Chapter 1576

The sky was already dark, the mountain vast and overgrown with thickets and wild grasses. Finding a missing person here was extremely challenging.

An hour later, everyone arrived as quickly as possible at a hospital near Mount Tuky. Lucas positioned himself at the entrance of the emergency room, his face drained of all color and etched with worry.

“Lucas! How is Belinda’s condition?” Johnson rushed forward, the first to voice the question that consumed them all.

“I don’t know yet,” Lucas replied, his voice trembling slightly.

“How did you manage to find Belinda?” Bethany inquired.

“We located her through the distinctive ringing of her phone,” Vincent explained with careful detail.

After receiving news of Belinda’s disappearance, Bethany had immediately proposed dividing their forces to cover more ground efficiently.

Vincent had first located Lucas and joined his search efforts, giving him complete knowledge of the unfolding events.

Vincent delivered his account with careful precision, describing how Lucas’s exceptionally sharp hearing had detected Belinda’s phone ringing through the mountain air.

They had combed the surrounding area methodically until they finally discovered Belinda’s unconscious form nestled within a thick bush at the bottom of a steep slope.

Her forehead bore visible injury marks, suggesting she had hit something solid during her fall, causing her to lose consciousness.

Vincent vividly remembered Lucas’s expression when he had found Belinda, a complex mixture of overwhelming relief and profound gratitude.

It was not an exaggeration to say that he had even seen tears welling in Lucas’s eyes.

Lucas carefully lifted Belinda into his arms, and they climbed back up the slope.

After that, he carried Belinda down the mountain the entire way.

In his frantic haste, he nearly stumbled multiple times.

Vincent offered to share the burden, but Lucas refused every suggestion, maintaining his protective hold on Belinda.

Even after settling Belinda safely in Vincent’s car, Lucas never released his grip on her, not even for a single moment.

After Vincent concluded his detailed recounting, Bethany suddenly posed a chilling question that hung in the air like a dark cloud. “Did Belinda accidentally tumble down that slope, or did someone push her?”

Bethany’s words hung in the air like a dark cloud, and for a brief, suffocating moment, silence blanketed the corridor outside the emergency room.

Someone might have pushed Belinda?

That couldn’t possibly be true, could it?

“No, that can’t be right. Who would do something like that to Belinda?” Catherine was the first to break the silence, though her voice lacked conviction. Her eyes, too, betrayed the creeping doubt settling in her heart.

Bethany pressed her lips into a thin line for a second, her expression unreadable. “I’m just guessing here,” she said. “Belinda’s always careful. She couldn’t have accidentally fallen down the slope like that.”