Fate played a cruel joke on him.
Grief, disbelief, anger, shock—various emotions swirled around his heart, almost suffocating him.
This Meredith Ford wasn't the daughter he had with Pearl, so where had the baby he yearned for so long gone?
He even had a name ready, calling her Annie, but he hadn't had the chance to see her before she disappeared...
What had happened during the time he was unconscious?
He slapped himself hard, wishing he could jump off the company rooftop.
He thought so, and indeed prepared to do so, standing on the rooftop for over an hour, smoking an entire pack of cigarettes.
In the end, he descended from the rooftop.
Before finding out where his daughter went, how could he casually end his life?
What would happen to his daughter, what about Pearl?
And that lunatic Cynthia Morgan, who knows what she'll do next?
Pearl's depression hadn't yet healed; she was still in a state where she might suddenly fall into suicidal relapse.
