Chapter 140 Penelope was burned beyond recognition.

The engagement ceremony of the youngest son of the Spencer family and the eldest daughter of the Hilliard family was a rare event in Sea City.

At the engagement banquet, the upper class gathered, with distinguished guests filling the seats. Even the wedding ceremonies of ordinary tycoons were not as grand as this.

Lola wore a bright red cheongsam today. The cheongsam was not overly adorned, only featuring a golden phoenix embroidered with gold thread. It was well-tailored, making her look even more noble and elegant, exuding an air of grace and grandeur.

Lola, arm in arm with Zackary, gracefully entered the banquet hall. On her face was the most genuine and radiant smile, and in her eyes and brows, there was an undeniable joy.

But on the face of the man beside her, there was not a trace of joy. He was solemn and indifferent, as if he was attending someone's funeral.

Lyman had attended their engagement party, but he couldn't even bother to congratulate Zackary.

Although Lola was his biological sister, he truly believed that Zackary must have been blind to have taken a liking to her.

What's there to congratulate about a blind man and a woman with ill intentions coming together!

Dalton deeply loved Chelsea, and naturally cherished the precious daughter she had given birth to for him.

Seeing Lyman looking so upset at his beloved daughter's wedding, Dalton felt extremely uncomfortable deep down.

He dragged Lyman into the upstairs lounge and gave him a good scolding.

Lyman seemed to be flippant, but in reality, he was most afraid of his own father. When he was being scolded by Dalton, he didn't dare to breathe loudly, let alone have his phone on anything but silent mode.

After being beaten and scolded enough by Dalton, he was finally able to escape from the sight of his cruel father.

As soon as he got downstairs, Lyman took out his phone, wanting to check the time.

Unexpectedly, the phone screen showed that there were five or six missed calls.

And all these calls were made by Penelope.

Thinking of Penelope finally waking up, the gloom on Lyman's baby face was swept away, replaced by full of joy.

He quickly tapped on his phone screen, calling Penelope.

"Sorry, the number you dialed was temporarily unavailable. Sorry..."

Lyman had made several calls to Penelope, and all that came through the phone was this mechanical female voice.

As if having a telepathic connection, repeatedly listening to this voice, a very bad premonition suddenly arose in Lyman's heart.

He could no longer bear to stay at Zackary and Penelope's engagement party. Ignoring the risk of being beaten up by his own father, he went upstairs to the lounge to find his car keys.

When he was just beaten by Dalton, it seemed that he had left his car keys upstairs. However, after searching around the upstairs lounge, he couldn't find his car keys.

Coincidentally, when he rushed out of the lounge, he actually ran into one of the day's main characters, Zackary, in the hallway outside.

Lyman was in a hurry to find Penelope, he didn't even have time to be angry with Zackary. He quickly grabbed his arm, "Zackary, lend me your car keys!"

"Where to?" Intuition told Zackary that Lyman was asking for the car keys to go find Penelope. He subconsciously resisted this idea, so he didn't lend them so readily.

"I need to find Penelope!" Lyman was frantic, "I couldn't reach Penelope on the phone, I'm worried."

Couldn't get through on the phone?

A pang of unease struck Zackary's heart.

About half an hour ago, Penelope had called him and everything was fine. How could her phone be unreachable?

What tricks was this woman playing again?!

"I just came from Horse House, damn! There was a fire in one of the upper floors! The fire department had been fighting the fire for a long time, but it still hadn't been put out! I heard there were people in there, a woman was constantly calling for help from inside the apartment, oh, it was a terrible scene!"

A sound suddenly rang out at the stairway, upon hearing the words "Horse House", Zackary instinctively looked towards the direction of the stairway.

The speaker was Micah, a boss of a company.

Walking with Micah was Franklyn.

Franklyn was intrigued by Micah's words and quickly asked, "What happened to the woman in the end? Was she rescued by the firefighters?"

Micah sighed heavily again, "When I passed by there, they hadn't rescued her yet. I heard that the woman could have escaped from the apartment, but it seemed that her door was locked from the outside, so she didn't get out."

Just as Micah was about to say something else, his phone suddenly rang. He hurriedly answered the call, "Adam, how's the situation at Horse House? I've been keeping a close eye on it! Has the woman been rescued?"

"What? She wasn't rescued? She was burned to death?! Oh, I had a feeling that woman was doomed! Sigh, it's indeed tragic, she was completely charred!"

Listening to Micah talking on the phone with someone else, Zackary couldn't help but recall the phone call he had just made to Penelope.

She said on the phone, "Zack, I am about to die."

She also said, "Goodbye, Zack."

Horse House had a fire in the apartment, she just happened to live in Horse House. Moreover, she just said that she was about to die!

Where on earth could there be such a coincidence?!

Zackary was unwilling to believe the possibility that something might happen to Penelope, but his heart ached so much that he couldn't breathe.

He took out his phone and called Penelope, but after several attempts, all he heard was the mechanical female voice on the other end.

"Sorry, the number you dialed was temporarily unavailable."

"Old Zhao, did that woman really die?!"

"She's dead! Adam just said, that woman died a terrible death! Her whole body was burned, not a single part was spared! Well, with such a big fire, and being burned for so long, I guess even her own mother wouldn't recognize her!"

The voices of Micah and Franklyn were still ongoing, Zackary could no longer restrain the panic in his heart. He quickly stepped forward, fiercely grabbing Micah's collar.

"What did you just say was on fire?! Speak up!"

Micah joyfully attended Zackary's engagement party, never imagining that he would be treated this way by the host of the party.

He was dissatisfied, but more than that, he was afraid.

He spoke nervously, "Mr. Spencer, the place that caught fire was... was Horse House."

"Which building?!"

"It seemed... it seemed to be Building 8."

Zackary's body staggered violently, for a moment, he almost couldn't stand.

His voice trembling, he demanded, "Which apartment!"

At first, Lyman found Zackary's behavior somewhat strange. As he listened to his persistent questioning of Micah, the vague premonition in his heart grew increasingly stronger.

Penelope lived in Horse House.

He called her, but couldn't get through.

Seeing that Micah was not speaking, he was almost on the verge of breaking down, "Speak! Which apartment!"

Micah really didn't know how he had suddenly offended these two important figures. The sudden panic made his mind go blank for a moment.

After calming down for quite a while, Micah finally found his voice again.

"Which specific unit, which apartment, I don't know. I... I only knew, it seemed like... it seemed like the fire was on the sixth floor!"

Bang!

Zackary heard, his own heart plummeted heavily, and then, shattered into pieces, unable to be pieced back together no matter what.

Penelope, lived on the sixth floor!