obvious to Natalie that Lydia was in a trance, she was just repeating things back and forth incoherently.
“If you come down, then you can see your baby. Think about it. It’s too dangerous to bring the baby up here to the rooftop. Besides, it’s freezing up here. What if she gets cold?” Rubbing her shoulders, Natalie shivered with cold, looking jealously at her coat wrapping Lydia up tight and warm.
Lydia nodded, agreeing with Natalie, who helped her to slowly walk back from the edge of the rooftop.
Everyone was relieved to see that Natalie’s comforting words seemed to have done the trick.
However, as Lydia began to step back to safety, she suddenly turned her head, looking down in a daze. She grabbed hold of Natalie urgently, saying, “Natalie, I can hear my baby calling me!”
Natalie couldn’t hear anything. She knew that Lydia was imagining things.
“No, the baby is in the hospital, indoors, not up here.”
Natalie forced a smile, hiding her fear. Again, she calmly tried to convince Lydia to step back from the edge.
Lydia couldn’t help but keep looking down. Suddenly, she pushed Natalie away, running back to the edge of the rooftop, trying to jump down. “Mommy is coming, baby. Don’t cry, please don’t cry…”
Natalie fell to the ground. She tried to get to her feet in time to catch Lydia.
Lydia fell from the edge, her whole b*ody hung in the air. Natalie was clinging to just one of her hands, as Lydia carried on murmuring about her baby, i
Gritting her teeth, Natalie clung onto the rusty fence with her free hand and shouted to the rest of the people gathered there, “Help! I can’t do this on my own! I can’t hold on for long.”
No one expected Lydia to jump off the building like that, so suddenly, after it looked like Natalie had talked her down. Everybody was frozen in place with shock.
Although Natalie had a hold of Lydia, it was only by one hand, and she did not have such a firm grip as she would like. She couldn’t use her other hand to help, as Lydia’s weight would pull her down with her. She could feel Lydia’s fingers were slowly sliding between hers. Danger was imminent.
Brandon was the first to rush over and try desperately to pull Lydia up with Natalie.
Luckily, the nurses and doctors there reacted quickly, rushing up to help, and they all worked together helping Brandon and Natalie pull Lydia back up over the edge.
Eventually, they got her back up and Lydia was safe. She huddled up in a corner, still wrapped in Natalie’s coat. She must have been terrified.
“It’s okay. We’re safe now. We’re safe.” Exhausted, Natalie was so focused on comforting Lydia that she hadn’t even noticed she was shaking herself.
Lydia was still in a state of shock, and her teeth were chattering. She curled up in a ball, arms wrapped around her legs, and burst into tears.
Natalie was just about to lean in and comfort Lydia, when she heard the voice of baby crying. She looked towards the stairs.
New Book: Beginning with a Daring Encounter
Celsie was tired of being labeled as an introvert, workaholic, and dull virgin by her friends. Determined to prove them wrong, she made a bet that she would do something daring on her 25th birthday. Now that the day had arrived, it was time to fulfill her promise. On her daring to-do list, there was one task: a one-night stand with someone.
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