Chapter 421 Parting Ways (Part Five) (1/2)

A loud clunk suddenly interrupted their conversation.

The mobile phone made a clunking sound as it hit the ground. Molly stared ahead unseeingly. She couldn't seem to stop shaking and her heart felt as if it would explode in any minute. Her breathing became labored and her eyes began to fill up with hot tears. She felt as if the sky was about to fall down on her. How could this be?

Bri had said that her Mom and Dad had left together? How could he lie to her like this?' Molly thought in despair.

Becky looked at Molly's stricken face and smiled. She had no idea what Mayor Gu told Molly to make her look like that. Whatever it was, it could only be something bad!

Molly didn't know how she got back to the ward. She just sat there as if turned to stone. She looked as if her soul had been snatched away.

When Dr. He came to the ward to check her eyes, he was startled by her distraught appearance. ”Miss Xia, Miss Xia?”

Molly slowly turned her dazed eyes to look at the doctor. After a while she said, ”Dr. He, can I borrow your phone?”

Dr. He frowned at her unsettling appearance. She was acting mechanically like a zombie. He gave her the phone worriedly.

Molly took the phone and quickly dialed Brian's number. Her thumb paused on the send button for a long time. She stayed like that for some time. She looked at the number that she had dialed. 'How could she remember his number so clearly?' she asked herself self-deprecatingly.

She sniffed and finally pressed the send button. She raised the phone near her ear. However, the phone that used to be accessible twenty-four hours a day was suddenly unreachable and her call transferred into voice mail.

Molly suddenly became crazy. She kept dialing furiously, again and again. But there was always that mechanical and impersonal voice…

”Miss Xia.” Dr. He didn't know what had happened. She was all